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Snow on the Camera blocks the View, for now…

Snow on the Weather Camera will block the view for a while (until it melts outside). The windows on the house are frosting and snow is blowing from windy conditions making visibility worse.

Here is a sample image from our weather camera:

Weather Cam Snow Coverage - 2/10/2010 6:00-6:15 pm

Weather Cam Snow Coverage - 2/10/2010 6:00-6:15 pm

Posted by Christopher Zenzel at 11:19 pm (February 10, 2010); Filed under Current Events, Philadelphia Area Weather, Weather Station, teamWeather

Snow Forecast for Perkasie as of 2/9/2010 11:00 PM

The current snow forecast from the National Weather Service’s Digital Forecast Database is as follows:

During the period of Tuesday (07:00 pm) to Wednesday (01:00 am) there will be an amount of 2 inches of snow.

During the period of Wednesday (01:00 am) to Wednesday (07:00 am) there will be an amount of 2 inches of snow.

During the period of Wednesday (07:00 am) to Wednesday (01:00 pm) there will be an amount of 6 inches of snow.

During the period of Wednesday (01:00 pm) to Wednesday (07:00 pm) there will be an amount of 6 inches of snow.

During the period of Wednesday (07:00 pm) to Thursday (01:00 am) there will be an amount of 1 inches of snow.

During the period of Thursday (01:00 am) to Thursday (07:00 am) there will be an amount of 0 inches of snow.

During the period of Thursday (07:00 am) to Thursday (01:00 pm) there will be an amount of 0 inches of snow.

During the period of Thursday (01:00 pm) to Thursday (07:00 pm) there will be an amount of 0 inches of snow.

The total snow in this forecast is 17 inches.

Please note that we may receive more or less snow depending on how the storm develops and moves over the night. For updates check our weather page at http://www.teamweather.com/wp/weather/.

Posted by Christopher Zenzel at 4:14 am ; Filed under Current Events, Philadelphia Area Weather, Weather Station, teamWeather

Weather Pictures from February 5-7, 2010 Snow Storm: Perkasie, Pennsylvania

Here are some pictures that show what is left of the February 5-7, 2010 snow storm in Perkasie, Pennsylvania. This snow left about 11 to 12 inches of snow on the ground in Perkasie and more in the city of Philadelphia and states such as Delaware and New Jersey. 

Ice Droplet

Ice Droplet

Writing in the Snow

Writing in the Snow

Frosty Weather Station

Frosty Weather Station

Posted by Christopher Zenzel at 10:19 pm (February 9, 2010); Filed under Christopher Zenzel, Current Events, Philadelphia Area Weather, Photography, Weather Station, teamWeather

National Weather Service asks travelers to Tweet the Weather

Credit: http://www.twitterbackgroundimages.com/twitter-logo/The National Weather Service (NWS) this week released a new prototype to inspire users of the cloud service Twitter to report their current weather conditions at their location. Using geocoding and hash tags, the NWS is asking for people to try this new service while they collect information to see how it could change storm reporting and citizen weather observations.

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Posted by Christopher Zenzel at 2:27 am (January 10, 2010); Filed under Current Events, National Weather Service, Philadelphia Area Weather, Twitter, Weather Chat, Weather Data

Updates to Rapid Weather Updater, XHTML Compliance

Today I added some updates to the Weather Updater that is located in the right-hand side of the blog page. I also have updated some of the site to make it fully XHTML compliant.

The previous weather updater did not include support for some of the native Virtual Weather Station components, but I have fixed it that Virtual Weather Station will upload data to the site instead of the site pulling it from the server. I have also included a snapshot of the weather camera located in Perkasie in the Rapid Weather Updates.

In easier terms: I have enabled faster data access to weather information provided by my weather station.

In the next version I will try and provide weather stickers as well as some code to share for those who want to try the Virtual Weather Station components on their own servers or hosting providers.

Data should be flowing to the web site every 3-7 seconds and the page in the Internet browser should be updating every 3-8 seconds (depending on server load).

Posted by Christopher Zenzel at 1:11 am (January 2, 2010); Filed under Philadelphia Area Weather, Projects, Weather Data, Weather Station, teamWeather

New Rapid Weather Updates for Perkasie on our Web Site

This Christmas I wrote an application that allows users of the teamWeather web site to gain quicker access to our weather station’s information with rapid updates. By using PHP, Virtual Weather Station, and a CSV file we can provide updates to our users every 3-7 seconds through the teamWeather web site instead of using Weather Underground.

We will still upload data to Weather Underground, but if you come directly to teamWeather.com you will be able to access our data much faster.

Please note that this service is currently experimental and may be disrupted at any time. If it does become disrupted it will go back online in a short period of time.

We hope you enjoy this new service. To start using it, just look on the right hand of the web page and you will see it. Below is a screenshot:

Posted by Christopher Zenzel at 1:57 am (December 27, 2009); Filed under Philadelphia Area Weather, Projects, Weather Data, Weather Station, teamWeather

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