CWOP Information for DW0283 (D0283) in Poinciana, FL US

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Registered Location

Latitude: 28° 9' 38" N (deg min sec), 28.1607° (decimal), 2809.64N (LORAN)
Longitude: 81° 30' 7" W (deg min sec), -81.5018° (decimal), 08130.11W (LORAN)
Elevation: 21 meters (68 feet) -- validated against 21 meters (69 feet) from NED Contiguous U. S. 1/3E arc second elevation data
Location: Poinciana, FL US
County: Osceola, FL
Forecast Office: Melbourne (MLB)
Station type/software: Virtual Weather Station / WMR968

The site location should be at the mark shown -- or very close. Clicking within the map area (or you can drag the 'DW0283' 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.

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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 44 days ago on 2008-10-19.

A reasonably recent weather report (44 days ago) received from this station was
DW0283>APRS,TCPXX*,qAX,CWOP-3:@191154z2809.63N/08130.12W_344/006g006t059r000P000p000h81b10180v8

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: Melbourne (MLB) .

SiteDistanceLocation
K9YAP1.0 milesNortheast Kissimmee, FL US (lat 28.1718°, long -81.4903°, altitude 21 meters)
DW11134.2 milesEast Kissimmee, FL US (lat 28.1505°, long -81.4333°, altitude 24 meters) (data present)
KG4JSZ8.1 milesSouthwest Haines City, FL US (lat 28.0993°, long -81.6156°, altitude 41 meters) (data present)
KISM9.8 milesNortheast Kissimmee Airport, FL, United States (lat 28.2898°, long -81.4371°, altitude 25 meters) (data present)
KG4FZO-710.8 milesNortheast Kissimmee, FL US (lat 28.2950°, long -81.4102°, altitude 20 meters) (data present)
WC4PEM-1411.4 milesNorthwest Davenport, FL US (lat 28.2545°, long -81.6547°, altitude 53 meters) (data present)
WC4PEM-1512.0 milesSouthwest Dundee, FL US (lat 28.0097°, long -81.5995°, altitude 69 meters) (data present)
KGIF16.8 milesSouthwest Winter Haven(asos), FL, United States (lat 28.0622°, long -81.7542°, altitude 44 meters) (data present)
KI4CFC17.0 milesSouthwest Winter Haven, FL US (lat 27.9625°, long -81.6653°, altitude 50 meters) (data present)
CW934717.4 milesNorth Orlando, FL US (lat 28.4025°, long -81.4218°, altitude 25 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 Saturday, 29 November 2008
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