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Location
Approximately 1 mile East of Highway 441 and 1¾ miles South of Highway 41 in Kimberly, Wisconsin.
44° 16' 11" N , -88° 20' 17" W elevation 736 ft.
About This Site
This site was started on May 10, 2003 to make data from my home weather station available to the public. The current weather, archive data, and daily weather stats for this web site come from sensors mounted at my home in Kimberly, Wisconsin. The current weather is usually updated every five minutes.
Temperature and rainfall data from this location is reported daily to the National Weather Service via the NWS Cooperative Observer Program.
Station ID : KIMW3
Station Name : Kimberly
Weather Instruments
A cabled Davis Vantage Pro is the source for all web site temperature, humidity, rain and wind data. An AthlonXP 2100+ PC monitors the weather station, updates the website and streams the weathercam. Weatherlink is the software used to read data from the weather station, create the HTML files and graphics, and upload them to the website.
The temperature and humidity sensors are housed in an aspirated enclosure and are suspended 5 feet above ground on a tower on the north side of my home.
Rain Gauges
Davis Vantage Pro
Resolution 0.01"
Mounted on post 5 feet above ground in garden. It's the source for all web site current rainfall amounts.
Productive Alternatives
All Weather Rain Gauge
4 inch collector - resolution 0.01"
Provided by the NWS - Milwaukee.
Mounted on post 5 feet above ground in garden
Daily rainfall totals are taken from this gauge and reported to the NWS via the coop observer program.
Anemometer
Wind speed and direction instruments are mounted on a tower approximately 50 feet off the ground.
Weather Cam
The Weather Cam is mounted approximately 53 feet off the ground and sits on an antenna rotor.
Snow Equipment
Snow instruments include a snow board, snow gauge board, snow stick and snow gauge.
Frost Depth Gauge
Frost depth measurements are taken every Monday and Thursday, November 1st through April 30th with a six foot frost depth gauge.
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