Westminster Weather Station Maintenance Log
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August 25, 2008
Rain gauge and ISS (Integrated Sensor Suite) checked. Gauge is clean; ISS functioning normally.
May 21, 2008
Put a new battery in the Vantage Pro 2 Integrated Sensor Suite (ISS). Lost overnight data collection for a week to ten days because the battery went dead. With the solar panel functioning during daylight hours, daytime data collection continued uninterrupted. Rain Gauge checked and cleaned.
April 28, 2008
Cleaned the rain gauge, removing dirt and accumulations of debris which hindered accurate recording of rainfall rate.
March 10, 2008
Am working on getting a correct calibration for the barometric readings. CWOP analysis indicates the barometric readings are consistently low. I recalibrated today. Will check the data consistency in a few days.
Recalibration of the dew point readings seems to have had the desired affect of readings more consistent with the other areas stations.
February 14, 2008
The replacement part for the vandalized cover of the circuit board box arrived and is now installed. Weather station is back to normal.
February 6, 2008
Damage to the instrument weather proof box needs to be repaired; the breakage, fortunately, hasn't affected the station's performance but does make it station vulnerable to corrosion.
Calibrated the relative humidity 5% lower; also made adjustments to the barometric pressure to obtain more accurate readings.
January 25, 2008
Station equipment examined. All sensors are functioning as needed.
July 24, 2007
Anemometer functions are now operational and data being uploaded to the various servers. Equipment was set up about 10:45 AM.
July 18, 2007
Weather station down today from about 9:30 to 11:30. Checked the equipment to be sure all is in good order. Re-sited the rain/temperature/humidity suite of instruments in order to obtain more accurate data; and the equipment will be more easily checked for routine maitenance.
Anemometer is down until a new transmitter arrives and is installed.
May 1, 2007
Weather Underground sent and alert indicating that the station tends to show unusually high outside temperatures relative to area stations. The instrumentation needs to be re-located in order to record conditions that are more representative of the area. Have set uploads of new data to 10 minute intervals on the home page and 30 minute intervals to Weather Underground.
March 5, 2007
Data updates adjusted to twice an hour. Rapid Fire feature disabled. Station software updated to accommodate the new Daylight Savings Time parameters.