About This Website

Weather Station Information

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Weather Information is collected with a Davis Vantage Pro2 24HR FARS Wireless Weather station. The station is mounted on a tripod, with the main ISS sitting at 5' above the grassy ground, and the anemometer sitting at 10' above the ground. I use a WeatherLink Live to collect data as well as 1 console.  My CWOP page will be updated once every 5 minutes, and my Weather Underground page will be updated once every 5 minutes. Data will be uploaded from my WeatherLink page to the home page on this site once every minute from the WeatherLink Live system. My home weather stations call-sign on Weather Underground is KMEMANCH14, while my weather station down the road at works call sign on Weather Underground is KMEMANCH12. I upload my data to the Citizens Weather Observer Program (CWOP) who then sends the data to the National Weather Service, and two local weather stations (WMTW-8 and WGME-13). In addition I report precipitation totals for my area daily with the callsign ME-KB-55 on CoCoRAHS. 

 

I also maintain a Davis Vantage Pro2 station assembly at my place of work (as mentioned above) just down the road from my home, at Longfellow's Greenhouses. This station consists of the base unit mounted in the open at 8 ft above the ground, the anemometer remotely mounted on top of our warehouse building at 30ft above the ground, and then 6 additional temperature/humidity arrays in 6 of our 25 greenhouses for condition monitoring. Weather data on this website is from my weather station at the greenhouses and my home station. For more accurate wind readings for this area view data from my station at Longfellow's Greenhouses due to the fact that my home station is located in a heavily wooded area blocked from most winds.  The station at the Greenhouses is set to upload data once every 5 minutes to Weather Underground, and once every minute to WeatherLink.com and to this website.

 

Also, please check out my YouTube Channel under my name 'Off Trail Maine' for some weather related videos as well as other adventures I am up to on a regular basis. Please like, subscribe, and share with others! I plan on doing regular video uploads. Your support is greatly appreciated!

 

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0Sfu0VZTSwfNDR9dz-gjig

 

 

 

Station Bio

The weather equipment is located at optimal positions to provide the most accurate readings possible. The location of this station is in Manchester, Maine. The anemometer is mounted at the top of a tripod at 32ft. The compact temp/humidity sensor with the 24 hour Fan Aspirated Radiation Shield, and the rain gauge is mounted on a 1 3/4" galvanized tripod in the middle of the open area at an official height of 8 feet above the ground.

 

• Station Location: We are located at an elevation of 236 feet above sea level just west of the capital city of Maine (Augusta), in the western portion of Kennebec County here in the central part of the state. This location is situated close to the transitional zone between the coastal plain and the foothills of western Maine. Some of the states most scenic mountains are found just 1 to 2 hours west of this region, in the Mahoosuc Range, a range which includes Sunday River Resort, and which also includes Maine's third tallest mountain, Old Speck, at 4,187 feet peak elevation. That area is known as Grafton Notch State Park. Another state park with similar qualities, Evans Notch State Park, is also only about 90 minutes to our WSW. One of the closest state parks to us is the Androscoggin Riverlands State Park, located in Turner Center along the Androscoggin River, about a 30 minute drive to our Southwest from this location.

• My live streaming webcam on the homepage of this website is a Reolink RLC-410W 4.0MP IP webcam. The camera I use for my snow depth camera uploads images to Webcam.io once every 5 minutes, and then I embed that image onto this site. That camera is also a Reolink RLC-410W 4.0MP IP webcam. 

 

 

About Manchester, Maine:

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• Manchester is a town in Kennebec County, Maine, United States, located at 44.33°N 69.87°W. The population was 2,456 at the 2020 census. The southern part of the town bordering Cobbosseecontee Lake is a popular recreation spot in central Maine, and part of the Winthrop Lakes Region.

• Highest Elevation = 666 ft ASL (Monks Hill)

• Lowest Elevation = 167 ft  ASL (Cobbosseecontee Lake)

 

 

My Davis Vantage Pro2 Weather Station

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The Vantage Pro2 with 24hr FARS features accurate, reliable weather monitoring with real-time data that updates every 2.5 seconds. Outside temperature and humidity sensors are housed in a 24-hour fan-aspirated radiation shield for maximum accuracy. The sensor suite also reports wind speed, wind direction, and rainfall.

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Contact me with any questions, concerns, comments, or compliments at bilodeaumatthew@gmail.com

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