The local weather data is received from a Davis Vantage Pro2 Plus Wireless weather station. The sensor array is located in a field west of my home and communicates with the display in my control room over a 902MHz wireless link with the help of a Davis VP2 Solar Powered WIreless Repeater.

Weather data is stored in the Davis console display and downloaded to a computer by a combination of Ambient's Virtual Weather Station and Weather Display software. These programs not only connect a personal computer to a weather station, they also display, plot and store data for comprehensive monitoring and analysis, locally and on the Internet.

My local station forwards its near real-time data to a number of Internet sources for redistribution including Weather Underground, Weather For You, APRSWXNET, Citizen Weather Observation Program, AWEKAS International Weather, and the Amateur Radio Emergency Service.

DeltaWeatherCam.com features two web cams. The most versatile is a Canon VB-C50iR network camera with exceptional pan, tilt and zoom capabilities, mounted in an all-weather enclosure (see photo to the right). The second is a Toshiba IK-WB11A Network Camera in wireless mode which has great low-light sensitivity. All live feeds, still photos and time-lapse video are processed by a combination of ImageSalsa & MovieSalsa software, which overlay the video and stills with graphics and weather data.

Audio forecasts and current conditions are created using 2nd Speech Center text to speech software from Zero2000.com to create MP3 files using voices from AT&T Labs Natural Voices.

This station was previously set up in Meeker, CO in Novenber of 2001, and was moved to Delta in October 2007. Historical data can be viewed at the history page, and is also archived using VWSql to store real-time data to a MySQL database. The database archives can be accessed from the History & Custom Graphs page using VWSphp.

The Lightning Map is powered by a Boltek StormTracker PCI Lightning Detector. The raw data is interpreted and mapped on my weather PC and this site using Astrogenic Systems' NexStorm/StormVue software.

DeltaWeatherCam.com also operates USAWeatherFinder.com, a weather station web directory and ranking site for personal weather stations located in the USA.

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Rick Heming