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.
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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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AS SEEN ON TV!
Ryan Hall, digital meteorologist, did one of his well-attended livestreams during the Great Blizzard of 2026 and featured a picture I had submitted of his “Y’All-O-Meter 2.0″ showing 15 inches of snow in the field before the blizzard arrived in Contoocook. I was disappointed that we got wind and nearly no accumulation from the storm, …
New temperature sensors
On the intranet weather report, we’ve added two new temperature/humidity sensors (WN31) to monitor the garage and the three-season porch. While the porch is enclosed for the cold season(s), temperatures are often the hottest in the house! The garage has become more important as LLL grew tomatoes this year, on a rolling cart and a …
Offline yesterday
Alert weather watchers observed the websites (https://wx.iayft.com, https://contoocook.org and https://contoocook.org/cell.php) were offline Sunday morning, July 27th. My internet hosting provider (Linode/Akamai) had a long-term site power outage and troubled recovery of their HVAC systems resulting in a long, slow, manual restoration. The were good about keeping their users informed. I expect many lessons were learned …
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