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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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 …
Dry February
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, …
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