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    Weather

    I have had a weather station on the lake for many years. I believe Chuck saw it on the internet and that is how we met.

    I have an abnormal interest in weather as I am outside more than some. It is good for a Fisherman or a Gardner to have some clue.
    I check many weather sites, but by far have found Wunderground to be the most accurate, and most complete.

    https://www.wunderground.com/forecas...ter/KSCWESTM39

    For years I had a station there. After a computer replacement a couple years back, could not get me back on line. I have played with it a few times for hours, no luck. Today I am back up.
    Now I need to rebuild my weather web page as it has deteriorated.

    I enjoy that kinda crap as I get to do it from my porch chair with good music and good beer. Some prefer things like games, but for me, the computer and web are a puzzle type game. I know nothing, do trial and error. I stumble about and some times win -> like today.

    Maybe this time around I will hook in a web cam from the dock to my weather page and yall can see my lake birds (if they show while you are looking).

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    I have thought of getting home weather station but I find it just as interesting to try and guess if the forecast will be anywhere accurate. It changes so much it is almost funny. I am pretty sick of all the rain. Looks like things greatly improve after next Friday so I hope that is true. I head to Florida again the week and it looks like the Orlando area will be warm and mostly sunny.

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    Been working on the weather web page.
    Since I have no idea what I am doing, it is slow going.

    I want to show the current conditions at my station, but for now best I can do is a click. I'll work on it.

    I was able to steal/borrow a SE radar map as the old one has not worked for a couple years.
    Borrowing a photo or image is easy, but a map that must constantly update is very difficult, at least for me.

    Code from a page for weather service is a billion characters, and my knowledge of stuff beyond simple html is lacking. Things in the head tell things in the body what to do, so you have to figure what works what and delete the right things. Just borrowing one small map and getting it to work is a real puzzle to me. You get one digit wrong and you have a mess.

    My eyes can't take anymore code reading today. This is not the end product, but a good start. Any comments are appreciated.

    I pull these type radar maps up daily as they show what is weather is about and what is on the way. It is handy to have them on one page. This is not a forecast, but the coming reality about to hit your yard.
    Most weather moves up from the south. Good for Mike and Tony is their yards are on these maps.
    Right now you can see there is a rare ice/snow storm in Alabama and Lou. That will not effect us much as that will likely go to the west of the Blue Ridge. Those mountains protect us from a lot.

    http://tugalooriver.com

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    Looks very good and useable for us. You have put in some good work here! Anthony Lampros is also big into weather.

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    Got the banner centered and the current weather from my dock posted.

    Tony, here is a link to find your nearest station:https://www.wunderground.com/forecast/us/ga/clayton

    Look at this map and find one near your yard. Most get weather from some distance airport. Your yard might be very different from that.

    https://www.wunderground.com/wunderm...78&lon=-83.401

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    Quote Originally Posted by AgentOrange View Post
    Got the banner centered and the current weather from my dock posted.

    Tony, here is a link to find your nearest station:https://www.wunderground.com/forecast/us/ga/clayton

    Look at this map and find one near your yard. Most get weather from some distance airport. Your yard might be very different from that.

    https://www.wunderground.com/wunderm...78&lon=-83.401
    What is the approximate cost for me to put in a weather station compatible with wunderground in my back yard?

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    Quote Originally Posted by AgentOrange View Post
    Got the banner centered and the current weather from my dock posted.

    Tony, here is a link to find your nearest station:https://www.wunderground.com/forecast/us/ga/clayton

    Look at this map and find one near your yard. Most get weather from some distance airport. Your yard might be very different from that.

    https://www.wunderground.com/wunderm...78&lon=-83.401
    After studying up on your weather post, I finally decided to purchase a weather station for my yard in Clayton. I bought the Logia 5-in-1 and I like it. After struggling to try to get it to sync I finally got it and it is working well. It took me a few days but I got it added to Weather Underground. My address is KGACLAYT34

    This is a neat thing to add as a hobby and everybody is interested in weather conditions before going outside!

    My station was a little more than $100 and it seems to work very well.

    https://logiaweatherstations.com/pro...ion-with-wi-fi

    and this is the link to my yard.
    https://www.wunderground.com/weather...ton/KGACLAYT34

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    Quote Originally Posted by Marty Gass View Post
    I have thought of getting home weather station but I find it just as interesting to try and guess if the forecast will be anywhere accurate. It changes so much it is almost funny. I am pretty sick of all the rain. Looks like things greatly improve after next Friday so I hope that is true. I head to Florida again the week and it looks like the Orlando area will be warm and mostly sunny.

    A weather station does not forecast, it gives current conditions. From the radar maps on my web page one can see what is coming.

    Weather does change. The experts forecast (guess) and do a good job. They constantly update their forecast. I am kinda impressed at how good they do.

    Marty, the weather that hits Mike, Chuck, Tony, and me is headed your way. The maps on my page can help you. The jet stream tends to move most of our weather from Atlanta toward Charlotte.

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    Yes. Seems like that is usually the case especially when it comes to snow and ice. I always looked at the weather in Atlanta and Greenville and it was snowing there we got it too.

    An old friend of mine living in Asheville retired as a meteorologist working for the state. He has a nice weather station or at least he did and when I went to Asheville for work during the 80s and 90s we would go run together and often off the parkway on trails. He would show up to pick me up and let me know where the rain was and how long we had to squeeze in a run. He was not a forecaster but in the department where they collected and stored the data for future use. I guess that is how they created the computer models.

    These days in Charlotte it is easy to know what is going on as it rains damn near every day. My weekend runs have been nasty on several occasions this winter. The cold bothers my back quite a bit so anything I do outside in the cold just hurts. As it warms up my back does well. Last Sunday it hurt almost all the way. Started to get warmed up at about 5 miles and I quit at 6.3.

    I was in Orlando Monday evening and Tuesday morning. Monday evening it got to 88. I storm came thru and dropped it to 70 for a while. Glorious

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    I see I posted a bad link above -- sorry.

    https://www.davisinstruments.com/weatherlink-cloud/

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    My brother in law put up a weather station between our 2 houses a couple years ago and it's fantastic. I don't bother messin with my rain gauge any more cause I've got the app on my phone. We had well over 6 feet of rain in 2020 and had to have my roof replaced finally. Storms washed my driveway out and fixed I it by dumpin 16 bags of Sakrete off my tailgate into tread line ditches. Killer job but it worked great. If the waters not comin from the sky it's comin from the ground. Even through the trees. The great equalizer

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