Some severe thunderstorms rolled through this past Friday, 06\/29\/2012.\u00a0 Many homes and businesses are still without power almost 3 days later.\u00a0 Trees are down and traffic lights are not working.\u00a0 I was very lucky as my power only went out for a short time.\u00a0 Just enough to disrupt my weather station data collection.\u00a0 The wind knocked down the weather station, but it was fairly easy to put back up again.\u00a0 The anemometer stopped working, but after a couple of days it started working again, even before I could take a look at it.\u00a0 Must have gotten some water in it that eventually dried up.\u00a0 Also, the rain gauge doesn’t always record rainfall even when I know it has rained, so I need to take a look at it.\u00a0 I also have a couple of improvements planned, such as a UPS and securing the PVC tubing with pins to keep the parts from separating under the wind load. I’ll post an update when I get back to working on some of these fixes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Some severe thunderstorms rolled through this past Friday, 06\/29\/2012.\u00a0 Many homes and businesses are still without power almost 3 days later.\u00a0 Trees are down and traffic lights are not working.\u00a0 I was very lucky as my power only went out … Continue reading