About This Station
The station is powered by a combination of data from a Davis VP2 weather station, a series of '1-wire' sensors from Hobby-Boards (via OWFS and custom software), including an Inspeed based anemometer, and (via an RFXCOM receiver) two Oregon Scientific weather stations (a WMR200 and a WMR928). All the data is logged by Meteohub software.
In normal running, Weather Display software, takes the data from Meteohub for further processing and analysis, updating this site every 5 minutes. Both Weather Display and Meteohub run on low energy computers (~5W each).
If for any reason Weather Display is not running, the home page automatically switches to a reduced set of live data uploaded every 15 minutes 24/7 by Meteohub itself. When Weather Display is later re-started, it first catches up with data that was recorded by Meteohub while it was not running.
The main anemometer is the Davis VP2, which takes readings over intervals of 3 seconds. If for some reason there a problem with the Davis, the anemometer reported to the website by Weather Display automatically switches to one of the other anemometers.
Prior to 11:26am on 29th August 2009 the main anemometer was an OS one (initially WMR928, later WMR200) mounted on a 5m mast. Prior to 6th September 2008 the OS anemometer was only at 2m, so wind averages and high speeds before that date are probably on the low side.
The website's pressure reading is from the Davis VP2. Prior to 11:26am on 29th August 2009 pressure readings were provided by the WMR928, with a resolution of 1 hPa.
There are also a number of extra temperature sensors, one of which is used to produce "Temp in a Jar" based solar readings, and night time cloud estimation.
A Panasonic BL-C140 webcam points SSW, a view which includes the island of Rum in the distance. An image from the camera, complete with time stamp and weather data added by Weather Display, is uploaded every 5 minutes.
Latitude: 57° 9' 17" N
Longitude 6° 5' 27" W
Altitude: 100m
Aspect: The site is sheltered by Ben Cleat (277m) & Ben Meabost (345m), reducing wind exposure between W and N.
About This Location
We are in Elgol on the Isle of Skye.
Why "24" Elgol?
Elgol is a crofting township. Crofts have numbers. We are on croft 24.
About This Website
This site is based around a template design by CarterLake.org with PHP conversion by Saratoga-Weather.org.
Special thanks go to Kevin Reed at TNET Weather for his work on the original Carterlake templates, and his design for the common website PHP management.
Special thanks to Mike Challis of Long Beach WA for his wind-rose generator, Theme Switcher and CSS styling help with these templates.
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