Lancashire Schools Weather Stations Site

[Dos_Box]

We've spent a great deal of time and effort on this. Play with the time lapse. It's fantastic.

http://www.lancsngfl.ac.uk/weather/

And yes, we know Colne is flaky.

[ChrisH]

And yes, we know Colne is flaky.

Charming tbh . It's quite accurate really the weather is shocking today.

[Ric_]

That timelapse feature is great!

[TechSupp]

Like the real time weather graphs and the time lapse videos. Could watch those clouds rushing by all day. Excellent resource.

[FN-GM]

I like it well done!

[Dos_Box]

It was worth my standing on various school roofs in the pouring rain this summer getting all the cameras and kit installed.
Our web team did the rest of the magic. Well Done Jonny!

[Geoff]

What hardware/software is being used (just in case anyone fancies implementing it elsewhere)?

[Andrew_C]

Much more exciting than ours!

http://geography.wincoll.ac.uk/pages/liveweather.htm

[john]

Is it only avalable on your RBC or can anyone hop on it? Would be useful for us being on the border.

[Dos_Box]

What hardware/software is being used (just in case anyone fancies implementing it elsewhere)?

I shall list them tomorrow. You won't get much change from 2k per station though (inc camera and laptop).

[Sylv3r]

Ours is below, and we are using some free kit we got from the Globe Project and Northumbrian Water. Very nice peice of kit although the software is a little flaky.

http://www.globe-nwg.org.uk/UKUKVOTX/GLOBE01.htm

[Dos_Box]

OK, this is the equipment we used. We have 4 stations each one consists of the follwing:

An Oregon Scientific WMR 918 Weather Station (the newer version is shown on the link, but is essentally the same)
http://www.ukweathershop.co.uk/acata..._WMR928NX.html

An Axis 211 IP camera in a weather proof and heated housing.
http://www.axis.com/products/cam_211m/index.htm
http://www.axis.com/products/cam_housing/290a/index.htm

An old HP Omnibook 6000 laptop running XP Pro and Weather Display 32.
http://www.weather-display.com/index.php

The laptop gathers data from the weather staion via a radio link to a wireless base unit connected via a com cable. The data is then FTP'd to our servers where scripts translate it to the Flash display on the website.
The camera has a built in web server and FTPs it's images every 40 seconds to a PC running Linux here in Chorley, as well as submitting an image directly to the web site. The ones sent to Chorley are stored then automatically stitched together every 24 hours to make the nice timelapse movies you see on the site. This side was custom written by our web team.
Full marks to them, and Jonny Balls in particular who spent quite some time and effort on this.