About the Davis Vantage Pro2

The Canterbrook Farms weather station is located near the southwest corner of the subdivision. The station consists of a Davis Vantage Pro2 Integrated Sensor Suite (ISS) and a Davis VP2 indoor console. Data is collected by the ISS and transmitted to the console wirelessly every 2.5 seconds in the 900mHz band. The system uses a frequency-hopping technology to avoid interference from nearby cordless phones and other 900mHz devices.

The ISS collects rainfall, temperature, humidity, barometric pressure, wind speed, and wind direction data. It is powered by a solar cell during daylight hours and a lithium battery after dark.

After the weather data reaches the indoor console, it is sent to a computer running WindowsXP Pro where the data is processed by Cumulus weather station software. The data is then uploaded via FTP to the Canterbrookfarms.org and other web servers for viewing. For more information about the system, take a look at the Davis website. The system was purchased from www.ambientweather.com. I highly recommend them if you are interested in weather gear.

Where Else Does This Data Go?

The Canterbrook Farms Weather data is being uploaded to a few other systems as well:

• The WeatherUnderground shows our data on their Jeffersontown Weather page. They also generate daily, weekly, monthly, 6 month and annual charts and graphs of our data.
  
  
• PWSWeather.com has a nice format and includes current and statistical charts. Station history is available daily, monthly and yearly or it can be customized.
  
  
• The Citizen Weather Observer Program (CWOP) is an NOAA sponsored organization that collects data from thousands of personal weather stations nation-wide and makes the data available to private and government research programs. Some of the organizations that make use of the CWOP data include: NWS Weather Forecast Offices, National Center for Environmental Prediction, National Center for Atmospheric Research, numerous universities, and many more. Canterbrook Farms data is listed as station CW3169 in the CWOP database.