About this Station
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Station
D2149 was first made operational on January 14th, 2009 for the purpose
of providing the most accurate weather data possible for Bass Lake Ca.
and the surrounding area of the Southern Sierra Nevada. Prior this station's activation, there was a very noticeable lack of "accurate" weather data reporting for this area. This was especially true on major weather websites such as Accuweather® and The Weather Channel®. Along with the installation of the station hardware, specialized computer software was employed in order to upload the station's data via the internet to a variety of online weather networks, including Weather Underground, the Citizens Weather Observation Program (CWOP), MesoWest and the Meteorological Assimilation Data Ingest System, aka MADIS. As a result of this station's data contributions, the Bass Lake area is now included in many weather forecasts and reports that it had been previously excluded from. In September of 2009, the National Weather Service selected D2149 as the official reporting station for the Bass Lake area. This includes hourly temperature reports from this station on NOAA All Hazards Weather radio broadcasts. (KIH62 162.40 mHz). BassLake-Weather.com is also the official re-broadcaster of KIH62 on Weather Underground. A Special NOTE to address some recent emails we received from visitors: Other privately/commercially owned stations in this area generally "over-report" their high temps by +5 degrees or more during the summer months due to inadequate solar shielding of their weather sensors. Our station is equipped with the latest shielding technology and thus does not suffer from this problem. D2149 is the ONLY FULLY ACCURATE STATION in this area. Any weather sensor readings reported by D2149 are uploaded directly to the NWS and documented by that agency as the official historical weather statistics for Bass Lake Ca. In short ... This station creates the "historical" weather record for this area. The following is a complete list of the hardware and software used by this station: Weather Station Operations: HARDWARE: Lightsoft Weather Center of Macintosh OSX • EVOcam automated webcam software • Apple "Automator" automation software for controlling system maintenance cycles and other duties unattended • System running on OSX 10.6.2 "Snow Leopard". Weather Radio Streaming Server: HARDWARE: Apple Macintosh PowerBook G4 1.5 GhZ Power PC Laptop w/ 2gig Ram • Behringer FBQ800 Ultra-Compact 9-Band Graphic Equalizer (for removing broadcast "hiss" from original signal) • C Crane & Co. CC Radio Plus Weather Band Radio • Linksys WRT54G v8 Router running DD-WRT v24 micro firmware. (Configured as a dedicated Wireless Repeater Bridge between this computer and our main network router) SOFTWARE: LadioCast 0.9.2 Audio Streaming Software • Apple "Automator" system automation software for ALL streaming operations • System is running on OSX Version 10.5.8 Leopard. Click on the station images to see them at full size!
UPDATE: We
have recently added "Automated" weather alerts to our website that will
automatically provide you with up to the minute weather alerts on our
homepage.
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