Doug's Weather Underground Blog

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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Slow

Sat, 24 Jan 2009 02:59:00 GMT

Weather is pretty boring. The cold is coming back tomorrow but no storms in sight. Some discussion of the southern jet getting active next week. The driveway is still covered in a few inches of hard-packed snow. When the last storm ended, I went out and cleaned it up, but at least 3 or 4 more inches of fluff fell overnight. I couldn't deal with it so figured I'd let it sit. The next day I tried getting up the driveway in the Civic to much comedic result. The ...
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