Hardware
The weather station is an 'Oregon WMR200' (With UV sensor) and the instruments are located on my roof in Bellmere, near Caboolture in South East Queensland. Data is captured from the weather station using 'Virtual Weather Station' software and this software is used to save data into a CSV file. This data is then imported into the seperate database using SSIS packages and TSQL scripts. For more information on the setup, view the instruments page.
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Oregon WMR200 instruments on the roof in a homemade Stevenson
screen with solar powered fan for those hot, sunny and wind-less days.
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Data
The first data recordings in the five minute historical database occurred on the 9th February 2007 and the database currently contains 319,502 individual weather recordings. UV Index readings commenced 26th August 2008 and Lightning detection commenced 1st November 2008.
Software
Bellmere Weather is almost totally automated and makes use of the following software to collect local data, plus download data from various sources on the Internet. Please visit their website for product details and copyright / legal information.
Microsoft SQL Server (Express) - Main database and data import and transformation software. Website
Virtual Weather Station (VWS) - Retrieve data from the WMR200 weather station into text files for import. Website
NexStorm - Lightning detector software to display lightning strike data and calculate storms. Website
NSLog - An excellent little application that 'hooks' into NexStorm and enables data imports. Website
WxSim - Weather forecasting software that downloads data off of the internet, plus my data, and produces forecasts. Website
Digital Atmosphere - Weather charting software used to produce weather charts and radar maps. Website
WebCamXp - Webcam software for scheduled snapshots and streaming of live webcam video. Website
Disclaimer
Data received from my weather station, lightning detector and webcam is made as accurately as possible, however as the data is automatically imported 24/7, it's accuracy cannot be guaranteed.
Data from my weather station or downloaded from the internet to generate weather forecasts is not quality controlled by me and it's accuracy cannot be guarenteed.
As a result, please do not make any decissions based on the data on this site.
Additional Information
Website weather photographs taken by my lovely wife. (A.K.A. The Boss)
BellmereWeather is a non-commercial private hobby website, which has evolved over the past few years and is now hosted by me at A² Systems Management (Brisbane). All Local weather data and lightning data is owned by BellmereWeather / A² Systems Management (Brisbane) and all data downloaded from the internet and used for charts and forecasting is property of the respective owners.
