Ray's Weather Station

The information available from my station is, current  weather conditions at my location (Chatham, Kent. UK) which is updated every 15 minutes.

Live weather is also available (as above) which is updated every 5 seconds.

There is more detailed information of my weather data from an external source which converts the data I forward to them.

The equipment used at my weather station is the Davis Pro Wireless which consists of.......an anemometer mounted approx. 30ft above the ground which gives recorded wind speed, wind gusts, average wind speed, wind direction and average wind direction. Below the anemometer is the rain gauge approx.12ft above the ground this records the rainfall. hourly rain rate, daily rain rate and total rain for 24 hrs. Fixed to the side of the rain gauge is the temperature sensor which gives the high/low/average temperature over the last 24 hrs/month/year. All that information is relayed via radio waves to the main consul which is in my radio radio shack. Being a radio ham I have to position the consul so that transmissions from my radios do not interfere with the weather station transmissions. There is also barometric pressure, humidity, dew point and wind chill factor presented on the consul and recorded. The weather consul is connected to the computer via a serial cable and data is transferred to the computer and is decoded by software (Virtual Weather Station) and stored a tabular data which is retrievable.

              Current Weather                                                                                 Live Weather

                   (updated every 5 mins)                                                                         (Updated every 5 secs)

                                                           Chatham Weather