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.
Blog
Brief NOAA WeatherRadio outage today
About 8:30 this morning, the local NOAA weather radio station (WXJ40, 162.400 MHz, Pennacook, NH) went into a loop repeating the message that the station was offline. I checked my other local stations (WNG575 Pack Monadnock and KZZ41 Mount Washington) and they report the same. The only streaming station in New England is Dresden, Maine …
New and Improved! (and downtime)
Today, the cable folks came by and upgraded all of our networking interface to new and faster devices. Unfortunately, it also meant I had to reconfigure all of the machines involved in the weather station, as they depend on static addresses to find each other. Laptops and cell phones and PCs that take whatever IP …
Downtime
Several of the weather reporting systems we have running broke down at 5:15 PM yesterday. While setting up fans in the windows after a long hot day, I suspect I bumped the GW1100 gateway device and cause it to malfunction. The gateway gets signals from all the local sensors, and makes that data available on …
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