The ELLIOTT WEATHER STATION at Cascabel
Below: Harold Elliott
The
weather station is located by our home at 6431 N. Cascabel Rd., and I started
keeping weather records in January of 1983. At first, all I had was a cheap Max/Min
thermometer and a small plastic rain gauge. Over the years I made gradual minor
improvements to station capability such as obtaining a calibration thermometer
to check out the max/min thermometer, and getting a larger and more accurate plastic
rain gauge. The big improvement in capability came in 1998 when I bought a complete
weather station, which I mounted about 75 feet from the house. All station data
is transmitted (wireless) to a computer interface box which feeds data into the
computer on demand or can store a month’s worth of data if necessary. Using computer
software, it is possible to generate a big variety of graphs and tables of all
the station measurements which include outside temperature, humidity, dew point,
wind speed and direction, wind chill, barometric pressure, and rainfall.
"Rain Year" data (from 2002 to present)