CWOP Information for CW5688 (C5688) in Rock Springs, WY US (site inactive)

The following information is known about CW5688. If you think that any information is incorrect, then please follow the instructions for correcting that data item.

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Registered Location

Latitude: 41° 35' 59" N (deg min sec), 41.5998° (decimal), 4135.99N (LORAN)
Longitude: 109° 15' 4" W (deg min sec), -109.2510° (decimal), 10915.06W (LORAN)
Elevation: 1955 metres (6414 feet) -- validated against 1949 metres (6396 feet) from NED Contiguous U. S. 1/3W arc second elevation data
Location: Rock Springs, WY US
County: Sweetwater, WY
Forecast Office: Riverton (RIW)
Station type/software: Davis Vantage Pro 2/Vue with Weatherlink

The site location should be at the mark shown -- or very close. Clicking within the map area (or you can drag the 'CW5688' 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.

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=c5688'. 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 959 days ago on 2009-06-27.

A recently received report from this station was

CW5688>APRS,TCPXX*,qAX,CWOP-3:@271158z4135.97N/10915.07W_180/000g...t047r...p...P000h83b10231.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.

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: Riverton (RIW) .

SiteDistanceLocation
CW20422.4 milesSoutheast RockSprings-EOC, WY US (lat 41.5787°, long -109.2145°, altitude 1941 metres) (data present)
725749.6 milesEast Rock Springs, US (lat 41.5942°, long -109.0652°, altitude 2060 metres)
KRKS10.3 milesEast ROCK SPRINGS-SWEETWATER CO, WY, United States (lat 41.5944°, long -109.0529°, altitude 2060 metres) (data present)
KCMS12.1 milesWest Cemetery Separa, WY, United States (lat 41.5333°, long -109.4667°, altitude 1949 metres)
KOCS12.2 milesEast Rock Spngs(vor), US (lat 41.5833°, long -109.0167°, altitude 2060 metres)
K48U15.8 milesSouthwest Green River Gtr Green River Intergalactic Spaceport, WY, United States of America (lat 41.4581°, long -109.4899°, altitude 2189 metres)
AN77529.7 milesWest MOXA, WY, United States of America (lat 41.7506°, long -109.7897°, altitude 1967 metres) (data present)
KBIT34.7 milesEast Bittercreek, WY, United States (lat 41.6500°, long -108.5833°, altitude 2160 metres)
DW065637.5 milesNorthwest Seedskadee NWR, WY US (lat 41.9046°, long -109.8513°, altitude 1927 metres) (data present)
UT1142.3 milesSouth Intermountain Medical Center Helipad, United States of America (lat 40.9900°, long -109.1965°, altitude 2067 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
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