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.

National Radar Image & Barometer Reading Incorrect

It was brought to my attention that the "National Radar Image" that's used on 4 of my pages was not updating anymore. My image source link seems to have stop working so now I'm linked to another image courtesy of Accuweather. Give it a try, all should be OK.

I'm also seeing that my barometric pressure is not updating.....not sure what is the cause, a bad sensor or perhaps a problem in the clientraw file that updates this info. Anyway I'll take a look and see if I can identify the problem.

Crabbing Today

Got a good lesson today, I called it Trotline 101.
Had a chance to get out this morning and for the first time see up close how locals crab using a trotline.
Today it was chicken necks and 1000' of line.
Location was the Chester River in front of the Chester River Country Club.
Started at 0730 and at 1130 we had just over a bushel of river crabs.
Great day and a good catch!

Tides - Weather Underground - Crabs

The tides page is back to it's old format....I had some difficulties with the tables and updates so until that get resolved I'll use the old format.

Today I stopped rapidfire updates and the NOAA weather radio Sudlersville, MD audio stream that I have been sending to Weather Underground. The NOAA weather report stream is still useable but I'm now serving the stream.

Good crab day today.....I had 13 nice size crabs for the pot.

Steve

New Hurricane Tracking Page

Introduced a new hurricane tracking page this morning. It's powered by hurricane tracking software from Stormpulse.

Make sure to read the "How To" material at the bottom of the page. It will give you all of the info you need to use the features in the map.

Forecast added to the Cell Phone information

Today I had a chance to add another page to our Cell Phone weather information. This Forecast page has the latest forecast information for Rock Hall, MD. Give it a try and let me know what you think.

Updated Tide Prediction Page

Finished a re-layout of the Tide Prediction tab listed under the Marine drop down menu. Layout is now in table form with 21 days of tide projection.