CWOP Information for CW9916 (C9916) in Elizabeth, NJ US

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Registered Location

Latitude: 40° 40' 0" N (deg min sec), 40.6667° (decimal), 4040.00N (LORAN)
Longitude: 74° 14' 0" W (deg min sec), -74.2333° (decimal), 07414.00W (LORAN)
Elevation: 6 meters (19 feet) -- validated against 11 meters (37 feet) from NED Contiguous U. S. 1/3E arc second elevation data
Location: Elizabeth, NJ US
County: Union, NJ
Forecast Office: New York City (OKX)
Station type/software: Davis Vantage Pro 2 with Weatherlink

The site coordinates appear to be of low precision, and the station may be anywhere within the marked area. Clicking within the map area (or you can drag the 'CW9916' 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=c9916'. 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 123 days ago on 2008-09-06.

A reasonably recent weather report (123 days ago) received from this station was
CW9916>APRS,TCPXX*,qAX,CWOP-2:@061203z4040.00N/07414.00W_023/002g009t077P030h00b10123.DsVP

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: New York City (OKX) .

SiteDistanceLocation
CW37120.9 milesNorth Union, NJ US (lat 40.6803°, long -74.2338°, altitude 12 meters) (data present)
KLDJ3.5 milesSouth Linden, NJ, United States (lat 40.6174°, long -74.2446°, altitude 7 meters) (data present)
KEWR3.8 milesNortheast Newark Intl Airp, NJ, United States (lat 40.6925°, long -74.1687°, altitude 9 meters) (data present)
DW04975.0 milesNorth Keansburg, NJ US (lat 40.7350°, long -74.2022°, altitude 4 meters)
CW82415.9 milesNortheast Newark, NJ US (lat 40.7400°, long -74.1775°, altitude 40 meters)
DW00376.1 milesEast Bayonne, NJ US (lat 40.6713°, long -74.1180°, altitude 6 meters) (data present)
HSNN47.1 milesNortheast Harrison, NJ US (lat 40.7482°, long -74.1518°, altitude 7 meters) (data present)
CW72107.7 milesNorthwest Short Hills, NJ US (lat 40.7390°, long -74.3447°, altitude 87 meters) (data present)
DW00738.3 milesSouthwest Edison, NJ US (lat 40.5917°, long -74.3563°, altitude 120 meters) (data present)
DW14198.6 milesNorthwest Summit, NJ US (lat 40.7368°, long -74.3686°, altitude 76 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 Wednesday, 07 January 2009
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