30 Oct 2025
Fixed earthquake reporting.
20 Oct 2025
Changed backup server. Upgraded to Debian Trixie. Upgraded weewx to 5.2.0
22 Sep 2025
Migrated to the new WOW server.
05 Sep 2025
Fixed missing extended almanac error.
19 Aug 2025
Upgraded sd card and reconfigured file system.
11 Aug 2025
Upgraded to Debian 13.
15 May 2025
Replace station cam with another Wyze Cam v3.
07 May 2025
Migrated to new WOW account.
27 Feb 2025
Internet fixed.
28 Nov 2024
Corrected aeris (xweather) unknown alert.
21 Aug 2024
Replace weather station. New Vantage Pro2.
12 Aug 2024
Fixed outdoor power.
11 Aug 2024
Replaced anemometer.
23 Jul 2024
Upgrade to weewx 5.1.0
Resize OS partition
Fix Camera issue
20 Jun 2024
Fixed the almanac process that broke with the move.
19 Jun 2024
Moved process from Raspberry Pi 4 to Raspberry 5.
22 Feb 2024
Upgraded to version 5.0.2 of weewx.
20 Nov 2023
The "new" weather station died. Back to the original station.
11 Nov 2023
Veterans Day. Our thanks to all those that served.
Replaced weather stations with a "new" one. I've had the new one for a number of years and decided it was time to replace it.
06 Nov 2023
Had to move the weather station to a temporary location. The station camera will be down until everything is put back together. Hopefully that will be before Nov. 13, 2023.
26 Jul 2023
Fixed reporting of Theoratical Max Solar Radation
19 Jun 2023
Upgraded to Debian version 12.0
04 Apr 2023
The OrangePi Lite has issues. Using the OrangePi Zero2.
16 Mar 2023
Back to the OrangePi Lite.
14 Mar 2023
Upgraded to 4.10.2 of weewx.
20 Feb 2023
Replaced the OrangePi Lite with the OrangePi Zero2.
06 Feb 2023
Replaced the OrangePi Zero2 with an OrangePi Lite.
02 Feb 2023
Upgraded to version 4.10.1 of weewx.
02 Dec 2022
Replaced the raspberry pi2 with an Orange Pi Zero2. This server provides the realtime feed.
16 Nov 2022
Looks like the pi2 caused the sd card to fail. Replaced the pi2 with another pi2.
11 Nov 2022
The sd card on the raspberry pi2 failed. The pi2 provides the live feed from the weather station. Had to rebuild the server.
03 Nov 2022
Added earthquake information
02 Nov 2022
o Upgrade weewx to 4.9.1
o Upgrade belchertown skin to 1.3b2
11 Jun 2022
The station cam is going to be down for a short time.
02 May 2022
Made wind gusts the default display for windy radar.
25 Apr 2022
Added the National Weather Service Radar to the "Radar" section.
24 Apr 2022
Upgraded weewx to version 4.8.0. Added date/time to the "Record Snapshots" section and update the About page.
21 Mar 2022
Added a station cam to the web site.
13 Mar 2022
The rasperry pi 4 runs on a micro SD card. The card went bad and the weewx database was corrupted. Installed everything on another SD card.
02 Mar 2022
Update weewx to version 4.7.0.
19 Feb 2022
Corrected an issue with the almanac section. It hasn't worked correctly since January 19.
18 Feb 2022
Upgraded the OS to Raspberry Pi OS (previous called Rasbian). This is the equivalent of Debian 11. Updated weewx to 4.6.2.
12 Feb 2022
Fixed the live feed. Updated the live feed server to a pi3 running 64 bit debian linux.
04 Jan 2022
Modified the year reports to be the last 12 months instead of the current year.
25 Dec 2021
Moved weewx back to the pi4. Made some configuration changes on the backend. Should be stable until the next weewx release.
12 Dec 2021
Moved weewx to a different server.
06 Dec 2021
The power was out yesterday. Received notice from the weather console that batteries were low. New batteries installed.
23 Aug 2021
For some reason the hosting company updated the master IP address and pointed to the wrong server. Everything should be working again. No data was lost.
01 Jul 2021
Added rain with rain rate to the observation section.
10 May 2021
The home page graphs reflect the last 24 hours instead of the current day. All graphs are under the Graphs Menu tab. Changed the Hays Chart to format prior to weewx release 4.5.1.
15 Apr 2021
Upgrade to weewx 4.5.1
16 Feb 2021
Added windrun and Apparent Temperature to observation section
13 Feb 2021
Added solar radation and UV to the day, month and year charts.
12 Feb 2021
The real time feed should work for both http:// and https:// protocol.
06 Feb 2021
Moved the Hayes wind chart to the home page. Fixed the MQTT protocol bug.
02 Feb 2021
Using MQTT protocol, allow live updates from the weather station.
Lots of other changes.
Upgraded to 4.4.0 of weewx.
Added a "Hays" wind chart. It can be found at the bottom of ALL charts.
Converted the almanac section to conform to the Belchertown format for displaying data.
30 Jan 2021
In the almanac section corrected the query for the alltime max barometer.
Added windrose chart. It can be found at the bottom of ALL charts.
Corrected formatting of the International Space section.
29 Jan 2021
Converted to new web server. Unfortunately it didn't go as well as expected. Things should be working now.
23 Jan 2021
Converted the database to the 4.3.0 version.
15 Jan 2021
Removed forecast icon and text at the top of the screen. It wasn't accurate.
15 Jan 2021
Converted to Belchertown skin
04 Nov 2021
The weather radar wasn't working. I found these widgets from windy. Hopefully the will work well.
11 Nov 2020
Upgraded to weewx 4.2.0. Corrected issue with forecast extension.
23 Oct 2020
Lots of changes behind the scene. Upgrade hardware to a raspberry pi 4 model B with 8 GB. Upgraded all the support scripts to run under python3. Let me know if you see any issues.
21 Oct 2020
Fixed Weather Underground link. It may have been broken for a while.
06 Jun 2020
Upgraded to version 4.1.1 of weewx.
24 May 2020
Upgraded to version 4.0.0 of weewx.
02 Oct 2019
Upgraded to the latest version of Raspbian.
21 Feb 2019
Added radar images. I'm not happy with the first, but it was the best I could find. If anyone is aware of a
better URL I could use, please let me know.
12 Jan 2019
Upgraded weewx to version 3.9.1.
24 Nov 2018
Upgraded weewx to version 3.8.2.
15 Aug 2018
Installing the new console failed yesterday. The issues were corrected and we are running with the new console.
14 Aug 2018
I've been getting reports that the barameter value for my weather station has not been accurate. Installed a new Vantage Pro2 console. That should fix the problem.
23 Jul 2018
Unfortunately, Google has increased the cost to use their map API's. I can't find a widget to include weather radar for this website. I'll keep looking.
14 Mar 2018
Changing the network over the next few days (hopefully days not weeks). The only issue between now and is if there is a power outage. Hopefully, there won't be any!
25 Nov 2017
Upgraded to release 3.8.0 of weewx. Fixed network route issue.
13 Oct 2017
There was an issue when weewx started after a power outage. Resolved the issue.
16 Aug 2017
Apparently the clock I added back in February has not been working. I've added a couple of changes that should fix the issue.
24 Mar 2017
Upgraded to version 3.7.1.
13 Mar 2017
Upgraded to version 3.7.0 of weewx. Fixed the link to Gilpin County Extension and Sheriff web pages.
27 Feb 2017
Added a clock to the raspberry pi. Hopefully that will fix the lost data issue that occurred the last time we lost power.
21 Feb 2017
I noticed yesterday the wind was being reported out of the north all day. When I checked again this morning, it was still out of the north. The weather vane was not reporting properly. I had a backup and replaced it today.
10 Feb 2017
Power went out last night and lost data from 2:30am to 9:30am. I had to reset the weather console. Not sure why the out of sync condition. I need to research.
31 Dec 2016 20:15
weewx software is processing the weather data. The disadvantage of weewx is that updates are every five minutes.
With wview, the current weather page was updated every minute. Weewx is actively maintained.
Let me know if you find any issues with the new system.
To contact me, send an email to obarlow. I was using the id oscar at oscaranddeb dot com,
but that started getting hundreds of junk emails every day. Change the id to obarlow
and I should get the email.
Regards,
Oscar