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About the Biltmore Lake Site
This website is automatically updated in near real time (about every 2.5 seconds) with weather observations from a Davis Vantage Vue personal weather station located in my backyard (altitude about 2175 ft.) in Biltmore Lake, NC. Weather data, sent wirelessly to a Davis weather console in my home, is output and processed by the weeWX weather software running on a $10 Raspberry Pi Zero W single board computer which archives it and feeds the website. The weather station provides the following readings:
- Temperature
- Humidity
- Wind speed
- Wind direction
- Rainfall
- 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:- KNCBL on PWSWeather.com
- FW3054 on CWOP
- KNCCANDL38 on Weather Underground
- weeWX open source weather station software
- HighCharts for the various charts on the website
- A custom-built theme designed by Pat O'Brien (developer and owner of the belchertownweather.com website).
- ncat for a socket server that the weather station directly connects to for live station data
- Eclipse Mosquitto message broker using the MQTT protocol for instant data transfer from weather station to website
- Custom PHP and JavaScript scripts, written and/or adapted by Pat O'Brien, to connect to the socket, parse the live station data and present it to you in real time
Special thanks to Pat O'Brien for his theme and personal help to me to implement it on my website!
Thanks to Thomas Keffer for developing weeWX and making it available to everyone
Support from members of the weewx-user group - many of whom have contributed to weeWX development and extensions to it
Forecast data and weather alerts powered by Aeris Weather's API
Earthquake data from USGS.gov Earthquake Catalog Developer API