CWOP Information for DW2721 (D2721) in Ponchatoula, LA US

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Registered Location

Latitude: 30° 27' 36" N (deg min sec), 30.4600° (decimal), 3027.60N (LORAN)
Longitude: 90° 27' 0" W (deg min sec), -90.4499° (decimal), 09026.99W (LORAN)
Elevation: 7 metres (23 feet) -- validated against 7 metres (24 feet) from NED 1/9th arc-second: Louisiana
Location: Ponchatoula, LA US
County: Tangipahoa, LA
Forecast Office: New Orleans/Baton Rouge (LIX)
Site Manager/Operator: Scott
Station type/software: Weather Display / WMR200

The site location should be at the mark shown -- or very close. Clicking within the map area (or you can drag the 'DW2721' 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=d2721'. 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 126 days ago on 2011-10-05.

A recently received report from this station was

DW2721>APRS,TCPXX*,qAX,CWOP-1:@041231z3027.60N/09027.00W_340/000g000t046r000p000P000b10240h00.WD 233

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.

A reasonably recent weather report (127 days ago) received from this station was
DW2721>APRS,TCPXX*,qAX,CWOP-1:@041231z3027.60N/09027.00W_340/000g000t046r000p000P000b10240h00.WD 233

Neighboring Stations

This is a list of stations that are close to this station.

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SiteDistanceLocation
KHDC4.7 milesNortheast Hammond, Hammond Municipal Airport, LA, United States (lat 30.5217°, long -90.4184°, altitude 13 metres) (data present)
DW32707.1 milesNorthwest Hammond, LA US (lat 30.5332°, long -90.5345°, altitude 18 metres) (data present)
DW311115.3 milesEast Madisonville, LA US (lat 30.3900°, long -90.2060°, altitude 0 metres) (data present)
DW776318.0 milesWest Livingston, LA US (lat 30.4830°, long -90.7513°, altitude 13 metres)
W5VQG21.1 milesEast Covington, LA US (lat 30.5037°, long -90.0995°, altitude 10 metres)
DW360822.6 milesEast Mandeville, LA US (lat 30.4175°, long -90.0735°, altitude 2 metres)
AN24423.8 milesSouthwest French Settlement, LA, United States of America (lat 30.3150°, long -90.8114°, altitude 4 metres) (data present)
DW564823.8 milesEast Mandeville, LA US (lat 30.3990°, long -90.0565°, altitude 7 metres) (data present)
DW682924.0 milesEast Mandeville, LA US (lat 30.3583°, long -90.0656°, altitude 6 metres) (data present)
K1L027.0 milesSouth Reserve St John The Baptist Parish, LA, United States of America (lat 30.0870°, long -90.5827°, altitude 2 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 Saturday, 04 February 2012
Questions for this weather station owner/operator to Scott
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