CWOP Information for CW3212 (C3212) in Buffalo Mountain, VA US

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Registered Location

Latitude: 36° 50' 18" N (deg min sec), 36.8384° (decimal), 3650.30N (LORAN)
Longitude: 80° 27' 13" W (deg min sec), -80.4537° (decimal), 08027.22W (LORAN)
Elevation: 934 metres (3063 feet) -- validated against 928 metres (3043 feet) from NED 1/3rd arc-second: Eastern United States
Location: Buffalo Mountain, VA US
County: Floyd, VA
Forecast Office: Roanoke (RNK)
Site Manager/Operator: John
Station type/software: Davis Vantage Pro 2/Vue with Weatherlink
Website: http://virginiamountains.com/weather/

The site location should be at the mark shown -- or very close. Clicking within the map area (or you can drag the 'CW3212' 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=c3212'. 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 639 days ago on 2010-05-14.

A recently received report from this station was

CW3212>APRS,TCPXX*,qAX,CWOP-3:@141247z3650.30N/08027.22W_314/006g011t068r000p000P000h82b10291.DsVP

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 (639 days ago) received from this station was
CW3212>APRS,TCPXX*,qAX,CWOP-3:@141247z3650.30N/08027.22W_314/006g011t068r000p000P000h82b10291.DsVP

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: Roanoke (RNK) .

SiteDistanceLocation
AK4AT0.0 milesSouth Willis, VA US (lat 36.8384°, long -80.4538°, altitude 933 metres) (data present)
WG4R5.6 milesSoutheast Meadows of Dan, VA US (lat 36.7697°, long -80.4015°, altitude 945 metres)
1VA17.1 milesSouth Micro Airport, United States of America (lat 36.7352°, long -80.4488°, altitude 890 metres)
DW53127.2 milesSouth Meadows of Dan, VA US (lat 36.7343°, long -80.4425°, altitude 887 metres) (data present)
CW770915.8 milesNorth Pilot, VA US (lat 37.0569°, long -80.3682°, altitude 750 metres) (data present)
DW868716.0 milesNortheast Check, VA US (lat 37.0187°, long -80.2714°, altitude 804 metres) (data present)
KFCX16.2 milesNortheast Roanoke NEXRAD, VA, United States (lat 37.0242°, long -80.2742°, altitude 904 metres)
DW386816.7 milesSouthwest Hillsville, VA US (lat 36.7000°, long -80.7000°, altitude 883 metres) (data present)
CW868217.0 milesNortheast Terry's Fork, VA US (lat 37.0373°, long -80.2722°, altitude 781 metres) (data present)
CW539717.1 milesNorth Christiansburg, VA US (lat 37.0847°, long -80.4250°, altitude 625 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 John
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