Drury Hill Weather

(Holden, Massachusetts)

Current Summary (Updated each half hour)

Current Station Status: UP Companion Blog (Station Outage Updates, Issues)


Local Radar

FORECASTS	MAPS	SKY & SPACE
FOX25 5-Day Forecast	NEXRAD New England Radar Loop (Zoomable)	HF Radio Propagation
WHDH CH 7 (NBC) 7-Day Forecast	Intellicast North East Radar Loop	SpaceWeather
NWS Forecast for Worcester Area	NWS Short-Range Radar Image (w/W1PA)	This Weeks Sky-at-a-Glance (from Sky and Telescope)
	NWS Short-Range Radar Loop	Sun/Moon Rise/Set Data from 40-below.com
NWS Weather Warnings (listed by proximity to my location)	APRS map centered on my location (shows other CWOP and ham APRS locations) What is APRS? What is the CWOP?	Current Moon Phase
Weatherman Todd Gross' New England Weather Website	Where is Drury Hill in Holden?	What time is it, exactly?

TREND DATA (last 48 hours, from findu.com/wx)
NOTE: Time Scale on these charts is GMT/UTC -- subtract 4 or 5 hours for Local EDT(EST)
(e.g. the dark vertical lines are 7PM (EST), or 8PM during the Summer/Daylight Savings (EDT))

TEMP DEW POINT	DIRECTION AVG SPEED(mph) GUST(mph)
BAROMETER (mm Hg)	HOURLY (inches)              DAILY RUNNING TOTAL (Resets at Midnight) Monthly Rain Total Link

Alternative CURRENT CONDITION and HISTORY Links for this Station:

Via Browser W(eather)underground	Via Browser (APRS Sites)	Via Desktop Ap	Via WAP Enabled Phone or Blackberry
	findu.com	Download Weather Exchange, a free program.	http://w9if.net/cgi-bin/wapaprs/wx?w1pa
(KMAHOLDE1) Click image for Day/Week/Month Stats	Trend and Radar Link via APRS(auto-updates every 3 minutes)	Search for Holden, MA or KMAHOLDE1 when you set it up.	Load this link into your device's WAP browser.

Station Configuration:

• Hardware:

• Davis Vantage Pro Wireless, sensors mounted 20ft above ground level in a residential neighborhood (some tree shielding of the anemometer).
• All the software runs on an old, dedicated, HP Vectra Pentium-II (yes, 2) 166MHz. (what a great use for an ancient PC)
• Since I am using cable modem, a power loss will cause my reporting to go down.
• The sensor pack talks to the base unit on 915MHz...  I am also at the mercy of nearby RF interference. I have removed the standard antenna on the Davis console and replaced it with a SMA pigtail which allows me to use gain antennas that have resolved most of the interference issues that plagued me in 2007.
• Rain indications during winter months are typically snow melting in the collector, or a freezing event interfering with the "tilting bucket" of the collector, or sometimes even rain.

• Software: Ambient Virtual Weather Station, Internet Edition automatically sending:

• email reports to the FOX25 Boston Weather Team (reports from this station are often mentioned on the 10 and 11 pm FOX25 News)
• email reports to the WHDH Ch7 Boston WX Spotter List and to Todd Gross' list.
• APRS reports to the www.findu.com APRS and WAPaprs server and the CWOP via cable-modem on Charter (using VWSaprs) instead of via VHF radio.
• Reports to the WeatherUnderground (capability comes with VWS).
• data available to users of Ambient Weather's "Weather Exchange" Desktop application. This station is KMAHOLDE1.

• Me:
• My APRS-WX ID and Amateur Radio callsign is W1PA. I am a NWS-trained SKYWARN Spotter. I do this for the fun of it. Really.

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   “Not expected or required, but appreciated”            Inquiries/email/questions to: w1pa [at] hotmail [dot] com

(c)2009     This page last updated: July 2009

DISCLAIMER: External links are the responsibility of their respective owner. This page is provided for my own personal use, and anyone else who may come across it. I am not responsible for the accuracy of the information, the up-time of the system, or how you choose to use this data, any more than I am responsible for the weather itself, but I try my best with work and family to keep it up and running continuously. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK. This station is privately owned and located on a private residence in Holden, MA. I am at the mercy of Charter Communications and Holden Municipal Power and Light for the 'uptime' of this station.