About This Station
The station is a Davis Vantage Pro-2 Wireless weather station. Gauges include, Rain Gauge, Wind Direction, Wind Speed, Indoor/Outdoor Tempurature and Humidity Sensors, and a Barometer. The data from the outside instruments is sent wirelessly to the base unit inside. Power to the outdoor instrument(s) is supplied by a solar collector panel and a backup battery. Once the station has collected the data it is then transfered to a data logger and a netbook PC running Windows XP and Weather Display software. The data is then uploaded to this site on a varying schedule from every few seconds to once a day depending on the data.
About This City
Hazel Dell, Washington is a part of Vancouver, Washington...not Vancouver, BC. In 1792, Robert Gray was the first non-Native American to explore the Columbia river. Later that same year a British Lt. named William Broughton explored the first 100 miles of the river from the Pacific Ocean upstream. He named a point of land along the shore of the Columbia after his commander Captian George Vancouver.
In 1806 Meriweather Lewis and William Clark near Vancouver on they return trip of their famous expedition. In 1825 the Northwest headquarters for the Hudson's Bay company moved from Astoria, Oregon to a more desirable location and kept the name Vancouver as noted on Broughton's map, and thus was born Ft. Vancouver. Ft. Vancouver was for many years a center for trade in the Pacific Northwest.
In 1846 United States control was extended up to the 49 Parallel incorporating the Northwest into the United States. The city of Vancouver was formally established in 1857. Today, Vancouver is still the oldest non-Native American settlement in the Pacific Northwest, home to the oldest living Apple tree (planted in 1826), and the oldest public square in the Pacific Northwest (Esther Short Park 1855, I was there at a Jazz Festival just a couple of weeks prior to this writing). It also has one of the oldest continually operated airports in the country which the first tranpolar flight by the Soviets landed at in 1937.
About This Website
This site is a template design by CarterLake.org with PHP conversion by Saratoga-Weather.org.
Special thanks go to Kevin Reed at TNET Weather for his work on the original Carterlake templates, and his design for the common website PHP management.
Special thanks to Mike Challis of Long Beach WA for his wind-rose generator, Theme Switcher and CSS styling help with these templates.
Special thanks go to Ken True of Saratoga-Weather.org for the AJAX conditions display, dashboard and integration of the TNET Weather common PHP site design for this site.
Template is originally based on Designs by Haran.
This template is XHTML 1.0 compliant. Validate the XHTML and CSS of this page.
Last Thoughts
Along with the people listed above who's scripts make this whole thing run, I would like to thank Brian who wrote the Weather Display software and walked me through some rough times getting all the correct files to upload, and also my wife who puts up with me and all my gadgets. :) She says my computer room looks like the den of a mad scientist with all the flashing lights and cables running everywhere...I am getting better though as now even though all the hardware is in that room, it is all able to be accessed remotely, so I can take her laptop and run the weather station and the telescope while sitting next to her watching a movie.