What is a Weather Station?
A weather station is a facility with instruments and equipment to make weather observations by monitoring atmospheric conditions to study the weather.Typical weather stations have the following instruments:
About RingRoad Weather Station:
The RingRoad Weather Station is powered by a Davis Vantage Pro 2 Wireless Weather Station. Various weather parameters such as Temperature, Barometric Pressure, Rain, Wind, Humidity, Dew Point etc. are measured by an anemometer, rain gauge and a thermo-hydro sensor situated outdoor in optimal positions for highest accuracy possible. The indoor console measures barometric pressure, along with indoor temperature and humidity. The specialized instrumentation allows for Automatic transmission and periodic recording of weather data. The data is transmitted to the Console wirelessly every 3 seconds. Weather data is displayed at GujaratWeather.com website. There is a facility to update the website at various intervals ranging from instantly to 5 minutes, 10 minutes upto 6 hours. RingRoad Weather data is uploaded by Weatherlink 5.7.1 Software.
About GujaratWeather.com
GujaratWeather.com website is a work in progress. Features may be added or deleted as per evolving technology and requirements. What you see today could be changed tomorrow. Please let me know what you like or dislike about the web site so that I may continually improve the website. Most of the data is from RingRoad Weather Station. Satellite pictures and a few other pages are from external links. Source of these data is clearly mentioned on the respective pages. Never make life or death decisions or any other decisions based upon weather data reported on this web site. Refer to official Weather Data.
Published data
Current weather data is shared with
- The weather data from RingRoad Weather Station is displayed on Weather Underground or Wunderground under Station ID IGUJARAT6
- RingRoad Weather Station data is also sent to the Citizens Weather Observer Program . CWOP collects data and forwards the information to NOAA, and is made available for re broadcasting via the main stream media or to other interested parties.
- This weather data is displayed under Station Call Sign CW8030
- The weather data from RingRoad Weather Station is displayed on AWEKAS Automatic Weather Maps System
The weather data is quality checked by comparing this data to a predicted value based upon an analysis of the data from other local weather stations submitted via CWOP. I receive notifications when this data varies too far from the other stations.. The current quality status can be viewed at CWOP Quality Information for CW8030.