This website is automatically updated in real time (about every 60 seconds) with weather observations from a Ambient WS-2902A personal weather station located in the Nettleton District of Spokane, WA. Weather data is received from a WiFi connection and the Interceptor driver and processed by the weewx weather software for archive and for the website feed. The weather station provides the following readings:

• Temperature
• Humidity
• Wind speed
• Wind direction
• Rainfall
• UV
• Solar radiation/Illuminance
• Barometric Pressure

The rest of the observations indicated on this website are done via software calculations and quality control checks to make sure the data is valid.

All weather observations are also posted to the following websites:

• FW4353 on CWOP
• KWASPOKA85 on PWSWeather.com
• KWASPOKA85 on Weathercloud.net
• KWASPOKA85 on OpenWeatherMap

 

Software used:

• weewx weather data logger
• HighCharts for the various charts on the website
• A custom-built theme based on Belchertown for the Nettleton District Weather Station
• hostapd WiFi with pcap service that the weather station directly connects to for live station data
• MQTT as the broker for instant data transfer from weather station to website
• interceptor for sniffing port 80 from the WiFi connection.

 

Read more:

1. https://github.com/weewx/weewx/wiki/hostapd-WiFi-setup-for-Interceptor-driver
2. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/weewx-user/bks8RhOINP4

 

Credits:

• Logo from TownMapsUSA for West Central/Nettleton District in Spokane, Washington
• Forecast data Powered by Dark Sky
• Earthquake data from USGS.gov Earthquake Catalog Developer API