Lyndhurst-Hill
The name came to me one day when I was walking up to the house, there is a little of a hill in it and the original street address was Lyndhurst Road. Hence the name Lyndhurst-Hill was born.
We moved to Dayboro in 2005, planning to have a little bit of a hobby farm become a little bit self sufficient. The irony is that I traveled from the other side of the world to only find that people who moved in next door are coming from the same country I did, they think they live on the Gold Coast and do not like the smell of the rural country (but that is another story).
When I lived in NSW I was involved (amongst other things) with the Rural Fire Service, as an active fire-fighter and emergency response driver.
Weather is an important part of the training course, especially if you are in remote areas you want to know a little more about the weather. This is where he became interested in the Weather, hey why go outside if you can monitor the weather from your desk.
Always like to provide information and during my time at the NSW RFS I created the largest fire photo archive (no longer maintained by me) in Australia (all photos are donated to the State) whilst I was involved in the front line fire fighting and emergency response activities in:
- Several local incidents, such as fires, care accidents and disasters (up to 200+ a year)
- Sydney (Black X-mass fires) <click here>
- Canberra (The Duffy disaster) <click here>
It was during the training I became interested in the weather, driving big trucks into remote mountain areas and GPS. After writing several GPS courses and providing training to RFS members it was time to move on and do something else (like starting a family). The only thing that really remains from that time, is the Weather Station (I cannot really afford big 4WD trucks to play with :-)).
About This Station
The station is powered by a Vantage Pro weather station. The data is collected every2.5 seconds and the site is updated every 5minutes. This site and its data is collected using Weather Display Software. The station comprises of an anemometer, rain gauge and a thermo-hydro sensor situated in optimal positions for highest accuracy possible.
Lyndhurst-Hill Weather station is collecting weather information on a 24x7x365 basis. The data collected is transmitted to our office server and from there it is transmitted to several weather sites and weather organisations for statistical analysis and evaluation.
Dutch Digital Dynamics uses the data to analyse the best options for Green Energy such as wind energy and/or solar. If you want to know more about this please contact us.
Where is it?
Located near Queensland's southeast coast, Lyndhurst-Hill has a warm, climate with both maritime and continental influences. Rainfall is fairly generous, averaging over 1200 mm per year. Late summer is the wettest time, with many afternoon thundershowers, and occasionally even tropical cyclones from the Pacific.
Late winteris usually the driest time, with many fine sunny days, though rain still falls at least a few times a month. Summers are hot and humid with highs often near 30 C and lows about 20. In some years westerly winds can bring very hot, dry air with highs near 40.
Winters arecool to mild, with highs 17-25 and lows 5-15, though on rare occasions southwest air streams can bring lows near freezing, especially inland.
Station Details
| Software: | |
| Weather Display V %wdversion% Build %wdbuild% | OS: Windows 2003 Server, running for %windowsuptime% |
| NexStorm V 1.6 | PLCOM V 2.10.6.187 |
| Hardware | |
| Weather Data Collector: Davis Vantage Pro 1 | Boltek Lightning detector |
| Dual AMD 1800Mhz, 4MB RAM | |
| Location | |
| lat %stationlatitude% | long: %stationlongitude% |
| Altitude: %stationaltitude% meter for the weatherstation, the windmeter is 5 meters above that. | Published name: %stationname%. |
| Wind Energy | |
| Wind shear coefficients: -- Power law exponent: 0.14 -- Surface roughness: 0.20m -- Roughness class 0.78 -- Roughness description: Rough pasture |
Wind power coefficients: -- Power density at 50m: 123W/m2 -- Wind power class: 1 (Poor) |
| Running Cost | |
| AU$ 315.21 Per Year | |
| Visitors (Not including robots, spiders etc): | |
| Average hits per day: | approx 4500 |
| Average bandwidth used per day (download only): | 30 MB |
| Average visit duration: | 620 seconds |
| Software used for development | |
 Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 |
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