SUTTONNet Weather Station

Our weather station records, stores and publishes online the weather conditions in the Long Corner Creek valley, near Adaminaby NSW.

We record:

• Temperature
• Humidity
• Wind conditions (speed, direction, gusts)

Both current and past data are available on our website.

See weather reports

Why a weather station?

Bill loves weather. Clouds, storms, satellite images, barometric charts, historical records. It's been a long cherished dream of Bill's: his own weather station, set up to official recording standards.

It's a love he can usefully share with friends, local enterprises and visitors.  Farmers, fishermen, tourism operators and others need accurate local reports.

Our nearest official station is 65 km away. It is often at variance with the conditions around Adaminaby.

Weather is diverse across different parts of the Monaro, with the influence of mountains, hills and lakes. It can be extreme, with heavy frosts or snow. Yet the entire Monaro - Snowy Mountains district is covered by only a few official stations. For the Cabramurra station, temperature readings have sometimes been unavailable in the official records.

So community groups, businesses and interested individuals are setting up their own weather stations.

What's in it for SuttonNet?

Our weather reports are a community service. But it's also a link to our main website, and some of you who need the weather pages might decide to spend $ with us.

The weather station also became a catalyst for a task that was on our to-do list, but never seemed to get to the top: the upgrade and full rewrite of our old website.

We plan to redesign the  reports interface for our weather station. That will provide a new showcase for our skills, and a service that we can offer other weather station owners.

Specs

Wind: anenometer on a 10m pole, around 1100m above sea level. This location was chosen because it is well exposed to all directions.

Temperature and humidity: recorded at 1066m. It's legitimate to record wind and temperatures in separate but nearby locations. It's the most practical solution for us here, because temperatures at the top of the slope where the wind is measured, would be significantly higher than for the rest of the valley.

When there's green grass, the station sits above it as per international standards (link). That's not achievable in late summer or indeed in winter when frosts kill leaf growth.

Equipment: Davis

Thanks

Many thanks to the friends and helpers who made this dream come true with their labour, advice, donation of materials, lending equipment and helping to install the pole for the anenometer: Dennis, Paul, Andrew, Chester.

Thanks too to Davis Australia for patiently answering our many queries about installation and signals.