About This Station
Sponsorship
We are actively seeking sponsorship. This site receives a large amount of repeat visits from local people due to its unique public service. A sponsor depending on the deal will receive many benefits (including a presence on a well visited local site). Please feel free to contact us (07) 8855665 or email using the link at the bottom of the page.
About The Operator
- Arthur works as an IT Break Fix Engineer for one of NZ's largest companies.
- Based locally in Tokoroa covering all the companies operations from Hamilton South to Tokoroa
- While not ready to go out to pasture he is no youngster
- Interests include "The Weather (obviously), "Photography" "All Things IT" "Formula 1 and General Motor sport" "Game Fishing" and lots of other things. (See the NZ Falcon Page)
- Absolutely loves Gadgets
About the hardware/software used
- Davis Vantage Pro 2 Plus Weather Station, a Met Service quality unit
- Several other low cost stations are also online on our other pages from time to time (La Crosse and Fine Offset)
- Mounted on a pole in my backyard with a 9m Pole for the anemometer
- Data processed by Weather Display Software on a 2.6Ghz dual core PC
- Internet presence on a home hosted web server running Apache web server software
- Internet Connectivity by "Orcon Internet"
About Our Data
- Data from this station is contributed to
- Free to anyone with an Internet connection and browser via this web site
- Also sent free to the following weather sites
- Awekas [AWEKAS is an acronym for "Automatisches WEtterKArten System"] (= automatic weather map system) ]
- CWOP [Citizens Weather Observation Program]
- Weather Underground
- New Zealand Weather Network
- Mesomap live
- PWS Weather
About This Website
- This site has been constructed and is maintained by the operator and is based on the excellent work done by the people shown below
- This site is based on a template design by CarterLake.org
with PHP conversion by Saratoga-Weather.org - Special thanks go to Kevin Reed at TNET Weather for his work on the original Carterlake templates, and his design for the common website PHP management.
- Special thanks to Mike Challis of Long Beach WA for his wind-rose generator, Theme Switcher and CSS styling and also responsible for assisting with the Image handling and Earthquake (World) pages. .
- Special thanks go to Ken True of Saratoga-Weather.org for the AJAX conditions display, dashboard and integration of the TNET Weather common PHP site design for this site.
- Slo Weather for his contributions of various scripts, in particular the FWI page
- Timothy Hanko of Walker Weather Michigan who help with the Comparison Graphs Page scripts.
- Template is originally based on Designs by Haran.
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