CWOP Information for CW8020 (C8020) in Meridian, ID US (site inactive)

The following information is known about CW8020. 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: 43° 38' 13" N (deg min sec), 43.6370° (decimal), 4338.22N (LORAN)
Longitude: 116° 25' 35" W (deg min sec), -116.4263° (decimal), 11625.58W (LORAN)
Elevation: 784 metres (2571 feet) -- validated against 780 metres (2558 feet) from NED Contiguous U. S. 1/3W arc second elevation data
Location: Meridian, ID US
County: Ada, ID
Forecast Office: Boise (BOI)
Station type/software: Virtual Weather Station / Davis Vantage Pro

The site location should be at the mark shown -- or very close. Clicking within the map area (or you can drag the 'CW8020' 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=c8020'. 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

Your data is flowing into findu.com, but no weather data is being received from findu.com.

A recently received report from this station was

CW8020>APRS,TCPXX*,qAX,CWOP-2:@120457z4309.53N/11102.03W_132/000g000t033r000P003p024h94b10047v31

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.

Data is being seen at findu.com, but this site is not currently marked as active. To fix this, send email to Randy Collander and ask him to activate your site.

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: Boise (BOI) .

SiteDistanceLocation
CW90090.9 milesNortheast Meridian, ID US (lat 43.6487°, long -116.4169°, altitude 783 metres) (data present)
DW65554.3 milesEast Boise, ID US (lat 43.6562°, long -116.3447°, altitude 799 metres) (data present)
AN7074.7 milesSoutheast St. Lukes Meridian, ID, United States of America (lat 43.6003°, long -116.3478°, altitude 826 metres) (data present)
DW17144.7 milesEast Boise, ID US (lat 43.6380°, long -116.3326°, altitude 806 metres)
DW00485.5 milesNortheast Eagle, ID US (lat 43.7095°, long -116.3805°, altitude 786 metres) (data present)
WA9UKW5.6 milesEast Boise, ID US (lat 43.6469°, long -116.3158°, altitude 811 metres) (data present)
CW75445.9 milesSouthwest Nampa, ID US (lat 43.5767°, long -116.5087°, altitude 774 metres) (data present)
KS676.2 milesSouthwest Nampa Municipal Airport, United States of America (lat 43.5813°, long -116.5231°, altitude 773 metres)
KMAN6.2 milesSouthwest Nampa, ID, United States (lat 43.5813°, long -116.5231°, altitude 773 metres) (data present)
ID928.0 milesNorthwest Snake River Skydiving Airport, United States of America (lat 43.7288°, long -116.5229°, altitude 777 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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