Weather station at the cliff

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Weather station at the cliff

Postby Daniel Pifko » Mon Nov 08, 2004 1:31 pm

Is there any interest in having a wind speed and direction sensor right at the cliff? It'd save our having to guess what the difference is between the real cliff wind and what's shown on the web site or read over the phone.

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Postby Guest » Mon Nov 08, 2004 11:12 pm

Great idea, have you explored the logistics?
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A couple of solutions

Postby Daniel Pifko » Tue Nov 09, 2004 10:36 am

Only an initial take. I'm wondering if a remote weather station at the cliff with a wireless connection to the clubhouse or video cam location would work. Maybe something like the rainwise weather station:

http://www.rainwise.com/mk3/index.html

or

http://www.weatherhawk.com/products-systems-specs.htm

with a connection to the Internet. We'd need to fill in some of the pieces but most things we need are already in place or easily purchaseable.
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Weather station

Postby Urs » Wed Nov 10, 2004 12:24 pm

Or just make the tower taller at the club house.
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Wind Talker

Postby Dan Brown » Thu Nov 11, 2004 4:56 pm

I believe the reason the windtalker was not placed at the cliff was concern that it would be vandalized.

As to Urs' suggestion that the tower be raised, why not lower the cliff?

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Raising the windtalker

Postby Steve » Thu Nov 18, 2004 9:14 pm

I think it would be easier to raise the tower twenty feet than lower the cliff.
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We would probably need a brand new tower, something HAM like, with guy wires.

BTW, how is the current anemometer accessed? Does the tower lay down?
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Accuracy

Postby flyfun2 » Fri Nov 19, 2004 5:42 pm

We could definitely raise the tower. On the other hand, I'm thinking that a weather station that far back from the cliff is still subject to changing and swirling winds from all the barriers upwind. In that case, we'd still have a wind reading that's off from what we'd see on the cliff and therefore not a whole lot better than the weather stations we have now.

I don't know how the anemometer is accessed. Maybe someone with really long arms?

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New Mussel Rock Camera

Postby Urs » Mon Nov 22, 2004 10:27 am

Here is a new camera at the end of the street south side of the dumps.
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http://www.camerawebpage.com/sftandem
requires Java
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