Weather Blog

New antenna - end to dropped readings?

Published May 26, 2024, 10:53 a.m. by tom

The station has been missing a few readings lately. A quick check of the signal strength revealed why.

The RSSI was typically around -118dB and the SNR swinging from -3 …

Weather warnings are live

Published Feb. 8, 2024, 12:47 p.m. by tom

Weather warnings from the Met Office National Severe Weather Warning Service are now live on the site.

Active warnings for Curbar are indicated by a clickable icon at the top …

EUMetsat images are back - again

Published Jan. 25, 2024, 4:52 p.m. by tom

The problem with EUMetsat images rendering as all black has now been fixed.

New PCB-based weather station design

Published Nov. 29, 2023, noon by tom

I have upgraded the weather station hardware. None of the components have been changed, but the original, prototyped on stripboard, was starting to deteriorate.

This has now been replaced with …

Curbar AWS is now running on TinyGo

Published May 11, 2023, 10:43 a.m. by tom

The station was down for some hours on Monday 8 May . Eventually I tracked this down to a sensor short-circuit.

The BME280 sensor is protected but it has to …