Waiheke Weather http://www.waihekeweather.net Everything Weather on Waiheke Sun, 08 Jan 2012 05:37:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 View from Marine View weather station http://www.waihekeweather.net/2011/view-from-marine-view-weather-station/ http://www.waihekeweather.net/2011/view-from-marine-view-weather-station/#comments Sat, 17 Dec 2011 00:26:04 +0000 Remotest Igloo http://www.waihekeweather.net/?p=171  

 The view from the Waiheke Weather sensors at Marine View Rd, Onetangi. On a clear day you can see straight out to Gt Barrier. This photo was taken with an iPhone 3GS. I find the distortion of the La Crosse annemometer cups in the photo  interesting.

 

]]> http://www.waihekeweather.net/2011/view-from-marine-view-weather-station/feed/ 0 Finally found it http://www.waihekeweather.net/2011/finally-found-it/ http://www.waihekeweather.net/2011/finally-found-it/#comments Fri, 16 Dec 2011 05:11:14 +0000 Remotest Igloo http://www.waihekeweather.net/?p=168 After months of head scratching and replacing gear I have finally found the reason that the Marine View weather station wouldn’t work on cable. My obsessive compulsive desires to have a neat and tidy installation resulted in the anemometer wiring being cable tied with the rain gauge and console output cables. 

Cut the cable ties [...]]]> http://www.waihekeweather.net/2011/finally-found-it/feed/ 0 Marine View Online http://www.waihekeweather.net/2011/marine-view-online/ http://www.waihekeweather.net/2011/marine-view-online/#comments Sun, 11 Dec 2011 06:25:22 +0000 Remotest Igloo http://www.waihekeweather.net/?p=159 At 18:00 Sunday the 11th of December 2011 Marine View Weather Station was brought online. A rain detail page and a wind rose have been addes tot he site.

]]> http://www.waihekeweather.net/2011/marine-view-online/feed/ 0 Nek Minit – It’s Friday again. http://www.waihekeweather.net/2011/nek-minit-its-friday-again/ http://www.waihekeweather.net/2011/nek-minit-its-friday-again/#comments Fri, 25 Nov 2011 06:33:56 +0000 Remotest Igloo http://www.waihekeweather.net/?p=91 It’s been a busy week, both weather wise and work wise. It was distressing to see the AS350 Squirrel helicopter get destroyed at viaduct harbour while putting up a Christmas tree for Telecom. I marvel that no one was seriously hurt considering the helicopters integrity was destroyed. Very lucky indeed.
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The computer is all rebuilt and the anemometer arrived from Tesa today. The old Onetangi weather gear has been assembled on a 2m barge mount for testing purposes.

There is test data available now. The Console of the WS2310 has been made to power prom the USB bus on the computer.

Going to [...]]]> http://www.waihekeweather.net/2011/friday-update/feed/ 0 Progress http://www.waihekeweather.net/2011/progress/ http://www.waihekeweather.net/2011/progress/#comments Tue, 15 Nov 2011 23:44:30 +0000 Remotest Igloo http://www.waihekeweather.net/?p=31 All the weather station sensing equipment has been disassembled ready for testing and re installing. Watchout for test data to appear

]]> http://www.waihekeweather.net/2011/progress/feed/ 0 Offline http://www.waihekeweather.net/2011/offline/ http://www.waihekeweather.net/2011/offline/#comments Mon, 14 Nov 2011 18:34:58 +0000 Remotest Igloo http://www.waihekeweather.net/?p=5 Waiheke Weather is currently off line.

It will be returning …………………… soon ………… ish

waihekeweather@gmail.com

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