Steve98052

It's raining.

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 21:53:00 GMT

It's raining outside. I can see the rain.My station is not reporting rain -- not to Weather Underground, not to my reporting software, and not even to the station base. I think the rain gauge is fouled up.It also had some down-time on the outdoor sensor (temperature, humidity), due to a dead back-up battery. That stopped my software from reporting all data, but after I changed the battery and reset the software it was working again.That gave me the idea that I might...
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down time

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 07:53:00 GMT

Early yesterday morning, around 01:37, my computer started getting really slow, and uploaded weather information only once more, at 02:03.Sometimes after Windows download an update, as it typically does on Tuesdays, it starts to behave badly, slowing down to the point where every keystroke or mouse click is tedious. I concluded that was the case yesterday morning, and rebooted.The reboot was slow and tedious, and after Windows came back to life it started telling my...
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change in the weather

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 04:42:00 GMT

It looks like there was an abrupt change in the weather overnight. There had been very little wind in the past several days, but right around 03:00 the wind suddenly picked up. Then two hours later, the rain bumped up from steady rain to a downpour. (No, that wasn't snow-melt; there was no snow left in my rain gauge.) The rain slowed to a trickle by morning, and now it's partly clear.
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the snow is melting

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 05:04:00 GMT

The snow continued through the night, and changed to rain in the afternoon. I was up in the middle of the night, and wanted to make sure that snow didn't accumulate to the point of topping over the edge of the rain gauge, so I warmed it with a hair dryer. That warming resulted in rain measurements at 02:26, 02:31, and 03:02. That didn't melt all the ice, but it took care of enough that I felt safe giving up on it and going to sleep.The counts at 09:24, 12:05, 13:00,...
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web camera

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:10:00 GMT

In addition to the problems with snow in my rain gauge, it looks like my web camera stopped uploading after 12:13:31 on the 17th, and didn't resume until 11:58:33 today, after I noticed that it was inactive.My best guess about the problem is that it's something to do with Fwink, because when I shut down Fwink and started it again my web camera started showing images again.
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