The Weather Station

The weather station in use is a Davis Vantage Pro 2. Davis design their weather stations to a high standard. The temperature and humidity sensors are housed inside a fan-aspirated radiation shield to minimise over-reading caused by solar radiation (sunlight), thus maximising accuracy. The temperature and humidity sensors, along with the rain gauge, are located over a lawn, away from concrete and houses. The wind sensor is on the roof (unfortunately it is sheltered from the N to NE directions). The station was set up on the 6th of December 2009, in western Howick, which is an eastern suburb of Auckland. The indoor console receives data from outside via wireless transmission. Wind speed data is near real-time, updating every 2.5 seconds. The data is transferred to a computer via USB cable, where a program called Virtual VP collects the data and redistributes it to 2 weather programs; Steve Loft's Cumulus software and Brian Hamilton's Weather Display software. The data is then automatically uploaded to this website regularly by the 2 programs.

Contact

If you have any questions or comments, please email me at davidgbanks@gmail.com.

Copyright

This website (its design and content) are Copyright 2012 Howick Weather Station (howickweather.info). You may freely use the data from this site elsewhere, however a link back to this site would be appreciated.

Disclaimer

Never base important decisions on this weather data or any other unofficial weather station website! Please use the MetService for any important weather-dependant decisions.

Some photos of the station