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| 23rd June 2007 | Added Google Ads to the top and bottom of each page. You never know I might get a few pennies to spend on the weather station or webcam. |
| 14th April 2006 | I have got the main graphs back online now and the main webcam image is working. However I'm still having trouble getting the thumbnails generated for the last 24hrs webcam page. |
| 13th April 2006 | No graphs are currently being plotted as I am in the process of upgrading the server and have yet to install the required tools. |
| 23rd February 2006 | The external temperature and humidity sensor has
decided it no longer wishes to send any data. So the temperature and humidity
graphs don't reflect reality at the moment. |
| 6th July 2005 | The rain gauge has been installed for a few days now and appears to be working well. It has yet to rain and be windy at the same time to see if the new position cures the vertical upward rain problem. |
| 25th June 2005 | At last most of the external sensors (temperature,
humidity, wind direction and speed) are back. Reconstruction of the shed took
longer than anticipated due to having to completely rebuild two walls due
too excessive rot and poor weather. A 6' x 8' panel catches a lot of wind...
The rain gauge I hope to get back up within the next week, it'll be in a different location in an attempt to avoid the vertical, but upward, rain that affected it readings in high winds. |
| 28 April 2005 | The Howhill weather station is offline apart from the internal readings. The whole shed to which the all the external sensors where attached is currently resting on its roof 15' from its base. Just a bit windy today, probably about F7 to F8, gusting to 50mph+. Normally the shed would survive that sort of wind but due to the renovation work it was empty. See the upturned shed. |
| 27 April 2005 | Due to renovation work on the shed the anemometer and wind vane are currently offline. Given good weather they will return tommorow. |
| 1 April 2005 | The Howhill Weather site has been revamped to make it easier to maintain and ensure that the "look" is consistent across all pages. The weather pages are all now W3C XHMTL v1.0 Strict and W3C CSS standards compliant. |
| 20 March 2005 | Well the station "just works" but I've just spent a few days making the web site easier to maintain, consistent and W3C XHTML v1.0 and W3C CSS compliant. Not quite finished yet or really "live" but will change over in the next few days. |
| 26 February 2003 | We now have a broadband connection so the pages should be updated just past every hour from now on. |
| 8 February 2003 | Anemometer has thrown a wobbly again! Hopefully I will get a chance to investigate the cause later on today. I really don't think it's the reed switch again, maybe a cable fault. |
| 15 January 2003 | Anemometer and wind vane now back up and working. Hopefully the conformal coating will ensure that this repair lasts a little longer. |
| 13 January 2003 | Anemometer reed switch has failed again. Lots of corrosion in the area of my last repair. Waiting for some conformal coating to arrive before repairing and re-installing outside. Hopefully sometime tommorow. |
| 5 January 2003 | Looks like the external temperature and humidity sensor is playing up and not giving a reading. Pity it seems to be getting a tad cold out there, the last reading was -5.2°C. |
| 27 December 2002 | The ISDN line is not working very well. Two faults
in the last 2 weeks cleared by a "reset". This time I had horrible
crackles on voice and *very* slow data before the reset. It may well
die totally between now and Monday when the enginners might come to
fix it properly. If it does die the hourly updates won't happen
just when I manually connect to the internet via good old analogue
modem.
BT Engineer called Saturday morning found faulty connection outside. Line now back to normal. |
| 30 October 2002 | A new reed switch has been fitted to the Anemometer. On testing the old switch was a bit iffy in its switching. |
| 29 October 2002 | Anemometer and wind vane disconnected for maintenance, though I don't currently seem able to get into the housing to do any work on them. |
| 15 October 2002 | Temporarily mended the wiring to the anemometer and wind vane. Rain gauge is still out of action. The F5 (20mph) wind and associated -5°C wind-chill were not conducive to doing much more. |
| 14 October 2002 | Problem with the wiring to the anemometer and wind vane means that both of these instruments are currently off line. I hope to attack this long standing problem in the near future. |
| 20 August 2002 | The ISDN line is down and BT seem to have run out of engineers to fix it. The off-peak hourly updates will reappear when the line is back. |
| 30 June 2002 | Changed the HTML coding to use a stylesheet. Please let me know if anything is now broken or otherwise mangled. |
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