🌤 AWS Austin Weather

About: Abatar's Weather Station (AWS)

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This site archives and delivers near real-time environmental metrics directly from South-East Austin, Tx.

Station Features & Technology

Davis 6163 Wireless Vantage Pro2 Plus: Built with an Aspirated Radiation Shield, integrated UV, and Solar radiation sensors for highly accurate, professional meteorological logging.
Virtual Real-Time Streams: Powered by customized AJAX scripts designed to pull and cycle instantaneous live updates directly from the weather instruments in seconds.
Interactive Gizmo: To check out custom telemetry visualizers, click the Gizmo Name link on the navigation menu map.
The Home Page only displays values greater than zero. If you want to see all the values, click on the [More] link at the top of the panel on the Home Page.
Visual Data Staleness indicators on Ajax Gizmo: To track real-time refresh frames easily, specific layout components change colors dynamically over time:
• Data updates showcase in Green for 3 seconds.
• Transitions start at White for 2 minutes.
• Adjusts to Yellow at 5 minutes.
• Shifts to Blue at 10 minutes.
• Concludes on Red if stalled.
• Paging arrays execute a clean automatic document reload every 60 minutes to re-synchronize live metrics.

Barometric Pressure: Dynamic tracking rates converted into automated textual trends: “Steady”, “Slow”, or “Fast”.
Beaufort Wind Scales: Converts raw velocities safely onto the standard scale: “Calm”, “Lt air”, “Lt breeze”, “Gntl breeze”, “Mod breeze”, “Frsh breeze”, “Strng breeze”, “Near gale”, “Gale”, “Strong gale”, “Storm”, “Vlnt storm”, “Hurricane”.
Wind Vector Compass: Tracks speeds and wind directions configured onto 16 distinct compass headings, guided visually by tiny blue navigation arrows highlighting source origins.

Body Comfort Index: Real-time calculated evaluation outputs checking for: Extreme Cold, Uncomfortably Cold, Cool, Warm, Uncomfortably Hot, or Extreme Hot.
Dew Point Thresholds: Segmented index tiers logging: Ok, Low, Slight, Caution, Extreme, and Danger, usually over 60 degrees Fahrenheit.
Heat Stress: Calculated formula alerts mapped directly without separate labels, cycling through: Caution, Extreme Caution, Danger, or Extreme Danger.
Ultra Violet Exposure: Standardized UV indices measuring: None, Low, Medium, High, Very High, and Extreme.

Rain Diagnostics: Computes instantaneous live rain intensities, 24-hour running logs, monthly accumulators, and yearly totals.
Cloud Base Altitude: Live calculated cloud elevations tracking shifting overhead trends over runtime.
Cloud & Sky States: Real-time observation filters capturing: Shallow, Patches, Low Drifting, Blowing, Showers, Thunderstorm, Freezing, Partial, Drizzle, Rain, Snow, Snow Grains, Ice Crystals, Ice Pellets, Hail, Small Hail/Snow, Unknown Precipitation, Mist, Fog, Smoke, Dust, Sand, Haze, Spray, Volcnc Ash, Sand Swirls, Squalls, Funnel Cloud, Tornado, Sand Storm, Dust Storm.
Lunar Chronology: Tracks the 8 standard Moon phases: New Moon, Waxing Crescent, First Quarter, Waxing Gibbous, Full Moon, Waning Gibbous, Last Quarter, and Waning Crescent.

Data Rich Dashboard: Roughly 350 calculated variables handled simultaneously in the stations' profile.
Robust Weather History: Comprehensive data structure processing historical highs and lows across daily, monthly, and yearly tracks.
Long-Term Calculators: Background processing scripts tracking current day data sets versus full operational installation records to identify climatic anomalies.
Visual Visualizers: Features responsive graphs, precision telemetry gauges, NOAA weather outlook integrations, and radar loops.