With the exception of the regional National Weather Service information, the information provided on this web site is from weather hardware and software installed at my home. The information is collected and processed by PCs on my local area network and then uploaded to my web server for presentation over the internet.

For weather data collection I use a Davis Weather Monitor II with Davis Data Link software. The rain gauge is heated to obtain the liquid content of frozen precipitation. The heater is capable of melting snow at a rate of 1/4 in. (6 mm) of liquid precipitation per hour. It may not be able to keep up with higher rates of snowfall. The lightning data are obtained from a Boltek StormTracker lightning detector installed at my home. The raw lightning strike data are processed for presentation using Lightning/2000 software. The weather data I collect are sent via the internet to the Citizen Weather Observer Program. View all KD4PYR site web cameras.

Here is a picture of the wireless web camera mounted above my deck. The web camera is a TrendNet TV-IP400W facing south. This camera provides the image used on my home page.

A picture of my anemometer and wind vane, mounted above my deck. They are mounted on the same mast as my ham radio two meter vertical antenna.

This is a picture of my temperature and humidity sensor inside a solar radiation shield mounted in my side yard.