CWOP Information for N8XD (AS674) in Freeland, MI US

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Registered Location

Latitude: 43° 31' 14" N (deg min sec), 43.5207° (decimal), 4331.24N (LORAN)
Longitude: 84° 6' 44" W (deg min sec), -84.1122° (decimal), 08406.73W (LORAN)
Elevation: 194 metres (635 feet) -- validated against 191 metres (625 feet) from NED Contiguous U. S. 1/3E arc second elevation data
Location: Freeland, MI US
County: Saginaw, MI
Forecast Office: Detroit (DTX)
Site Manager/Operator: Keith
Station type/software: Weather Underground / HeavyWeather Uploader 2.1.6 / WS-23xx

The site location should be at the mark shown -- or very close. Clicking within the map area (or you can drag the 'N8XD' 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=as674'. 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 680 days ago on 2010-04-03.

A recently received report from this station was

N8XD>APRS,TCPXX*,qAX,CWOP-2:@031247z4331.24N/08406.73W_185/009g014t059r000p000P000h55b10047eWUHU21623XXSP.

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 (680 days ago) received from this station was
N8XD>APRS,TCPXX*,qAX,CWOP-2:@031247z4331.24N/08406.73W_185/009g014t059r000p000P000h55b10047eWUHU21623XXSP.

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: Detroit (DTX) .

SiteDistanceLocation
KMBS1.8 milesNortheast MBS INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, MI, United States (lat 43.5329°, long -84.0796°, altitude 204 metres) (data present)
DW92505.5 milesNorth Auburn, MI US (lat 43.6000°, long -84.1000°, altitude 188 metres) (data present)
DW44475.8 milesNorth Auburn, MI US (lat 43.6037°, long -84.1226°, altitude 194 metres) (data present)
DW00656.9 milesWest Midland, MI US (lat 43.5542°, long -84.2427°, altitude 192 metres) (data present)
KC8YVF-17.0 milesSoutheast Saginaw, MI US (lat 43.4428°, long -84.0243°, altitude 186 metres) (data present)
N8AVR8.0 milesSouth Shields, MI US (lat 43.4132°, long -84.0535°, altitude 181 metres)
DW83918.7 milesNorthwest Midland, MI US (lat 43.6267°, long -84.2072°, altitude 642 metres) (data present)
DW218710.4 milesSoutheast Saginaw, MI US (lat 43.4256°, long -83.9526°, altitude 194 metres) (data present)
K3CM11.0 milesEast Bay City James Clements Muni, MI, United States of America (lat 43.5469°, long -83.8955°, altitude 178 metres)
AN29111.6 milesEast BAY CITY, MI, United States of America (lat 43.5714°, long -83.8908°, altitude 390 metres) (data present)

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 Keith
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