Weather Station Status
This page shows the current status of the weather software used in the operation of this website and a record of all updates to the site since the re-write in January 2012.
Station system up for 8 Days 11 Hours 20 Minutes 58 SecondsStation system free memory 468MB
This website uses Weather-Display (10.37R-(b23)) for weather conditions reporting.
It was last started 17:18 13/05/12.
| Component | Status | Age (h:m:s) | Latest update time as of 18/05/2012 07:55 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weather-Display realtime | Current | 0:00:12 | 18/05/2012 07:55 |
| Weather-Display FTP | Current | 0:00:19 | 18/05/2012 07:55 |
| Weather-Display weather data | Current | 0:00:58 | 18/05/2012 07:55 |
| Weather-Display NOAA report | Current | 7:44:48 | 18/05/2012 00:11 |
| Weather-Display Month report | Current | 7:44:43 | 18/05/2012 00:11 |
Site Updates
January 12th 2012 - The whole site has been completely re-written and updated. The site still uses the same template, but the design has been refreshed to give a cleaner look and to make the site more readable, especially on mobile devices. The site is now fully XHTML 1.0 and CSS level 2.1 compliant. As part of the re-write, the Weather Display Live software was updated to version 6.08. Extra information has been added to the astronomy sun and moon page. An image gallery has been added using Plogger, an open-source photo gallery system. Added a new page (weather snippits) which will replace the blog. This page will include any notable weather feature throughout the year.
January 14th 2012 - Added who's online page. Image gallery of the snowfall of November / December 2010 added.
January 18th 2012 - Added a webcam image archive which stores 1,000 images taken at five minute intervals and a live webcam view page. Amended recent trends page to show additional wind speed plot.
January 21st 2012 - Added extra wind plot charts on the recent trends page.
February 2nd 2012 - Added latest webcam videos page which shows videos from the last 10 minutes, last hour, all day and yesterday.
February 4th 2012 - Added station graphs page using data previously uploaded to Bracken House's Weather Underground page.
February 12th 2012 - Added a page about why Selston Common Grasslands are a Site of Importance for Nature Conservation (click here).
February 16th 2012 - Added a Birds of Bracken House page.
March 9th 2012 - Weather station now has a solar sensor and is measuring sunshine hours, solar radiation, solar kilowatt-hours and evapotranspiration.
March 14th 2012 - Added snowfall and snow depth pages to the daily / monthly / seasonal section. Snowfall started recording on July 1st 2011 and snow depth on March 1st 2012. Also added snow totals to the daily records page.
March 16th 2012 - Added a wind hours and energy chart to the wind monthly summary page.
April 1st 2012 - Re-designed weather home page and re-named it 'Weather Summary'. This page now contains far more information than previously.
April 4th 2012 - Added an alternative dials page that doesn't use Flash, therefore works on iPad and iPhone. Find it here. Changed the sun and moon page to add more information and colour.
April 18th 2012 - Added a January 2012 image gallery - click here.