CWOP Information for CW6083 (C6083) in Tom Price, AU

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Registered Location

Latitude: 22° 41' 37" S (deg min sec), -22.6937° (decimal), 2241.62S (LORAN)
Longitude: 117° 47' 19" E (deg min sec), 117.7886° (decimal), 11747.31E (LORAN)
Elevation: 729 metres (2392 feet) -- validated against 727 metres (2385 feet) from SRTM.C_AUS_3
Location: Tom Price, AU
Site Manager/Operator: Chris
Station type/software: Virtual Weather Station / DavisVP2

The site location should be at the mark shown -- or very close. Clicking within the map area (or you can drag the 'CW6083' 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=c6083'. 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.

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 .

SiteDistanceLocation
953161.2 milesWest Tom Price, Australia (lat -22.6967°, long 117.7703°, altitude 746 metres)
YPBO33.1 milesSouth Paraburdoo Airport, WA, Australia (lat -23.1711°, long 117.7450°, altitude 428 metres)
9431633.2 milesSouth Paraburdoo Aero, Australia (lat -23.1725°, long 117.7494°, altitude 424 metres) (data present)
9531035.9 milesSouth Paraburdoo, WA, Australia (lat -23.2000°, long 117.6667°, altitude 391 metres)
VK6MRG-1536.0 milesSouth Paraburdoo, AU (lat -23.2027°, long 117.6677°, altitude 388 metres) (data present)
9431346.9 milesNortheast Wittenoom, Australia (lat -22.2425°, long 118.3358°, altitude 464 metres) (data present)
YCWA68.0 milesEast Coondewanna Wa Airport, WA, Australia (lat -22.9667°, long 118.8130°, altitude 701 metres)
YBRY87.9 milesEast Barimunya Airport, WA, Australia (lat -22.6739°, long 119.1660°, altitude 634 metres)
9531291.8 milesNortheast Wittenoom, WA, Australia (lat -21.9833°, long 119.0000°, altitude 387 metres)
YFDF109.0 milesEast Fortescue Dave Forrest (lat -22.2918°, long 119.4373°, altitude <unknown> 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 Chris
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