HADS Information for BLKQ2 in Blackwall Peak, Canada (site inactive)

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Registered Location

Latitude: 49° 5' 40" N (deg min sec), 49.0944° (decimal), 4905.67N (LORAN)
Longitude: 120° 46' 14" W (deg min sec), -120.7706° (decimal), 12046.23W (LORAN)
Elevation: 1931 metres (6336 feet) -- validated against 1934 metres (6344 feet) from NED 1 arc-second: Contiguous United States Mexico and Portions of Canada
Location: Blackwall Peak, Canada

The site location should be at the mark shown -- or very close. Clicking within the map area (or you can drag the 'BLKQ2' 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.

Can you help with location quality? Please indicate if the marker on the map points at the weather instrument cluster:

The location information for this site was gathered from 1 data source. The source which most closely matches the consensus is chosen. Many of these sources only report the location to the nearest minute (or hundredth of degree). This can lead to the marker being placed noticeably incorrectly. Please see Discussion of Location Errors for more information. Show location history.

Date	Latitude	Longitude	Elevation	Name
2013-11-18	49.0944	-120.7706	1931	Blackwall Peak, BC, United States of America
2013-12-17	49.0944	-120.7706	1931	Blackwall Peak, BC, United States Of America
2014-01-02	49.0944	-120.7706	1931	Blackwall Peak, BC, Canada

The position of the clicked point on the map is:

The position of the 'BLKQ2' 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 have pictures of this location, then please email them to blkq2@photo.gladstonefamily.net.

Picture Submission

There are two ways to submit pictures. If you are a flickr user, then see the flickr section below. Otherwise you can simply email the pictures as follows:

Email the pictures to blkq2@photo.gladstonefamily.net.
If you use a smartphone that embeds the GPS coordinates in the pictures, then you can send any picture of a weather station to gps@photo.gladstonefamily.net and it will be associated with the correct station automatically.

Flickr Upload

Uploading picktures to flickr.com is easy. If you do not have a free flickr account, then you need to create one. Just go to flickr and click the 'Create your account' button. You can use a google account if you have one.

Once logged in, click on 'Upload Photos & Video'. Next click on 'Choose Photos and Videos', and walk through the process to upload your pictures. They will automatically be resized appropriately.

After the upload is complete, it will ask you to add titles, tags and descriptions. The key step is to add tags as follows:

wxtagged -- this indicates that this picture is of a weather station or surrounding area
wx:id=blkq2 -- this indicates the site of which this is a picture
wxstation -- add this tag if the picture includes the weather station.

If you had to create your account, then you must upload at least five pictures. It will also take longer for your pictures to appear (a week or so). Otherwise, the pictures should appear after 24-48 hours.

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)

Data Status

Data is being received for this station, but until the end of day processing has been run (about 12 hours after the end of the UTC day), the graphs will not appear.

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 .

Site	Distance		Location
FW3354	24.2 miles	Northwest	Hope, CA (lat 49.2705°, long -121.2335°, altitude 692 metres) (data present)
CW6697	39.2 miles	Southeast	Winthrop, WA, US (lat 48.5823°, long -120.4007°, altitude 639 metres) (data present)
GW3555	40.9 miles	Southeast	MAZAMA, WA, US (lat 48.5622°, long -120.3780°, altitude 670 metres) (data present)
FW6772	50.2 miles	Southeast	Winthrop, WA, US (lat 48.4850°, long -120.1743°, altitude 641 metres) (data present)
FW3177	54.5 miles	West	Chilliwack, CA (lat 49.1065°, long -121.9732°, altitude 29 metres) (data present)
GW3557	57.4 miles	Southeast	CONCONULLY, WA, US (lat 48.6077°, long -119.7495°, altitude 1351 metres) (data present)
GW2815	70.3 miles	North	Merritt, CA (lat 50.1113°, long -120.7820°, altitude 596 metres) (data present)
GW0809	73.3 miles	West	EVERSON, WA, US (lat 48.9023°, long -122.3595°, altitude 34 metres) (data present)
GW0993	76.4 miles	West	Lynden, WA, US (lat 48.9517°, long -122.4403°, altitude 36 metres) (data present)
GW2737	77.4 miles	West	Lynden, WA, US (lat 48.9470°, long -122.4630°, altitude 33 metres) (data present)

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 Siting Guide (PDF): This is a guide to siting and operating a CWOP station. This is a must-read document.

Another CWOP Guide (PDF): This is another guide to siting and operating a CWOP station. This is a must-read document.

Urban Siting and Operations (PDF): This is a guide to siting and operating a CWOP station in an urban environment.

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 Sunday, 28 February 2016
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