About This Site
This site represents the
author's hobby interests in the weather and web site building as
well as to perform a public service for the Stillwater area for fast updated weather information. The
site came online on Feb. 21, 2009. The actual weather station used
to transmit weather data
for this web site is installed on a post in the
author's backyard. It is a solar powered Davis Vantage Pro 2 with
backup battery power. Its accuracy is up to the demanding standards
of the National Weather Service.
As pictured, the weather station's features and its associated
automated software make possible the posting of near real time,
current weather conditions to this web site with great help from
wunderground.com. These conditions include; temperature, humidity,
dewpoint, wind speed, average wind speed, direction and
precipitation.
Near real time means the following readings are updated as often
as: temperature 10 seconds, humidity 50 seconds, barometric
pressure 60 seconds, rainfall 10 seconds, wind speed and direction
2.5 seconds. Numerical values briefly flash to green to
indicate changes. So it's highly doubtful that you'll find any
other site on the Internet where Stillwater weather station
readings get updated faster. Use of Flashplayer is required.
Update Interval by Sensor |
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Sensor |
Reading |
Update Time |
Resolution |
Barometer |
Barometric Pressure |
1 min. |
.01" Hg |
Humidity |
Inside Humidity |
50 sec. |
1% |
Outside Humidity |
50 sec. |
1% |
|
Dew Point |
10 sec. |
1° F |
|
Rain |
Rainfall Amount |
20 sec. |
.01" |
Rain Storm Amount |
20 sec. |
|
|
Rain Rate |
20 sec. |
.01" |
|
Temperature |
Inside Temperature |
1 min. |
.1° |
Outside Temperature |
10 sec. |
.1° |
|
Heat Index |
10 sec. |
1° F |
|
Wind Chill |
10 sec |
1° F |
|
Wind |
Wind Speed |
2.5 sec. |
1 mph |
Wind Direction |
2.5 sec. |
22.5° |
|
Direction of Wind |
2.5 sec. |
1° |
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Also check out the indication for National
Weather Service advisories or warnings under the Boomer Lake Park
banner on the front page of this site. In addition to that, in the
left column there is a fire danger indicator based on the Chandler
Burn Index. In the main column, there is also the multi day weather
forecast for Stillwater from the National Weather Service and links
to regional weather radar, along with a link to a player to get
audio from many NOAA weather stations throughout the country. The
Stillwater station is included, if working. Recently added is a
page listing recent earthquakes in Oklahoma.
Another feature has the scene changing on the panoramic Boomer Lake
Park banner located at top of the front page and this page, also,
to reflect the current weather condition in Stillwater.
The panoramic picture of partly cloudly skies at Boomer Lake Park,
as pictured above in miniature, that sometimes appears at the top
of the of most pages of this site to signify partly cloudy
conditions in Stillwater, was snapped during the noon hour, as it
was showing a line of severe storms starting to develop just hours
before a storm did arrive with a tornado warning on February 10th,
2009.
This is a privately owned and operated home weather station with a
web site unaffiliated with any business or governmental entity.
It's more than just a forecast.
Weather forecasting is not an always exact science. Therefore, no
important decisions should be based on the information presented on
this site.
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