Home Page Update

Major update to the home or index page - added the following:
Additional Rain - data points
Additional Humidity - data points
Additional Barometer - data points
7 Day Averages
Cloud Height
Rock Hall Tides and Tide Clock
Record Temps for this day
Normal Temps for this day
Heating and Cooling Degree Days

look for the small ? next to several of the titles....click for additional info.

Updated Mobile Cell/PDA WX Report

I'm pleased to provide a live weather feed for your cell phone or pda. For the purists, this does not create true WAP code, but rather HTML pages suitable for viewing in most cell phones. It's been tested with Blackberry, iPhone and Palm units. My expectation is that the feed will display equally well on other phones as well.

Included within the conditions page is the daily Tide Prediction.
Also new is a watch/warnings tab that will post local Kent County alerts.

Since these are HTML pages you can click and view them on your browser. This will give you some idea of what you'll see on your phone.

Click here to try it out. Mobile Cell/PDA

Rain & Temp Details

Two new reports added today:

Daily rain totals, by year, by month, by day Rain Detail

Daily Temperature Hi/Lo by year, by month, by day Temp Detail

I'm glad to have these in place prior to the start of the new year.

Both are in the Menu under Almanac

New Advisories Page

This new page will display warnings, watches, advisories and alerts that are provided by the ATOM XML/CAP 1.1 feeds from NOAA/NWS.

Included is a descriptive icon key popup.

The page is designed to check every 10 minutes for postings or updates.

BWS Advisories

Tide Clock

Added a new tide clock to the Swan Creek Tide page. The visual makes it easier to see the
expected change during the next few periods.

New Web Site

Well it's coming up on 4 years that the weather station and web site have been operational. I thought it might be time for a fresh look to the website with new features, data and capability.

Not only am I re-doing the site but I have registered a new domain name as well. The original site is still operational and will stay that way until I'm confident the new one is running well.

You can try my new site at New Belcak Weather Station .

If u find any problems, please let me know.

Thanks

Station Cleanup and Repair

This week I took the time to tear down the weather station integrated sensor suite and give it a good cleaning. It's been about 3 years since the last time it was done and the collection of dirt, spiders and debris left me concerned that the station would continue to perform well.

When the solar panel is not charging the system, backup is a small lithium 123A battery. Incredible as it may sound the battery was still acting as backup but installing a new one now would keep me from having to deal with replacement when conditions were less favorable.

All seemed to go well and my data quality reports look good.

Hopefully I'm good for another 3 years.

Cell Phone Forecast for Rock Hall now available

Us this link in your cell phone browser - wap.belcak.com - and you'll get detailed information of current weather from The Belcak Weather Station in Rock Hall, MD USA.
Notice that the opening page, on top and bottom, has a link to Weather Graphics This will give you current radar and webcam images directly on your phone.

Since I can't test all model phones, if it's not working well on your's, send me a message and let me know......hopefully I can make adjustments.

I have some more ideas for additions to this feature, check back often for the latest updates.