about us
This is a non commercial site maintained for Public Information. The adds on the front page have been put on for free as an appreciation for the help and service I have received from them over the years.
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For a list of the weather terms and what they
mean please click here.
COMPUTER & STATION SPECIFICATIONS
The
Weather station is owned by: Alan Paul
Forecast written by: Alan Paul
Site designed and maintained by: James Paul
And
Support By Steve Pavett Merseysideweather.co.uk
Site hosted by:
www.heartinternet.co.uk
Weather software:
Main Program : Weather Display written by Brian
Hamilton who lives in New Zealand.
Weather Display Live written by Julian Best who is
located at Colchester. (there is a link to his
weather site on my "links" page)
Live Lightning:- Hardware manufactured by
Boltek USA
Software written by Relko of Astrogenic, this firm
is located in Sweden.
My thanks go out to Brian, Julian and Relko for all
the excellent support they have given me (not
forgetting my son James) in setting up the software
and getting the information on to my Web site. Their
quick email responses were really appreciated and
made all the difference.
Upgrade of weather station hardware.
The weather equipment has now been upgraded to a
"Davis Vantage Pro" with a fan aspirated radiation
shield. The new equipment incorporates two
additional sensors for :- Solar radiation and UV
radiation.
Information from the Davis instruments will give a
higher degree of accuracy than those from the
previous equipment.
1x Corsair 850W PSU
in
a Military Grade 4 u Rack mount case
Add-On Cards 1x
2 port PCIE Serial Port Card 1x
2 Port 1GB Server NIC For Satellite Receiver
Computer Hardware
Processor:
Core I7 7700 8 Core CPU @ 3.6GHZ Base Clock
RAM: 32GB DDR4
HDD: 1 WD Black 2tb 7200 RPM Gaming Hard Drive
Motherboard: Asus Prime B250-PRO Workstation Board
with B250 Chipset and LGA1151 Socket and PCI Card Support
Graphics: Integrated Intel HD Graphics
