Weather Station Details, 

 Weather Cam Pictures & Links

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This is the view from my house looking to the NNW. The picture is taken using a security camera purchased from RF Concepts  this connects to a capture card in the PC then uses Webcam 32 software to upload the pictures every 3 minutes via a broadband connection. There is also a streaming JavaCam version of the picture via the link above. The weather station itself is a Davis Vantage Pro Plus purchased from Weather Instrument Mart. This consists of a roof mounted anemometer and wind direction vane linked via cable to an Integrated Sensor Suite (ISS) in the garden. The ISS is made up of a rain gauge, thermometer, barometer, UV sensor and solar radiation sensor, this then sends the data to a console in the house via a radio signal.

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The console is linked to the PC which uses Ambients Virtual Weather Station (VWS) software to interpret, store, display the data on the PC and to convert the data into JPEGs which are uploaded to the web every hour. There is an add on to VWS that displays data in real time called WeatherFlash this uses Macromedia Flash technology to display the real time information.

Below are a number of links that I have found to be useful and interesting click on them and enjoy.

Online Copies of Chesterton Gossip From Issue #1

Link to home X10 Home Automation Web Page (Authorized access only)

Prodata's link to a list of UK weather stations and equipment supplier.

A local weather station a few miles away in Weston Coyney Stoke on Trent.

Weather station in Salford UK, giving a brief tutorial on using VWS.

Puffin weather, site with loads of links.

College weather site. Radley College, Abingdon, Oxon, UK

Morecambe Weather, Tim Wests Site, creator of the WeatherFlash software real time station

Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence site, SETI (contributor to search)

Roger Brugge's weather page, top UK site for weather information

German weather site with international links

Not sure what all those weather terms & words mean? Then click here for an explanation

Newcastle-under-Lyme Staffordshire UK Climate Statistics

Middleport. A local community site.

Peter Selden's weather site, an up and coming young web page designer. Give him a visit.