Lyndhurst-hill weather station
Est. 2004 © Henk Harms |
This Dayboro weather station is located in the outskirts, of dayboro (King Scrub), Queensland in Australia. Lyndhurst Hill is the property name, where the Dayboro weather conditions are captured.
It is a typical dayboro hobby farm. I am trying to reduce the carbon footprint. Researching renewable resources such as Wind and Solar, on how they perform locally. We grow our own feggies, meat and the other stuff you will find on a hobby farm.
Harvesting wind, the "Dayboro Doctor", as it comes through the dayboro district valley in the afternoon around 3pm.
We recently, 28/05/09, installed a 1kWh feed-back to the grid system to see how much energy we can produce ( 99.533 kWh. so far) in the Dayboro location.
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This Dayboro weather station is carbon-neutral since 2008. The weather station calculates weather forecasts. For the local community using data, collected from weather stations surrounding dayboro.
We received a, Smart Sustainable Living, recognition for our efforts. At the moment Lyndhurst Hill has the smallest carbon-footprint in Dayboro Avalon Downs estate, for sure (well I guess really)
Fire Index is:
Still not working as it should,
will fix it when I finish working
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Site overview
| Dayboro Valley real time weather |
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 Real time Weather, current conditions information for the Dayboro-Valley, King Scrub and Moreton Bay area, as it is "now". Select Real time Weather option from the menu bar. Temperature, wind, barometer, lightning, rain, UV index, solar radiation. Thunderstorms, within a radius of 1200Km, once we find a thunderstorm, we track the path and progress. You can select the Thunderstorms option from the menu bar. Storms within 50Km of King Scrub or Dayboro raise a warning message on the site, alerting you of potential danger.
Select the WASP page from the menu, to view triangulated storm location across the Moreton Bay region. -
 Live Weather-Conditions. This is a "fancy" way of looking at the current weather conditions. Adobe flash is used for displaying the weather data, select Dayboro Live Weather from the menu bar.
 Weather forecast, using local data and several hundred Dayboro upwind weather stations in the Moreton district. A locally calculated weather forecast is produced. Types of Forecast on the menu bar under the 5 Day Forecast or if you want to view the "human" readable raw data select the Detailed Forecast Data. |
 Graphs, several graphs for (please allow a bit of time for the graphs to load):
 Weather Station comparison, compare data from Ocean View, Bellmere and Dayboro.  Money for nothing, renewable energy, which one is best Solar or Wind? We are the only site in the area, that actually uses the actual amp collection and what is theoretical possible to produce. We a plasmatronic to collect the true power charge.
If the lights on the drive way are not burning...... well that mean we did not had enough sun and wind.  UV, "burn baby burn", UV causes skin cancer, and skin cancer is a big killer here in AU.
What is the average UV we get?
We take the UV reading from 7:00 till 17:00. Keep in mind that the averages go down during over-cast days.
 Averages, based by hour and month for the temperature, barometer pressure, rainfall, humidity and wind speed. - Mobile/PDA page: http://www.lyndhurst-hill.info/wap/
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For a detailed list, select the Site Map option on the menu. |
The following software is available for weather station enthusiasts:
Commercial weather software packages we use for dayboro weather
- Weather Display, this the most sophisticated bit of weather software I have came across, today.
- Nexstorm is used to collect the lightning the information from the BOLTEK lightning antenna.
- To increase the accuracy in the detection of storms, around Dayboro, the data collected is forwarded to StrikeStar Aus/NZ it shows triangulated data. The moment a Thunderstorm is detected I automatically notify StrikeStar AU, they compare it against other warnings, if it is correct they publish the data.
Free weather software.
- Recently I got more involved in freeware software. Cumulus is an excellent example of such a collaboration.
In house automation development
- TankData, a small application that takes the data from a AQUAMETA R1 and writes this to a database. I use this to track the water usage. An alarm is sent if water level drops between a configured level. Great for, remote properties, it can even notify dayboro water carriers by SMS to deliver a batch of water :-).
- PlasmaTronic, this is a controller for the WindTurbine and the test Solar Panels, charging the batteries for my driveway lights. When you drive from Mt Mee to Dayboro you can see them, it is known as the landing strip. I guess they line-up perfect, most planes seem to avoid the area. I like it that way.
- Several scripts to ensure data integrity and publishing of the dayboro weather data on the net.
- Scripts to retrieve the data from the SME Sunny Boy 1100, we got given a 1KWh solar system.
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