About This Station
The weather station being used is a Davis wireless Vantage Pro (model 6152). The original station (cabled) was installed September 21, 2002. Data began being gathered and transmitted to the Internet the following day using Weatherlink v5.9.1 also from Davis. In July 2012, a new wireless station was purchased. The station is located in the northwest corner of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada on the Canadian Prairies. The website also uses such other applications as Weather Display and WeatherLink PC to create various web pages.
The location is a suburban neighborhood approximately 1 km from the edge of the city to the north and 2 kms to the west. The terrain is flat for as far as the eye can see. In September 2020 the anemometer was relocated to the roof of my residence. Maturing trees in my own yard had all but completely obstructed wind from the southeast and south at the previous mounting location. The anemometer is now approximately 9 meters above the street level attached to the peak of the gable end of the roof. It is is approximately 1 meter above the roof line on the north and completely uninpeded 90 through 270 degrees. Closest trees higher than the anemometer are 20 meter tall poplars approximately 70 meters to the northwest and northeast of the site. With the roof top location those trees are only slightly higher than the anemometer. UV and solar sensors are located on the flagpole approximately 6 meters from the ground. During summer months they have exposure to the sun nearly all day. During the winter they are shaded for parts of the day. The Boltek and Blitzortung lightning detector antennas are currently situated on the roof of the house about 8 meters from the ground. See the webcam for view of the terrain.
The Integrated Sensor Suite (ISS) is located 1.5 meters (5 feet) above the ground in my back yard.. The ISS includes a tipping bucket rain collector atop a passive radiation shield which houses the temperature and humidity sensors. Air flow is good around the sensors which provides for accurate reading on days even with little wind as my yard opens up to a park and and small urban lake.. During low wind periods, temperatures in general can be expected to be on average slightly higher (1 ºC) than official readings from Environment Canada at the Regina airport (~9 km away). At times the difference can be as much as 5 ºC. This is due to the urban heating effect from such sources as central heating, automobiles, concrete and pavement. Environment Canada's data collection site is more than 1 km from any urban development and is also located in an area of slightly lower terrain which also contributes to lower values especially on nights with clear skies and little wind. In addition, differences will be noticed in the morning as temperatures rise quickly but as official readings are only reported on the hour whereas mine are reported as often as every 5 seconds. Rainfall during high winds from the southwest may be misreported at times due to the shadowing effect of some evergreen trees I have a CoCorahs rain gauge setup to compare readings for those occasions. It is probably almost impossible to have ideal placement of meteorological instruments in a suburban area and one simply make do with the limitations of the location.
If you have any questions concerning the website or have any comments or suggestions, please let me know.
About Regina, Saskatchewan
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regina,_Saskatchewan
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