Doug's Weather Underground Blog

Rain

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 03:24:00 GMT

Well, after declaring the rain gauge dead, I played around with it and managed to get the station on a level. To my surprise, the rain from Saturday, Oct. 24 was actually recorded. It'll be interesting to see how long it's able to record rain events.~D
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Move

Sun, 29 Mar 2009 13:53:00 GMT

I recently had to relocate my WUHU server to another part of the house, out of range of the station. I moved the station to another part of the yard and things are back online now. Sorry for the disruption.Doug
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New Software

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 03:35:00 GMT

I'd like to apologize for the sporadic reporting information of late. I am evaluating new software to handle the uploads to WU. WUHU works fairly well but often I find that it's waiting for me to tell it to run. Must be some glitch recognizing that Windows Vista has started up. I tested Cumulus but it looks like it's not working quite right. The author warns about this on the Cumulus web page but thought I'd try it anyway. Now I'm on to wu2300, which is a comm...
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February Thaw

Mon, 9 Feb 2009 03:21:00 GMT

Comfortable temps today relative to recent conditions. Some of the ice build-up on the driveway has disappeared though I expect what's left will freeze up and make the climb for the Civic difficult once again. It looks like warmer weather will be around this week so I expect all of the driveway to be clear by the end of the week.
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Storm

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 03:38:00 GMT

Lookin' like another douse of snow for tomorrow. NWS is saying 10-15 inches. I believe that's the most expected so far this winter. I bought some more gas for the snow blower today and glad I did.~D
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