Auckland Lightning detector

Dean. · Unread post by **Dean.** » Mon 18/10/2004 23:28

The satellite of Queensland makes for interesting viewing,
Nothing happening here yet,very humid outside,temp 24.3 degrees.
Enjoying the tropical climate sofar.
Cyclone season starts Nov 1st

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Cheers.

jeffsweather · Unread post by **jeffsweather** » Tue 19/10/2004 11:56

Steven Graham wrote:I'm now combining Ricky's StormVue data with my own and uploading this every five minutes.

You can see the result at http://www.templeton.gen.nz/weather/NZStormVue.html

The map covers 1000km from the centre - ignore the range circles ! Nexstorm truncates the data for StormVue at about 600km which is shown by the shaded area.

It's easy to include other stormtrackers e.g. Dunedin

Anyone else noticed that your PC clock looses about 3 min/hour leaving this open in a browser, in this case firefox running in windows 2000.

I noticed this at work yesterday. It doesn't seem to affect the clock on Linux and Mozilla at home.
Perhaps I shouldn't be looking out for lightning strikes at work...

Skywatcher · Unread post by **Skywatcher** » Tue 19/10/2004 12:42

I noticed a difference between the clocks on my PCs at the weekend but thought it might due to the Nexstorm software slowing the weather PC down.

Just ran a test with the Java applet running in IE6 and this PC gained about 45 seconds in half an hour instead of the normal 2 seconds a day.

It's using the Sun Java runtime and I've seen comments that it doesn't work as well as the MS runtime which has been withdrawn as part of the legal settlement between the companies

I use Automachron to sync the PCs with a public NTP server at Otago Uni and I don't usually leave the applet running so it hasn't been a problem for me.

Manukau heads obs · Tue 19/10/2004 12:48

is the java programing doing alot of get time from the PC clock time?
some PC's slow down when a lot of gettime statements are issues, and some speed up
there are ways to sync your pc with world time servers

Skywatcher · Unread post by **Skywatcher** » Tue 19/10/2004 13:37

It's not my code but I'd guess there's a one second timer for the Reload countdown so perhaps that's implemented in the Sun JVM using gettime

I found a link on the Nexstorm forum to a site with the MS JVM. After installing and switching to MS, it still gains time but less than a second in half an hour which isn't so bad.

If anyone's interested it's at: http://home.wanadoo.nl/jheroen/VM/

Manukau heads obs · Tue 19/10/2004 20:03

http://www.gorgecreekorchards.com.au/StormVue.html

wow, up to 255 strikes per minute!

Skywatcher · Unread post by **Skywatcher** » Tue 19/10/2004 20:08

I got up to 6 per minute tonight

Strikes accumulated today is over 28000 and it's only 5pm there

Dean. · Unread post by **Dean.** » Tue 19/10/2004 20:15

Sky is looking incredibly black to the south of the city,camera is on standby.

Manukau heads obs · Sun 07/11/2004 11:12

http://www.jbest.net/weather/flash/index2.html
check that out

and click on the lightning button, bottom right hand corner
that data is updating as it happens (that person runs his own server)
all avaialble with weather display live, weather display, and nexstorm

(Julian is the author of WDL)
so Ricky will be able to have this working in a few days!

Gary Roberts · Unread post by **Gary Roberts** » Sun 07/11/2004 17:09

Anybody know if there's any non-windows/Linux software/drivers available for the Boltek StormTracker? If so I'll order one this week and mount it on the summit trig.

jeffsweather · Unread post by **jeffsweather** » Sun 07/11/2004 18:20

Gary Roberts wrote:Anybody know if there's any non-windows/Linux software/drivers available for the Boltek StormTracker? If so I'll order one this week and mount it on the summit trig.

Gary, the link that Brian posted works on my PC, Mandrake 10 with Mozilla 1.6. I have flash and java inatalled and that page displays perfectly. Takes a while to load even with a 256K connection

Gary Roberts · Unread post by **Gary Roberts** » Sun 07/11/2004 18:54

jeffsweather wrote:Gary, the link that Brian posted works on my PC, Mandrake 10 with Mozilla 1.6. I have flash and java inatalled and that page displays perfectly. Takes a while to load even with a 256K connection

Okay, so if I install a StormTracker PCI card into one of our (Debian) Linux-based weather stations, there are Linux drivers to support it?

I'd love to get one of these up-and-running on Benmore Peak.

Manukau heads obs · Sun 07/11/2004 19:20

i dont know of any linux software..
i do know that the serial version of the boltek has a serial output/input that could be written in a linux program...if the commands, etc, were known...i did find some reference to them on a site somewhere

the 2nd time you view that flash page, its faster to load (as it will be cached (unless the version has been updated)
the good thing about this flash presentation is its updating just about to the second a strike occurs (if running on a server), but even if not, it will be only a dealy of say 5 seconds for the ftp to get the files to the server

Manukau heads obs · Sun 07/11/2004 19:43

maybe gary you could put windows 2000 on a pc, and then ftp to the linux box or similar?
i know you dont like windows, but windows 2000 is the best of the bill gates incarnations (they didnt realise it at the time (its realy NT 5)

Thunder · Unread post by **Thunder** » Sun 07/11/2004 19:52

I'm not too sure on these things...

None the less!!! Hello Gary!!

Manukau heads obs · Mon 08/11/2004 13:06

http://www.blitz-radar.de/storm_driver_V1_1_tar.gz
have a look at that gary

Manukau heads obs · Thu 11/11/2004 21:07

http://www.portunus.net.nz/weather/live.html
check it out guys, and click on the ligthning button
strikes being updated as fast as ricky knows they occured in nexstorm at times!
(note , currently showing strikes from over the horizon, out in the tasman (tale tale is they are in a line)

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