This site focuses on weather in and about Norwood, NY and St. Lawrence County.
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This is a hobby project, and, while I work to have things as up-to-date and correct as I can, no guarantees are given about the information here.
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As of June 2024, this site employs a homemade array of sensing and recording devices for local conditions (i.e., whatever is going on in my side yard). Non-local info is gathered from NWS websites and others and processed for presentation here.
The enclosures and support stuctures for the various elements were designed with Fusion 360 software, and 3d printed on a Bambu P1P printer.
The sensors are of my own design. Several of them use Arduino Nano microprocessors. All units involving motion employ LED motion sensors. Environmental conditions are gathered by a BME280 sensor. These units feed data directly via I2C serial communication to a Raspberry Pi 4. As of 1/2025, the temperature data is received via wifi from an ESP-32 unit employing a 2nd BME280 sensor, placed far out in the yard to avoid heat radiated from the house.
The Pi 4 computer creates the framework for the web pages, does most of the data crunching, generates graphs and reports, and populates most of the text data.
The various 'cameras' are gathered with several different Single Board Computers employing various types of interfaced cameras. These process the images to include the date and other data. The SBCs send their still photos directly to the web and also to a 2nd Raspberry Pi 4 for other use. That Pi 4 handles a lot of the other non-sensor jobs, including generating the "weather cam" movies, gathering imagery and some data from the National Weather Service, and a few tasks for other things around the house that don't relate to the weather site.
The Adruino embedded microprocessors are programmed using Arduino's variant of C++. The majority of the code for all other devices is written in Python or as bash scripts.
Alas, the software and systems are under development (and probably always will be...). I'm swatting bugs as fast as they buzz up. It's a big bunch'o'code, and a host of mechanical/electronic oddities. From time to time things get a bit askew. Working on it. It keeps me out of the pool hall.
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