Ashford Weather Cam

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DISPLAY IS WEATHER LIVE FROM ASHFORD, WI.!

The above display refreshes itself every 6-7 seconds.

For a detailed weather history of today and the month,

click on the logo below.

Past 24 hour graph

The displays info is being fed into a computer running a program

called Weather Display V. 10.35. Click on the logo below for more info.

This station also uploads data to the following

Civilian and Government sites.

A Little History:

Badger Weather Net (BWN) was started December 14, 1964 by a handful of Wisconsin Amateur Radio operators (HAMS). Since that time the Badger Weather Net (BWN) has provided the National Weather Service (NWS) with valuable weather observations of high/low temperatures and precipitation from across the state. This collected data is utilized for input into the river forecast model, for public and fire weather forecasts, verification of watches and warnings, for local media use, and various research projects.

The BWN has grown over the years from only a handful of reporting sites to over nearly 60 stations that report the weather data daily. The weather reports are reported by radio on the frequency of 3.982.50 mhz every morning to one of the members. The net is operated from 6AM to 715AM seven days a week. In the early days the National Weather Service office in Milwaukee would call the Ham who collected the weather data and he would relay the data to them via voice over the telephone.

This reporting procedure was later improved. In June of 1995 the NWS gave the weather relay stations a computer program that allowed the weather pickup station to enter the data in the computer and send it via modem to the NWS office.

During December 1999, the reporting procedure was again improved. The NWS visited the reporting stations and installed a new version of the computer program allowing the sending stations to send the weather data direct via a secure internet connection.

Citizen Weather Observer Program

Ashford Weathers designation at CWOP is CW6301

You can find this data here: http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/wxpage.cgi?CW6301

The Citizen Weather Observer Program (CWOP) is a private-public partnership with three main goals: 1) to collect weather data contributed by citizens; 2) to make these data available for weather services and homeland security; and 3) to provide feedback to the data contributors so that they have the tools to check and improve their data quality. In fact, the web address, wxqa.com, stands for weather quality assurance. Tools that will help members improve their data quality are listed under the "Data Quality" link above left.

There are over 5,000 registered CWOP members world wide and a graph of the number of North American CWOP stations sending data over the past four days is shown under the older name APRSWXNET (APRS description). The number of world-wide citizen weather stations sending data through APRS-IS (Internet-Service) is shown for the past 48 hours.

The weather data are sent by internet alone and internet-wireless combiIS to the findu.com server. Every 15 minutes, the data are sent from the findu.com server to the NOAA MADIS program to become part of the NOAA mesonet data set. The data are checked for quality and then redistributed to users. There are over 400 different user organizations of mesonet data. Here is a partial list:

• NWS Weather Forecast Offices

• National Center for Environmental Prediction

• National Ocean Service

• National Center for Atmospheric Research

• Denver Urban Drainage and Flood Control District

• Kennedy Space Center

• NASA Marshall Space Flight Center

• University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

• Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

• MIT Lincoln Laboratories

Thanks for stopping by and remember, every weather day is a day created by God.