A serial weblog of my adventures setting up https://contoocook.org as a weather observation, reporting and learning site. Topics include: weather, CoCoRaHS, websites, CWOP, NWS Storm Spotter™, the American Meteorological Society’s Weather Band, WxForum.net, the water cycle, all that earth science you’ve forgotten from school, geology, oceanography, space weather, physics, chemistry and biology and a scary amount of mathematics.
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News and updates about a personal weather station in Contoocook, NH, its associated website, and weather information around the world. We are all connected.
About
A blog that documents some of my adventures in weather and running a hobbyist weather station. Not related to “It’s All Your Fault, Ted” nor “Information At Your Fingertips” which are trademarks of other organizations.
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The Contoocook River Watershed
I was searching for information on the extent of the Contoocook River watershed and came across this map from the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services here (a 563 KB PDF). I was amazed to see over 30 towns within the watershed! Everything to the east drains into the Merrimack River and on to the …
Misadventure, repaired
Alert weather watchers (do you guys ever take a day off??!!!??) noted that the site went a little sideways yesterday. The main thermometer thought the high and low for the day was 32°F, the winds and other basic parameters were not right, and some of the supplementary pages failed to load or generated a pageful …
Updates to the website
Alert readers (I know you’re out there!) have noted that the Wunderground forecasts stopped updating recently. I had updated the API key provided to me by WU in exchange for posting my station’s data on their site. but I missed a portion of the update. The website continued onward, requesting updates from WU, logging the …
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Email webmaster at iayft.com or use the web form at https://contoocook.org