Trying to get my weather pages back up, Cactus Wren Weather pages have been down a couple years. My WiFi extender for the weather station/media computer died. I need to get a mesh router to cover the house. Now using Cumulus MX, the software downloads the weather from my Davis Vantage Pro weather station. Also having ftp issues with my hosting company Ionos I am not happy with them.
I had Weather Display before but the software kept freezing up so I switched to Cumulus MX but have not gotten it to upload. About the same time I had switched from Blue Host to Ionos and started having ftp problems.
I am near 38th Ave and Hatcher Rd, Phoenix, AZ 85051
Scottsworld Other than changing the links menu from the side to the top there was not any real major changes. I just updated both my ancestory database and the Henry Woodward Database on the Genealogy pages on 12-30-2020. I was not sure when I had last done it and Roy Arthur Kelly II my cousin had sent me updates on his family.
WordPress made some changes and now automatically updates the plugins. Which is much appreciated, before I was weekly updating plugins more than I was actually blogging which was getting annoying. I logged in today and ran an SEO update and update my theam, which was the first time I’ve logged in to the WordPress app on my website in a couple months now.
As part of Scottsworld also got the menu change and actually happened on the weather pages first. Forgot both also got some mobile coding so they work well on mobile devices, not that you will see the code and other than it works not notice it either. One change I am not happy about is the National Weather Service made major changes to their radar page, there are no more regional pages so I had to remove the radar graphic from the weather page because it was broken.. This is the new NWS Radar page and this is the NWS Tutorial on the new Radar page..
BTW I am officially a NWS weather spotter now. We are to report things like; tornadoes, storm damage, flooding, less than 1 mile visibility, large amounts of rain, hail and Snow. NWS SKYWARN Storm Spotter Program
Not that we get a lot of those things in Phoenix or even a big monsoon storm in the last couple years. We are down nearly 4 inches of rain for the year and the only real weather news was it was hot for a long time and we broke several heat related records. We were still hitting 100’s and 90’s into October and it did not drop below 80 until well into December. Then it went from 90 to 60’s in one week. I had to put a coat on to put up Christmas decorations because I was cold at 60.. I grew up in Colorado so I know what real cold feels like.
I am also a CoCoRaHS Community Collaborative Rain, Hail & Snow member, I have an official CoCoRaHS Rain Guage mounted on my weather station and the app on my phone to report any type of moisture we receive. Mostly this year I have cleaned dust and dead bugs out of the rain gauge. Blury thing in the corner is my finger.. Have trouble holding the phone and taking photos..
Photos of the weather station, been meaning to put them up for a while. Lost the photos when the site moved so had to update it. Davis Vantage Pro2 which has been calibrated by Davis, the baromter was drifting. Solar powered temperature heat shield, Solar and UV sensors, rain gauge has been updated with the new version with bird wires. CoCoRaHS – Community Collaborative Rain, Hail & Snow Network rain gauge on back of station. Cement paver path so I can get to the gauge with out walking in the mud. Weather Display software Weather Display v10.37S b102
davis console
Weather Disply on computer
Davis Vantage console attached to a win10 computer running Weather DisplayYou can sort of see the pavers behind the station, keep getting a invalid json error trying to upload the paver error.. My dog in the background on the patio, blurry thing in the right corner is my finger. Photos taken with my galaxy tablet.
In the last few months I have had 3 bloomskys and took down the Storm unit today to send back. I bought a storm about 6 months ago and the first Bloomsky v1 unit died a week later after being up for 6 months. The two replacement Version 2 Sky units I have received will not stay connected to my router even sitting in my office with it. After months of going around with their tech support I got tired of it and told them I want my money back. Have a call tag for the Storm, need to box it up and send it back along with the ridiculously priced mount
