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Special Projects #2- Weather Station and Web Site
One of our clients, the Cambria Community Services District fire department, saw the weather website we host for one of our other clients, www.sloweather.com, and wanted a new weather web site like it, with a new weather station installed on-site to supply the data.We installed a Davis Vantage Pro weather station at the fire station, and then built a web page around the local data collected by the Vantage Pro using Virtual Weather Station (VWS) software. VWS is installed on their server, so the web page is updated every few minutes 24 hours per day. We also supplied some custom programming to calculate some fire weather specific indices for them, and put that information on another web page on their site. You can see the Cambria Fire Department weather site at fire.cambriacsd.org
The Cambria Fire Department weather site has become so successful that we will soon be upgrading it to include information from a new solar radiation sensor and from a Boltek Stormtracker lightning detector. Data from the solar sensor will be used by VWS to calculate the daily evapotranspiration (ET) value. ET is the amount of water in inches removed from the soil each day by EVAPOration caused by the weather, and TRANSPIRATION by plants. It’s a useful number for managing landscape irrigation. The StormTracker will monitor lightning strikes like we experienced in San Luis County on August 29/30, 2007.
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