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Budgie

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  1. That's why I need to move mine, the wife made 6.5mm of rain last week when she was digging the garden where the raingauge is!! I told her about it and she said "Oh yah, I was knocking the shoval against the post to clean the mud off it"!!
  2. Sorry for the late reply, been making weather avatars & banners for Denmark since I got home. That looks OK for the rain gauge, I take it the back of the house faces South then? If you get as much distance between the back of the house & the gauge as possible then you shouldn't get too much of a rain shadow from the house in a Northerly. All you can do is see how it goes, these things are always a bit of a compromise anyway and you've just got to do the best you can with what you have.
  3. I'm still at work and the servers here block anything on Image Shack or Photo Bucket so I'll have to wait until I get home to see the map. What you need is somewhere that is in open ground with no, or very, little wind shaddow. I need to move mine as the house blocks some of the rain from the gauge when we have a Westerly blowing. So you want a position where the wind will hit it from any direction. For the amount of time we have winds from the North then you can afford a little shaddow from that direction. I'll have a look at the map at arounf 9pm when I get home, have got the compass directions on it or can you describe where North is on the map for me?
  4. Hi All, This week I added a new bit of kit to my growing collection of sensors that feed the weather station. A Hobby Boards Solar Sensor arrived from the U.S. and is now on the roof and reporting nicely. It still needs a bit of fine tuning to get it just right but it's recording the solar radiation, sunshine hours and, best of all, it's giving a much more accurate report of the current conditions. You can see the output from it on my Live Weather page, just click in the text area below the solar gauge and it'll open a 24 hour graph. All in all I'm quite pleased the it and as I had a 1-Wire system setup already then it was just a case of plugging in the new sensor and configuring Weather Display to read it. Photo to follow.
  5. I would have thought that if the cover was allowing the bucket to tip then it shouldn't have made any difference. The only way it would affect the reading is if the cover wasn't dropping the collected rain directly into the buckets and allowing some to miss the buckets, then your readings would be off. The WS3600 rain gauge is different to the WS2300 that I have as I can't put the cover on the wrong way round.
  6. Typical, good aurora and we've got total cloud cover. NOAA has it showing South of the 60° North line, over Northern Scotland as well.
  7. Yep, I saw the FIVE one, and it starts on Tuesday 25th at 10pm on Discovery Channel if anyone missed the one on FIVE.
  8. Check that the fan is still going round, if so then it could be the magnet that registers the rotation of the fan. Do reset of the base unit and maybe a complet batteries out shut-down of the base & sensor units. Also check the cable to the anemometer, if there are any loose area in the cable then look for damage from the cable being rubbed against the wall.
  9. Good stuff, see how it goes this week and enjoy the faster updated wind data.
  10. I don't think they are armed as they are not military, they are a government agency that protects the UK fleets and fish stocks. They check that vessels fishing in UK territorial waters are using the correct gear, they don't over fish the area and that the vessels and logs are up to code. Both of them were on our (Coastguard) AIS all day yesterday & the Muirneag managed to get into the harbour at around 5pm yesterday. She was dodging outside the harbour waiting for the wind to ease as I don't think she has a bow thruster which makes it difficult to berth with the cross winds they had yesterday.
  11. You can keep that sort of speed, although I know someone not too far away from me that wouldn't agree, would you Cookie!! :o Calmed down up here now, average of 25 knots and the sleety squallys we had earlier seem to have passed through.
  12. What do mean by cheap Cookie? You can get a full weather station starting from about £80, but you get you what you pay for!! The one I have is a La Crosse WS2300 which is a cheap setup but, apart from the anemometer packing up twice, has been good in the 4 years I've had it. I would recommend going for the upgraded cup type anemometer with this one though. The anemomenter I have on the roof was about £60 from the US and needs a PC to run it. This will give wind speed & direction, plus it has a built-in temperature sensor as well. You will need an adaptor to connect it to the PC though & these are about £28 each. For just the wind speed then there's the Inspeed Vortex anemometer which is very good and fast updating. You can get them with a serial interface instead of the readout that will connect to your PC and if you search around you can get them at around £50. It all depends on what you want it for and what setup you're looking for, will be connected to the PC or stand-alone? Will you get the bug and want more from it in the future? Think carefully before you buy as you could end up spending your money on something that'll need upgraded in 6 months time, when you could have spend an extra £50 and got a full station.
  13. You'll find my rain totals here: http://www.hebrides-photos.com/weather/raintotals.htm
  14. It can take a couple of days to update with some quakes as they check that the readings weren't caused by bomb disposal or a sonic boom before they put it up. The after shocks from 5.2 took 3 or 4 days before they were all on there. I'll have to take a closer look at the EMSC site, not had chance yet.
  15. Have a look around the BGS site that links from my Earthquake page: http://www.hebrides-photos.com/weather/earthquake.php The interactive map on there is quite good for showing UK earthquake locations and have a look under the Hazard heading and go to the Seismic Hazard in the UK for some small-ish maps.
  16. I use Weather Display to create and upload the data for my weather site, this can be setup to download the raw Metars from NOAA, convert them and create nice stickers for my site: I also have Inverness & Tiree on there.
  17. Hi Stew, Like I said, it can be seen that far south, further south sometimes. But we're just coming out of "solar minimum" at the moment (part of a 10 year solar cycle) when there are few sunspots and little solar activity so the chances of seeing anything that far south at the moment is quite slim. I've not seen one display this winter from up here and I'm looking north over a large sea loch. When there has been activity it's been cloudy up here so no photos yet. http://nwstatic.co.uk/forum/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/dry.gif There's always hopes for tonight though, we have high cirrus with some CU2 around but NOAA is saying the activity level just now is only level 3 (out of 10) so I hope it starts showing signs of doing something in the next few hours.
  18. I found their guide page explaining it: http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/guide/warnings.html
  19. You can easily run double the length of the standard length of wire for the connection if you want to run wired. The best cable is Cat5 but you can use normal telephone extention cable. If the telephone cable doesn't work initially then change the wiring on one end so it matches the other and it should work.
  20. Photos have been taken of it in Devon but how good it looks to the naked eye I don't know. We are in a quiet period just now so there's not much in the way of activity further south than about 60°N. http://nwstatic.co.uk/forum/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/ohmy.gif
  21. As I can't post an addition to John Holmes thread in the The Netweather Guides Area then I thought I'd post it here instead. I've found some good links that will enable you to find out the latest METAR & TAF data from airports throughout the UK. The one that has all the data, including METAR & decoded METAR, with history, is NOAA. Just select you airport and it will give you the latest data in both coded & decoded form on the same page. One of the easiest I found was on Weather Charts.org. Just select the airport you want from the list and click the button below. It will take you to the latest coded data on the NOAA site. This one also give you TAF 9hr & TAF 18hr as well. If you're interested in the ICAO codes then there's a full list of the ICAO codes for the UK airports at Alt.AIS including the position of the airport in Lat & Long. Lastly, for those who want to decode their own METAR data, here's the link to NOAA's "Key to METAR Surface Weather Observations": http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/conver...tardecoder.html I hope you find these interesting.
  22. I would start by brining the sensor closerr to the base as that could very well be your problem. WM - you can make your own cables, all you need is some Cat5 cable and an RJ11 crimping tool. I think they are wired in parallel, rather than twisted, but you can check the colours on your existing cables to make sure. I got THIS crimping set from Maplins.
  23. What are your requirements? Wired or wireless, PC connection (USB or Serial), data logger or no data logger, out of the box kit or a build your own? You could take your chance on the warrenty and get a cabled Davis VP2 from the U.S for around £250-350, but it will have to back to the U.S for any warrenty work and you have to add import duty & VAT to price. Or there's the OS WRM928 which is a good station but has no data logger so if you keep your data on a PC then it won't record anything while the PC is switched off. If you fancy a home build then there's the 1-Wire system where you can add as many or as few sensors as you like. You could even keep the WS3600 going and run a 1-Wire temp & humidity sensor as a backup.
  24. I can also recommend the EOS 400D, best thing I every did was buying that. Or if you're looking for something that doesn't need interchangable lenses then Fuji also do some good cameras like the S9600 with a 28-300m lens.
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