Replacement transmitter arrived today (1 day late)... It has been temporarily setup and connected but still needs to be remounted to the wall.

A new UPS was installed today to replace the blown one. This provides backup power to a primary workstation and more importaintly all of the cable modems and residential router. The business router is in the rack and is backed up by a large rack UPS. Just in time for the first thunderstorm which hit right about I was installing it. The new unit is a Cyberpower 1500VA/900W UPS. Looks nice under the desk (another blue light). In the current configuration it should last about 48 mins

Re-enabled NextRad GRLevel3 all maps. Will take a few hours to fully populate.
Lighnting Page

Primary UPS for internal network and residential network switches failed. Moved to old backup UPS. ETA for replacement is July 1st

Failure of the Anemomenter Transmitter is causing invalid wind speed reports. Station switched to use local METAR to obtain wind speed info. Aprox ETA for fix for this is by Friday July 3rd or earlier.

TNETWeather has started a a number of development projects in support of the Cumulus Weather Software package which is developed by SandaySoft.
TNETWeather's Cumulus Project Page

New Online Latitude/Longitude Conversion tool has been added that allows you to convert coordinates between degrees and decimals formats.
Online Latitude/Longitude Conversion tool

Brought the clientraw parser up to level 10.37L build 14

Update the weather links page to move the Hurricane info sections to the top and cleanup older links and add some new ones.
Weather Links

Hurricane Gustav Radar Coverage has been added to the NextRad Radar and Lightning page.
NEXTRAD Radar & Satellite Maps

The TNETWeather website was moved to its new home this evening.

Added WXSIM Forecasts to the system. Forecasts are released at 8am , 5pm and 11pm.

WXSIM Forecast for Mesa, AZ

Added new page that displays the current and archived weather reports published by the Mars Phoenix Lander.

Mars Phoneix Lander Weather Reports

Find a day and click on the link below it for the graph for that day to see...

Added lightbox effects to the display of graphs on the NOAA Daily Month Reports.

Monthly NOAA Rpts

Find a day and click on the link below it for the graph for that day to see...

Added new flash component created by Flash-Here that displays a simple image slideshow on the main page containing about 15 images that I can update on the fly. More info on it: Flash Slide Show

Still in testing, but I created an SMS Gateway with direct to air send and receive of SMS messages from virtually anywhere. With this service, I can provide SMS Gateway services such as providing on demand access to Current Weather, ForeCast, and other methods to get back weather information from the weather station via any cell phone that has Text Messaging enabled. More to come...

Added to our lightning page is the SWN Members WASP2 Lightning and Radar map. This map displays activity over Arizona, California, Nevada and Utah.

SWN Wasp2 Lightning Map

Using the code snippet added the other day, I've now created a Daily Month Report.

TNET Weather Daily Month Report

A code snippet has been released that provides a method to extract the WD Avg/Ext htm pages that WD exports.

WD Avg/Extreme Sample Snippet

We have replaced lynx, php and some other fetch routines with a version of Wget which is using the User Agent: TNET_WXBot/1.0. This allows us to cleanly pull data from sites that ask us to and provides a way to block it via robots.txt file entries.
TNET_WXbot Page

A new script project has us now filtering our WD clientraw data files with a script that allows us to control who is using and accessing the data. More info will following shortly in the Scripts Download area

Added a short forecast (first two entries) to the front Index page.

A completely original parsing script was created to parse the NWS Forecast data to display on the system. Currently it is only being used on the Forecast page, but will soon have snippets of it on Current Conditions and elsewhere. The big difference is that the script parses out all the data from the forecast giving just the data, with no HTML elements left over. This allows it to be reformatted just about any way and validate better.

Pulled the credits from the About Page and moved them to the a new Credits Page. Will start moving all the credit attributions spread throughout the site to that page with links from the attributions to the page itself.

Credits Page

As part of our ongoing Weather Community Contribution, we have added two more WD Code Snippets were added to the Scripts Page. One parses the WD climatedatayearout.html file, and the other the WD climatedataout.html file.

Test script that parses through WD logfiles (like 112007lg.txt) and extracts from the logs it finds, the high and low temps for each particular day. This script can be expanded to do the same for all the values contained in those logfiles. This is just a test script and the link is to just the output of the data, not the script itself

Output report of VPLog Extraction

Another user had obtained GSOD Climate data for his site from NOAA but didn't know how to parse the several hundred thousand lines of it to collect just the highs and lows for each day of the year for the number of years he was able to download. This script showed him how and some other possiblities. The test script now parses 1973 - 2007 data for Phoenix AZ, Sky Harbor Airport and outputs a list of highs and lows for each day of the year.

GSOD Climate Data Extraction Script

The workstation used to run a number of Weather monitor software including Weather-Display, WeatherLink, VPLive, GRlevel3, VirtualVP and controlled startup using SoftWX's StartWatch, was moved to a newer machine with a lot more horsepower, more memory and some additional features which will allow for better backups, archiving etc...

The workstation collects the data and feeds it to the main server used to publish it via the webpage. This new workstation will soon take on additional capabilities of our new WebCam's, and reinstallation of our Boltek lightning detector. Workstation finally racked on Dec 5th after working out problems with VNC.

For whatever reason, the NWS has not been updating the 48 hour forecast charts since November 15th. I had hoped it was temporary, but it appears to be a continuing issues. I've taken that process offline tonight as they were badly out of date now

We had a major power disruption here that caused the power supplies in our primary server to fail, along with some other equipment. Took two days to get a replacement power supply in to bring everything back on line. Fun!

Completed the basic outline and function of a new script that will be released soon. This script extracts data from the WD Generated NOAA daily report, it finds them, and then extracts the rain totals from them. After collecting the data, it generates a web report using tables and formatting to display an entire years detail rain report.

Sample: Sample Rain Detail Report

You will note that it is aware of what years are available and provides a form to select another year and display it.

Playing with a script that extracts data from the WD NOAA plain html files and presents them in a tabluar table a year at a time. In particular case, Rain data is currently being played with.

PHP WD NOAA Test Extraction Script

Site news has been bugging me for a long time. It was cute, worked okay, but not very flexible. So today while tweaking it, I replaced it. Now as before it gets its data from a plain text file, but now the format is much easier to deal with, faster to update and maintain. Shortly, it will be updated in my online management access tool being written. So, you can check it out... hmmmm Here... as you are already using it

Added to the page is a JavaScript enabled floating Top of the Page feature. Really designed when you are on pages that are very long, I adapted this code form a floating menu script so that it is small, hopefully not all the intrusive but easy to use when needed. Where is it... it should be on the left just right of the menubar. If you scroll though the page down, it will slide with you, ending up in approximately the same location each time it stops. Not used JavaScript, you won't see it. Actually you do, its way up top on the very top of the page next to the top left logo, but it won't move while JavaScript is off.

It was a couple versions behind... there is still an issue with the second map that is in the process of being fixed.

WD Mesomap Page

Added new parsed NOAA Report. This is really a redo of the old page except now it can parse dates thrown at it, and if the dates file exists, it is then displayed. Also at the top right of the page is a method of selecting from a list all the reports actually stored on the server.

Monthly NOAA Report

 

Released on Thanksgiving, TNETWeather released its first full PHP WD pacakge that provides a simple to use utility that provides for generation of WD Sparkline PHP Graphs. This complete FREEWare package has full documentation, an easy to use configruation that can get even the most novice user up and running quickly. For more info, check out our Download Scripts page.

Using the Ajax library that is used by the Carterlake templates ajaxWDsx.js, I added the use of Ajax to refresh the recap data shown at the top of the top right of every page. The code attempts to get updated data about once every 30 seconds, but the data is actually only updated once a minute. So its not totally real time, but close enough for most folks. If you are not using JavaScript, it will show STATIC next to the date as it won't run without it.

Using only CSS, I've added to the to of the website a recap of the current information that is updated every time you enter one of the pages with it. The actual data is updated about once a minute. This is purely server side activated so no JavaScript needed.

Added a new Notebook page on Constructing an Included File Website. Makes managing your website easier with a simple change of included files.

NB-0200 Notebook - Example of Included File Template Website

Added NWS Phoenix Metro 48hour Period Forecasts to the site

    NWS Phoenix Metro 48hour Period Forecasts

Added an RSS feed to the site which provides current info from the weather station. Data is updated once a minute. Still playing with it...

   

New Version of WDL Installed

WDLive Page

New complete specifications of the Weather-Display clientraw data files has been produced by TNETWeather based on its work with tis WD Clientraw Parser and sifting through the Weather-Display documentation. These give you a clear idea of data types and other important info if you plan on interfacing to your weather station using WD.

WD Clientrw Data File Specifications

On the lighting page, the GRlevel3 sat images are now slideshowed with up to an hours worth of changes.

A new replacement Temp/Humidity Sensor was installed into the ISS between 17:04 and 17:30 today. The old sensor was giving wild readings earlier last month.

New version uses Flash Version 8 and has some new features. I've not made any real changes to the original version

WDLive Page

Added new parsed NOAA Report

NOAA Current

We have had our local data center Internet Bandwidth increased from 6mb/1.5mb to 10mb/3mb using Cox Business Services.

JPGraph Professional released today. Uploaded, testing and put into place

WDLive has been upgraded on the system. New feature, allows visitor to set the units they want to see it displayed in and save that value for each visit.

New NEXRAD Doppler 3 Images added to lightning page. Image shows live lightning when available.
http://tnetweather.com/lightning.php

A number of changes have been done to the PDA version pages of the Station:

• Additional Information
• Inclusion of some of the TWS Charts
• Links to Weather.com Radar and Satellite Images
• Addition of Hazard Conditions and Hazard Condition Map

You can view the PDA version pages via:
http://tnetweather.com/get-text.php

 
Behind the scenes, we have added VirtualVP and VPLive, products from SoftWX to provide a smoother grab of data from the weather station. WD now gets its data from a virtual port provided by VirtualVP and VirtualVP grabs directly from the Davis Vantage Pro2 Plus console.

Also started running WeatherLink for some testing

A charts page has been put back in with charts generated from the Clientraw data files generated by Weather-Display



TNET Weather Charts

TNET Weather today joined the Southwestern Weather Network as a member site and is now publishing its weather data for the network to share.

You can see our new page which shows the SWN member sites by using the link on the menubar or

        http://www.tnetweather.com/swn-page.php

or go directly to the Networks website at

        http://www.southwesternweather.net

A brand new weather station was installed today, replacing the previous VP1 of the same type of configuration. The newer station has a much better wireless transmission range which will increase the amount of information we receive and allow for better positioning of the station console.

Site was moved from a hosting company to my own corp server. Server is Solaris 10 based using Apache2.

Added logic to the pages to determine if the webcams were offline and if so, say so instead of attempting to make the connection. It looks at the webcam image that is sent by the camaras twice a minute and if they are more than 1 minute old, the camera must be off.

City finally fixed the broken street lamp which covers the corner of the house. The result is the North West Webcam now has something to see at night...

Another update of the Clientraw Parser. Also added description for Degrees for wind, and took the Cloud Height which is in ft and converted to show Meters and Feed.

The WD Clientraw parser in the Experimental section of the site has been updated to meet the new format requirements of WD 10.29F

Today, TNET Weather Station has joined the StrikeStar network of Lightning monitoring sites. More info to follow soon.

We have got one of the webcams back online while we play with the various software packages.

Webcams are currently offline as I play with bringing the CCTV cameras in.

NOAA Remote Sensing Division Aftermath Hi-Res Images are starting to show up . We have added a link in our Hurricane and Satellite area Hurricane and Satellite Resources

Sitemap added to the system to provide indexing.

A graphics gallery has been added to the station website that is reachable via the Gallery link on the menu.

There are several sections of our site which contain content which is not visually accessible. We have attempted to mark those areas with an icon along with an ALT tag of NOT ACCESSIBLE so that users that may have issues with that type of content are warned. Unfortunately, most of the content in this type of format does not have a direct accessible format that relates to it as many times it is live images, macromedia Flash movies or popups of some sort.

Acronym support has been added for many of the current condition terms. You can hover your mouse over the term and get a very short definition of what it means.

We changed the index page into a Welcome page with currently a Dynamic Weather Banner representing the current status of the station. This will soon be replaced with a Text Version. We added a new page called Current Conditions, which contains a text representation of the sites current conditions and we have added additional information and fields to it. Soon, a News box will show up on the main Welcome Page and additional data will be added to the Current Conditions page.

We have been nominated for Website of the Month at WeatherForum.Net. Voting on that honor is currently ongoing on the WeatherForum.net forums. WeatherForum is an Independent Weather Forum that caters to all types of weather software, hardware, gadgets and just plain weather stuff. You should give them a looksee if you have not been there.

Major changes to the Guestbook to allow notification when I am away from my computer so that I can check and validate entries via my Cell Phone... How cool is that! Added ability to add a response is then showed below the message left by the user.

Wrote a guestbook system that allows visitors to leave comments about the system. The system is moderated to prevent spam and other non-relevant messages. When they are approved, they then show up as a new entry. Private message can be left too.

Added a Visitors page that provide hit count graphics for web traffic.

Greeting code was added for several forums so that when a visitor who has hit a link on a forum that takes them to the main page, they are greeted with a banner welcoming them from that forum. Currently I am doing this with weather-watch.com and weatherforum.net.

Completed a major re-work of the internal webpage code, breaking out the top section of the website into a separate includeable sections. The site now has Top, Nav, Menubar, Headings and Footer sections that are used by every page that are included from separate files now.

Added Web-stat.com counters to track visitors to the site. A visitors section will be added soon so that they can be displayed.

Added more information about the webcams being used.

Updated WD Live to the new version released today. It basically contains bug fixes.

We continue to have problems with the Humidity sensor which also effects the Solar and Cloud configurations. We need to take the weather station offline and send it back to the Manufacturer for repair, something we have delayed doing due to other priorities and testing.

The problems we were having with the camera have seemed to clear up. Camera is available from Dawn to Dusk and is shut off after dark as the image doesn't show anything. We are playing with a new camera software package called Conquercam to stream the webcam images.

Updated the WD Clientraw parser to include additional information that was added in WD version 10.28T. This includes the monthly avg wind direction and the 12 months of Rain Totals.

Change out the Graphic that used to say Site News with a pure CSS text only one that you can see above this line with the Site News in it.

Added Charts to Publish Data page along with URLs on how to use them.

Added page navigation links to the tops of some pages with lots of sections in them.

Added NOAA Hi-Res Sat pictures of Katrina area link to Weather Links Section.

Updated new weather charts on Current Conditions page.

Upgraded WD Live to version 4.04. Made no configuration changes. Added new instShowGraph Option.

Added Weather Graphs to the main page. Dynamically generated by WX-Host.com based on the stations own clientraw.txt data files.

Added new notebooks for NWS alert on Hurricane Katrina, PHP Weather functions and PHP functions on how to add a fact page to a webpage

Rearranged the Menu bar with all live content now grouped below the normal content to make it easier to find and access.

Moved all new content into main document area, tested and removed old test area. New content style online.

Updated the WD Clientraw Parser to support changes starting in version 10.28n of Weather Display. Link to WD Clientraw Parser

Updated WDL to version 4.03. Added some external site Webcams to the WDLive Console. Note that the TNET Webcam is still off line.

Completed most testing. Activated the pages by redirecting the main page to the test section where it will float the content using the new context.

New template created to use for site. Started pouring existing content into this template and testing.

Webcam system is offline due to a problem with the camera. Not sure how long it will take to get fixed.