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The weather data displayed on this website is produced by a Peet Brother's Ultimeter 2000 weather station located in Newport, VT under the designation of KVTNEWPO3. The data is collected every second while being updated to this site in near real-time. Weather data is collected using the latest version of Weather Display Software. The station comprises of an anemometer, rain gauge and a thermo-hydro sensor situated in optimal positions for the highest accuracy possible. This weather station has been in continuous operation since 1999 with online weather records dating back to 2004. These records are available from Weather Underground. Click Here for Weather Station History from KVTNEWP03. |
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| Web Cams | ||||||||||||
In addition,
four weather cameras are located in various locations
to record weather events as they happen. The weather cams are
D-Link Security Cams, which include the DCS-910 and three wireless DCS-920's.
Each camera comes with their own web servers and Internet addresses. All four
upload images to this website, and to
Weather
Underground, which produces the all day videos.
WX CAM 1 faces towards the South and provides video through low light due to
the available street light.
WX CAM 2 faces the East, while
WX CAM 3 faces the West and provides great time-lapse videos of approaching
weather. The fourth weather cam is the seasonal
SNOW CAM and records a custom
built snow stake. |
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| Software | ||||||||||||
| Weather data is collected using the latest version of Weather Display Software. | ||||||||||||
| Site Location | ||||||||||||
| Placement of the sensors determines the accuracy of the data it collects. Due to the location in a residential neighborhood, efforts were made to conform with the guidelines according to NOAA's National Weather Service Proper Siting Guide. | ||||||||||||
Latitude : N 44° 56 ' 54 '' Longitude : W 72° 11 ' 32 '' Elevation : 745 feet
Aerial View of Newport, Vermont |
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| Derek Maroot of Nekweather.net | As a Native of the
Northeast Kingdom of Vermont, I discovered my fascination with weather at an
early age.
It wasn't uncommon to find me glued to a window during a severe thunderstorm or
outside in white-out conditions during Vermont's winter months. After
experiencing Hurricane Bob from Long Beach Island, NJ in 1991, I knew then and
there, that I wanted to buy a weather station and take my fascination to a new
level. After months of mowing lawns and selling Raspberries during my school
vacation, I purchased an Ultimeter 100. It wasn't long after, that I was logging
weather data on a DOS based data logger and printing points of data to learn
more from it's amazing patterns. At the same time weather began playing an even
more important role, as I was in the process of becoming a Private Pilot. In
2000, I graduated from high school, upgraded my weather station and software, as
I began attending Lyndon State College, where I later majored in Natural Science
with a minor in Geology. Throughout my college years, I continued to track
weather as a hobby while becoming an Instrument rated, Commercial Pilot. In
2003, I became a Certified Flight Instructor and began instructing students out
of the Burlington International Airport. In 2006, I left Vermont to fly for a
start-up company, called Linear Air based out of Bedford, MA. Weather became a
huge part of my everyday job, as I flew passengers into Nantucket Island with
fog lowering visibilities to less than 1800 feet! In addition to flying in some
of the worst weather across the states, I also spent winter months flying in the
Caribbean between San Juan and many islands, from St. Thomas to St. Barths where
tropical systems made flying a challenge at times. After three years at Linear
Air, a new flying opportunity presented itself back in Vermont, where I longed
to return. I was hired in 2008 by Heritage Aviation of Burlington, Vermont where
I continue to work as a First Officer and Certified Airline Transport Pilot.
Flying in the Flight Levels now, presents such an amazing experience, as I often
depart overcast skies, top most weather from high above and experience a
perspective that not many get to see on a day to day basis. Weather truly is an
amazing force when you get to experience it from the ground up! Since returning
to Vermont, I felt there was a need for better weather information for Vermont
and especially the Northeast Kingdom, where at times, weather is often an
unpredictable variable. To meet those needs, I created Northeast Kingdom
Weather, with the intention of providing near real-time weather and forecasts to
the community members of the Northeast Kingdom and Vermont as a whole.
Derek Maroot Listen to my Interview on The Vermont Voice Recorded October, 17th 2010
The Vermont Voice, which is hosted by Scott Wheeler of Derby, who is also the publisher of Vermont’s Northland Journal, airs every Sunday morning at 7 a.m. on 1490 a.m WIKE in Derby. | |||||||||||
| Contributors | To display the weather
data on a web site, customized software is developed to display the data more
effectively by weather enthusiasts around the world. The coding, or scripting,
of these programs are available free of charge. Most of the ideas for the
scripts are from personal weather station owners. There are two weather forums
where anything about weather is discussed in a friendly atmosphere. It's well
worth the visit!
Weather-Watch.com Forum and
WXForum.net
This web site incorporates many free scripts. Listed below are the contributors. |
