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 Post subject: Best places for weather station
PostPosted: Tue Jan 05, 2010 6:21 pm 
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Joined: Tue Dec 29, 2009 3:13 pm
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Location: westhope hereford uk
Weather Station: w8681
Operating System: win 7(weatherserver beta)
were is the best place for the weather station now i have got the weather station on treliceing

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 Post subject: Re: Best places for weather station
PostPosted: Tue Jan 05, 2010 6:51 pm 
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Location: Dudley, West Midlands, UK
Weather Station: None !
Operating System: XP SP3
Do you mean trellising ?

... and why is it there ?

For all of us positioning is a 'local environment' thing.

Lots of posts on what people have done / experimenting with - even a couple that give you unachievable / not underderstable guidelines from met offices various.

First thing to understand is that all your kit shouldn't be in one cluster (that includes Davis)

Wind gear, 30 feet / 10m up in the clear or at least 4m above your roof / local obstructions/
Thermohygro - approx 5 feet / 1.5m above grass, in the shade ('old' head height)
Rain-bucket - approx 20 inches / 500mm above ground level to avoid splatter and wind shear, also reasonably shaded by wind.

This is why we 'play' with the kit we have :lol:

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 Post subject: Re: Best places for weather station
PostPosted: Tue Jan 05, 2010 7:09 pm 
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Location: westhope hereford uk
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thank you for that i will have a go at that

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 Post subject: Re: Best places for weather station
PostPosted: Fri Aug 13, 2010 9:11 pm 
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Location: Cabimas, Zulia, Venezuela
Weather Station: WX-200 / WS-2310
Operating System: Win XP Professional
For some of ours, siting a Weather Station in a urban environment maybe a nightmare...

I hope this link will be useful for someone:

http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/www/IMOP/publications/IOM-81/IOM-81-UrbanMetObs.pdf

http://home.comcast.net/~dshelms/CWOP_Guide.pdf

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 Post subject: Re: Best places for weather station
PostPosted: Fri Aug 13, 2010 9:15 pm 
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Location: Sanday, Orkney
Weather Station: Davis VP2
Operating System: Windows Home Server 2011
John Dann also has some excellent advice on siting sensors: http://weatherstations.co.uk/gooddata.htm

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 Post subject: Re: Best places for weather station
PostPosted: Fri Aug 13, 2010 11:47 pm 
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Location: Crafers, South Australia
Weather Station: Fine Offset WH1091
Operating System: Windows XP
Here's what I've done, its not perfect but the results have shown its not a bad compromise. (its a big image so I'll leave it as a link)

http://members.ozemail.com.au/~storerfa ... tled-2.jpg

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