CWOP Information for CW8825 (C8825) in Gurabo, PR US

The following information is known about CW8825. 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: 18° 15' 22" N (deg min sec), 18.2561° (decimal), 1815.37N (LORAN)
Longitude: 66° 6' 49" W (deg min sec), -66.1135° (decimal), 06606.81W (LORAN)
Elevation: 298 meters (977 feet) -- validated against 290 meters (953 feet) from NED Puerto Rico 1 arc-second elevation data
Location: Gurabo, PR US
County: Aguas Buenas, PR
Forecast Office: San Juan (SJU)
Station type/software: Virtual Weather Station / WS2010

The site location should be at the mark shown -- or very close. Clicking within the map area (or you can drag the 'CW8825' 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.

The position of the clicked point on the map is:

The position of the 'CW8825' marker on the map is:

Latitude: dummy (deg min sec), dummy (decimal), dummy (LORAN)
Longitude: dummy (deg min sec), dummy (decimal), dummy (LORAN)

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=c8825'. 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. (There are some) (There are none) (There may be some) (Automatically loaded if any)

Status: Searching... Status: None found.

Clicking on the map above will redo the search centered on the clicked point.

Status: 3 found.

Clicking on the map above will redo the search centered on the clicked point.

You can try to find photographs from the area surrounding the selected point 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 447 days ago on 2008-04-13.

A reasonably recent weather report (489 days ago) received from this station was
CW8825>APRS,TCPXX*,qAX,CORE-2:@021303z1815.37N/06606.81W_158/000g000t073r002P002p002h88b09978v2

The problem with missing data may be that the station software is configured to send data to the old servers. If you are the station operator, then please change the configuration to send data to cwop.aprs.net on port 14580. See http://www.wxqa.com/servers2use.html for the full story.

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: San Juan (SJU) .

Site	Distance		Location
CW7468	6.9 miles	North	Bayamon, PR US (lat 18.3515°, long -66.1425°, altitude 40 meters)
CW8822	7.5 miles	Southeast	Caguas, PR US (lat 18.2052°, long -66.0124°, altitude 196 meters)
KP4LA	9.1 miles	Northeast	Trujillo Alto, PR US (lat 18.3587°, long -66.0278°, altitude 82 meters) (data present)
N1TKK-1	9.9 miles	North	San Juan, PR US (lat 18.3955°, long -66.0810°, altitude 18 meters)
TJUA	10.0 miles	South	San Juan/cayey, US (lat 18.1156°, long -66.0781°, altitude 852 meters)
KP4IA	11.1 miles	Northwest	Toa Alta, PR US (lat 18.3900°, long -66.2055°, altitude 20 meters)
CW2005	11.2 miles	Northeast	Rio Piedras, PR US (lat 18.4037°, long -66.0418°, altitude 16 meters)
CW5312	12.0 miles	North	Hato Rey, PR US (lat 18.4217°, long -66.0567°, altitude 29 meters)
DW2524	12.9 miles	Northeast	Carolina, PR US (lat 18.3803°, long -65.9675°, altitude 30 meters)
KP3G	13.3 miles	East	Juncos, PR US (lat 18.1943°, long -65.9211°, altitude 152 meters) (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.

Website comments, problems etc to

Philip Gladstone

Last modified Sunday, 29 March 2009
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