CWOP Information for CW5780 (C5780) in Lee Vining, CA US

The following information is known about CW5780. 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: 37° 57' 23" N (deg min sec), 37.9565° (decimal), 3757.39N (LORAN)
Longitude: 119° 7' 10" W (deg min sec), -119.1195° (decimal), 11907.17W (LORAN)
Elevation: 2066 meters (6780 feet) -- validated against 2067 meters (6781 feet) from NED Contiguous U. S. 1/3W arc second elevation data
Location: Lee Vining, CA US
County: Mono, CA
Forecast Office: Reno (REV)
Station type/software: Virtual Weather Station / Davis WM II

The site location should be at the mark shown -- or very close. Clicking within the map area (or you can drag the 'CW5780' 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=c5780'. 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.

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: Reno (REV) .

SiteDistanceLocation
KO240.7 milesEast Lee Vining (lat 37.9583°, long -119.1065°, altitude 2073 meters)
CW94966.0 milesNorth Mono City, CA US (lat 38.0413°, long -119.1420°, altitude 2064 meters)
CW46436.0 milesNorthwest Lee Vining, CA US (lat 38.0337°, long -119.1697°, altitude 2164 meters)
KO5721.9 milesNorth Bryant Fld (lat 38.2624°, long -119.2257°, altitude 1971 meters) (data present)
CW299822.5 milesSouth Mammoth Lakes, CA US (lat 37.6512°, long -118.9762°, altitude 2500 meters) (data present)
KMMH27.7 milesSoutheast Mammoth Lakes, CA, United States (lat 37.6240°, long -118.8378°, altitude 2173 meters) (data present)
K6IXA-229.9 milesSouthwest Yosemite Park, CA US (lat 37.7274°, long -119.5842°, altitude 2468 meters) (data present)
NV7238.6 milesNorth Sweetwater (lat 38.5098°, long -119.2168°, altitude 2083 meters)
DW082645.1 milesSouthwest Fish Camp, CA US (lat 37.4542°, long -119.6457°, altitude 1517 meters) (data present)
KHTH48.5 milesNortheast Hawthorne, NV, United States (lat 38.5444°, long -118.6343°, altitude 1285 meters)

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.


Website comments, problems etc to
Philip Gladstone

Last modified Monday, 01 September 2008
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