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Inaccurate Anonemeter Readings

Fri, 9 Oct 2009 16:33:00 GMT

After the DirecTV guy came out yesterday, there is now a huge dish one foot from the instrument block winds from the south. I will need to get a taller post to remount the anemometer so it's higher than the new dish. Until then I think the readings are going to be a little out of whack.
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Outage report

Sat, 18 Jul 2009 14:08:00 GMT

It appears that the station stopped responding right when we got those severe thunderstorms on Thursday. I took the station apart to make sure no water got in it and restarted the server a couple times but no luck. I didn't want to do a battery pull on the main unit, because any data would be lost, but in the end that is what I did. So the station is now backup, but I am missing a good chunk of rainfall data from the last 24 hours.
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Rain gauge back up and running

Wed, 8 Apr 2009 23:45:00 GMT

After a couple wind related mishaps with the rain sensor getting blow down, it is back up and running. I've noticed, like the other instruments, that there is greater accuracy in reporting now that it is hardwired. I did notice that the amounts were lower then surrounding stations, but that's an accurate representation of the rainfall here in Milton Mills.
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Rain guage is on

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 00:48:00 GMT

After enough snow has melted to uncover the rain gauge, I was able to prop it back into place today. With the light precipitation expected tonight, it should be a good test for the unit hard wired. Lets hope enough precipitation makes it this way without fizzling out.There is still a considerable amount of snow pack up this way and a considerable amount of low lying fog appeared on my ride home right at the Milton/Rochester town line all the way home to Milton Mil...
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Clobbered

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:13:00 GMT

I have to say, as much as I love snow, last night was one of those nights when you wish you weren't in the band of heaviest precipitation. We lost power somewhere around 9pm, but it was no surprise. When I went outside to get some more firewood, I saw all the tree's bent over like during the ice storm and heard several large branches making that so familiar sound of giving way under the weight of the heavy snow. Once the outage did occur it was time to go get the...
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