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Offline CookevilleWeatherGuy

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If Money Were No Object....
« on: August 03, 2007, 11:56:30 PM »
....which station would you have?????? :)

I vote a DAVIS system with all the bells and whistles...
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Re: If Money Were No Object....
« Reply #1 on: August 04, 2007, 12:13:43 AM »
Quote from: "CookevilleWeatherGuy"
....which station would you have?????? :)

I vote a DAVIS system with all the bells and whistles...


ditto
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Re: If Money Were No Object....
« Reply #2 on: August 04, 2007, 12:29:35 AM »
Ditto here...

But if money were really no object, then

http://www.vaisala.com/instruments/products/weathermulti-sensor

Price is not for the faint of heart ;-)

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Re: If Money Were No Object....
« Reply #3 on: August 04, 2007, 12:59:58 AM »
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Ditto here...

But if money were really no object, then

http://www.vaisala.com/instruments/products/weathermulti-sensor

Price is not for the faint of heart ;-)

Ken


Cool setup. How does the anemometer work though?  :D

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Re: If Money Were No Object....
« Reply #4 on: August 04, 2007, 01:05:01 AM »
Quote from: "CookevilleWeatherGuy"
....which station would you have?????? :)

I vote a DAVIS system with all the bells and whistles...


I have the Davis vantage pro2 plus (solor rad & uvi) and I really like it, but if I wanted to do a bit of an improvement, I kind of like the WeatherHawk 232..

http://www.weatherhawk.com/store/parts.cfm?parts=4

Although I would never destroy my roof by bolting anything into the shingles, mounting it on one of the eave's 2x4's or on the 2x6 facer board would probably be okay.
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Re: If Money Were No Object....
« Reply #5 on: August 04, 2007, 01:50:14 PM »
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Cool setup. How does the anemometer work though?  :D

The anemometer uses 3 ultrasonic sensors to detect both wind movement and direction with no moving parts.  The rain gauge detects impacts of single droplets and can (via analysis of the sound spectrum of the impacts) tell the intensity of the precipitation and differentiate between rain and hail .. also with no moving parts.
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Re: If Money Were No Object....
« Reply #6 on: August 04, 2007, 04:16:20 PM »
Ken that sounds like an awesome station.
Just curious but what does the NWS use at their reporting stations?
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Re: If Money Were No Object....
« Reply #7 on: August 04, 2007, 04:33:08 PM »
Single Droplets???  Holy Cow (in my best Harry Cary voice)...that's quite sensitive.  

Wonder if a bird dropped his 'stuff' on it, would it measure it? :)
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Re: If Money Were No Object....
« Reply #8 on: August 05, 2007, 01:51:27 AM »
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Single Droplets???  Holy Cow (in my best Harry Cary voice)...that's quite sensitive.  

Wonder if a bird dropped his 'stuff' on it, would it measure it? :)


Perhaps as 'sleet' or somesuch.  Who knows, they may have an algorithm to estimate size of bird too  :roll:  :lol:
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Re: If Money Were No Object....
« Reply #9 on: August 05, 2007, 12:12:12 PM »
*LOL@'algorithm for bird size*......
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Re: If Money Were No Object....
« Reply #10 on: August 05, 2007, 05:18:00 PM »
Heck, if money were no object, I'd buy my own Doppler weather radar,

(I was going to say that I'd buy the NWS, but Rick Santorum sorta tried that, to no avail...)
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Re: If Money Were No Object....
« Reply #11 on: August 05, 2007, 06:22:10 PM »
guess  I should have put some parameters on it! ;)

Hey, I'd have a Doppler Radar, too!
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