CWOP Information for KF7IS (AR795) in Lava Hot Springs, ID US

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Registered Location

Latitude: 42° 35' 10" N (deg min sec), 42.5862° (decimal), 4235.17N (LORAN)
Longitude: 111° 58' 30" W (deg min sec), -111.9750° (decimal), 11158.50W (LORAN)
Elevation: 2020 metres (6627 feet) -- validated against 2013 metres (6604 feet) from NED 1/3rd arc-second: Western United States
Location: Lava Hot Springs, ID US
County: Bannock, ID
Forecast Office: Pocatello/Idaho Falls (PIH)
Site Manager/Operator: Jim
Station type/software: Kantronics KPC-3 Ver 9.0, PEET Ultimeter

The site location should be at the mark shown -- or very close. Clicking within the map area (or you can drag the 'KF7IS' marker) will display the latitude/longitude of that point.

If the displayed location (or elevation) of the weather observing location is incorrect, please drag the marker to the right location (or click in the right location), and then send the updated information. Please note that we are trying to spot either the Stevenson Screen (or equivalent) or the location where the barometric readings are taken.

NOTE: The Registered Location is the location that the station owner provided when they signed up with CWOP. Show location history.

There are no photographs of the station. If you are the site operator and have pictures of this location, then please upload them to Flickr (detailed instructions) and add the two tags 'wxtagged' and 'wx:cwop=ar795'. If the picture is of the weather station itself, then please also add the 'wx:station' tag as well.

You can try to find photographs from the area surrounding the site marker by clicking on Find nearby photographs.

APRS Status

No data has been seen recently. Please check at findu.com to see if your data is being seen there.

Weather data was seen at findu.com around 524 days ago on 2010-09-05.

A recently received report from this station was

KF7IS>APN390,KINPRT*,qAR,K7SEE-1:$ULTW00BA007C02540572277CFFF6EF26000101BF002A011D00000096

If this is not a weather report, then your station may not be transmitting weather reports, and this may be the problem. Check the recent reports at findu.com to see if any look like weather reports.

A reasonably recent weather report (524 days ago) received from this station was
KF7IS>APN390,KINPRT*,qAR,K7SEE-1:$ULTW00BA007C02540572277CFFF6EF26000101BF002A011D00000096

Neighboring Stations

This is a list of stations that are close to this station.

You can also subscribe to an RSS feed to tell you when new stations come online in this area. Choose either within 100 miles or 250 miles . For stations covered by your Forecast Office: Pocatello/Idaho Falls (PIH) .

SiteDistanceLocation
K7FLY-93.3 milesNorthwest Lava Hot Springs, ID US (lat 42.6074°, long -112.0335°, altitude 1605 metres)
KU5110.8 milesNortheast Bancroft Muni, ID, United States of America (lat 42.7208°, long -111.8675°, altitude 1656 metres)
KU5813.0 milesSouthwest Downey/Hyde Memorial Airport, United States of America (lat 42.4263°, long -112.1091°, altitude 1495 metres)
CW512813.8 milesNortheast Chesterfield, ID US (lat 42.7545°, long -111.8312°, altitude 1685 metres) (data present)
DW373116.2 milesNorthwest Inkom, ID US (lat 42.7773°, long -112.1600°, altitude 2037 metres) (data present)
KU7820.5 milesEast Soda Springs / Tigert, ID, United States (lat 42.6416°, long -111.5799°, altitude 1780 metres) (data present)
CW521227.1 milesNorthwest Pocatello, ID US (lat 42.8726°, long -112.3380°, altitude 1871 metres) (data present)
CW444830.9 milesSouth Preston, ID US (lat 42.1455°, long -111.8717°, altitude 1524 metres)
AN70431.8 milesNorthwest Pocatello Garrett and Gould, ID, United States of America (lat 42.8767°, long -112.4603°, altitude 1353 metres) (data present)
KU1033.3 milesSouth Preston Airport, United States of America (lat 42.1069°, long -111.9125°, altitude 1441 metres)

The sites marked above thus did not report continuously during the analysis period, so the offsets may (probably will) not be accurate.

Location Formats

The location is shown in three different formats. Each of these is used in some software, and is shown on some websites.

Degrees Minutes Seconds: VWS/VWSAPRS, WeatherLink 5.5, WeatherLink (5.2-5.4), WeatherView (Linux)

Decimal degrees: FreeWX, WeatherView32 (PC application)

LORAN: WeatherDisplay, WUHU, Henriksen WServer

Resources

CWOP Home: This describes the whole CWOP program and has a large amount of useful information.

CWOP Guide (PDF): This is a guide to siting and operating a CWOP station. This is a must-read document.

APRS WX Message format: This describes the actual format of the messages transmitted that carry WX information.

WXQC Mailing List: This is a mailing list where data quality issues are discussed. Assistance with software configuration can often be found here.

Topo Map Reading Guide: How to read USGS topographic maps, with a good section on reading contours.

Geographically nearby web pages: Use Geourl to find web pages that deal with locations geographically close to this site.


Overall website comments, problems etc to Philip Gladstone
Page layout last modified Wednesday, 08 February 2012
Questions for this weather station owner/operator to Jim
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