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Arcata Weather Observatory : Hobbyist Resource

Weather Station Software
Astrogenic Systems NexStorm and StormVue lightning detection and ranging software *
Davis Instruments Manufacturers of WeatherLink *

Other Computer Software
ActivePerl PERL core and modules for programming or running scripts from ActiveState (Freeware) *
NetTime Allows scheduled time syncs for your computer and for your PC to act as a time server for other PC's on a LAN (Freeware) *
Programmers' File Editor Great file editor for programming (Freeware/Unsupported) *

* In use at Arcata Weather Observatory

Locally Created Freeware Scripts Local scripts are not supported & are available as a starting point for your personal weather station application development. Remarks will be as self-explanatory as possible. Scripts were designed to run with WeatherLink & NexStorm software, & most are intended to run on a scheduler. If you have any specific questions, feel free to e-mail me.

AMOES v1.01 AutoOb Additional Manual Observation Entry System
[Language: PERL] (last update: 11/3/02)

AutoOb v1.30 Sends hourly observations to coolwx.com including lightning remarks from NexStorm
[Language: PERL] (last update: 9/15/04)

Chimes Very simple script that will play 3 short beeps and can be scheduled to run before the time to take manual observations.
[Language: PERL]

DailyObs v1.11 Creates table of hourly observations at the end of each day and sends to printer...will likely be combined with HourlyObs software in the future
[Language: PERL] (last update: 8/7/04)

HourlyObs v1.02 Creates table of hourly observations each hour...will likely be combined with DailyObs software in the future
[Language: PERL] (last update: 8/7/04)

Lightning Extractor v1.01 Extracts last 15 minutes of lightning data from NexStorm every hour with nxutil.exe...for use in AutoOb, DailyObs, and HourlyObs
[Language: PERL] (last update: 8/23/04)

TRACtable v1.01 Arranges NexStorm TRAC report into tabular format
[Language: PERL] (last update: 10/27/04)

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