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Weather Station Readout:

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Wind Chill
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53 °F
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| Heat
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53 °F |
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Dew Point
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50 °F
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Peak Wind
Gust
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5 mph
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12:14 am
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High Since
Midnight
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56 °F
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12:00 am
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Low
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53 °F
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02:27 am
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This Month's
Rain
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0.92
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Lightning
Counts
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0 Lc
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Solar
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3 WM²
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Sunrise
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06:36 am
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Sunset
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07:27 pm
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Updated
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09/07/08
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02:35 am
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GOES
Satellite Water Vapor Image
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GOES
Satellite Infrared Cloud Height Image

Dark Gray = Low; Dark Green; Yellow; Red; Green; White=
High
(Only changes once per hour.)
Dark & gray areas are drier/cloud
free. Colors indicate cloud height by temperature. Colder clouds
are higher/thicker and can produce more precipitation. A black map
is a satellite mis-read. Click the map for a full current image
at the NOAA site.
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Current
1-Hour Rainfall - Radar
Click for the full image at the NOAA site.
Cyan is light precipitation - Blue - Green - Yellow - Red - Purple
- White is heaviest.
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The weather
station instruments are located on roof of Boebel Hall, with a real-time
display on the second floor. The station is a Texas
Instruments WLS-8000 using
Weather View
32 v6.0 Professional software (we have v7
but the setup is incompatible with v6 and we have to find time to
start from scratch for the upgrade)..
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All
pages are updated every 5 minutes; the "Trends" the "Area" page ; the
"Current
Text Summary" and the "Past
24-hour" text page. However, all data from
outside sources (Satellite, Metar stations) is only updated once per
hour.
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