About This Station
This Personal Weather Station (PWS) and website are operated and supported by Penn State Extension
Master Gardeners of Cumberland County volunteers and began operations on September, 2 2013.
This website was created to help the Master Gardeners better support the Allen Road Demonstration Gardens, located at 310 Allen Road, Carlisle, PA and as a public educational service to our fellow gardeners, our local community and visitors to our region. * Member of: |
The station is located at the Penn State Extension Cumberland County Office Building site on Allen Road, Carlisle, PA USA :
- Latitude: 40 degrees 11' 24" (deg min sec) NORTH, 40.189865 (decimal)
- Longitude: 77 degrees 14' 22" (deg min sec)WEST, -77.239316 (decimal)
- Estimated elevation is 144 meters (473 feet) from NED Contiguous U. S. 1/3E arc second elevation data.
The station is powered by:
- Davis 6357- Vantage Vue(R)Wireless Integrated Sensor Suite
- Davis 6351- Vantage Vue(R)Wireless Console/Receiver
- Davis 6510USB- Weatherlink Datalogger
Software used:
- The local data used for this site is collected and processed using Weather Display software.
Local weather data is collected real-time by the Davis Wireless ISS weather station comprised of an
anemometer, rain gauge, and thermo-hydro sensors, situated in optimal positions for highest accuracy possible,
and connected to a wireless data transmitter.
Data is transmitted every 2.5 seconds, where the signals are received by a central base station
(Console/Receiver) which is connected via a USB cable to a computer at the
Penn State Extension Cumberland County offices.
It is then immediately processed by Weather-Display,
a specialized weather station software application, running under Microsoft XP.
Files of data and web page templates are then uploaded every 10 seconds to 5 minutes over a
broadband connection to the MechanicsburgWeather.com website, hosted at GoDaddy.com. Data is also uploaded
to the
Weather Underground and CWOP.
The Citizen Weather Observer Program (CWOP) is a
private-public partnership with three main goals:
- to collect weather data contributed by citizens;
- to make these data available for weather services and homeland security; and
- to provide feedback to the data contributors so that they have the tools to check and improve their data quality.