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Current Weather Conditions at the Reil Ranch
Garden Valley, Idaho
Time & Date of Last Data Upload: 30 Jul 2010 3:12 AM
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Garden Valley Zone Forecast
Boise Area Zone Forecast
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"A Spring Day" Streaming Time-Lapse W/Music
Manually Tabulated Data
Note: All data values below
are in "inches." Also, these values
are hand tabulated and entered on this page, so they will not be
updated in the same hourly cycle as the rest of the data. I
will update this data after each significant storm when time permits.
The
snowfall measurements are taken at the location of my weather station
on Anderson Creek Road, so they may not match snowfall depths in other
locations in Garden Valley, especially up the Middle Fork drainage.Snowfall at Weather Station Location
Storm total = 5/8"
Rain Equivalent= 0.15"
Snowfall total to date: 47"
Notes: Very wet snow.
Last update: 9:00 AM,
5 Apr 2010
Current Station Readings
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Temperature: |
55.0°F (-1.4) |
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Dew Point: |
51.8°F (-0.8) |
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Wind Chill: |
55.0°F (-1.4) |
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Wind Speed: |
0.0 MPH (0.0) |
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Wind Direction: |
ENE |
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Pressure: |
26.83 in Hg (0.0) |
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Rainfall Rate: |
0.00 in/h (0.00) |
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Current Conditions: |
Overcast |
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Time Of Sample (local): |
30 Jul 2010 3:12 AM |
Gages
Graphical History
Note:
These graphs may be displayed in either 24-hour or 7-day format. If I
lose a data set due to technical problems, I will switch back to a 24
hour format until I have at least one full day of data history logged.
This page is still a work in progress, as is the LWC weather program
that interfaces between this page and the weather station. The program
is still in "Alpha" and has not yet been publicaly released for "Beta"
testing, so it still has many bugs to be found and fixed. Periodically
the results of a bug shows up here.
Solar Radiation
Note:
Snow is an almost perfect UV reflector, so if any snow falls and
remains on the UV detector it will not register any UV radiation, while
in fact there may be intense radiation from the sky, as well as
reflected upward from the surface of the snow.
Therefore, if you look at the UV graph and do not see any indication of
UV radiation, we may still have a dangerous level of radiation present.
So please use
care even if the UV Index shows a zero reading.
UV Statistics
Current UV (change in the last hour): 0.00 (0.00)
Highest UV Today: 0.00 at 3:01 AM
Average UV Today: 0.00
Average UV This Week: 1.91
Average UV This Month: 2.39
Theoritical Cloud Base Elevation
The
following graph of "Cloud Base" elevation is the result of a totally
theoritical calculation involving the air temperature at ground level,
current relative humidity, and the theoritical "adiabatic lapse rate."
It assumes uniformly changing
conditions in the vertical air column, which of course is most often
not the case, especially in mountainous regions. The graph will still show a theoritical
cloud base even when there are no clouds in the sky. The
calculated cloud base height is simply the theoritical height, above the
weather station, where the air temperature will have decreased
enough
(adiabatic lapse rate) to reach the dew point. For those living in
Garden Valley, if you look at Charter or
Garden Mountain, both about 7000' in elevation, and see clouds touching
their
tops, and then look at the graph below, and it indicates the cloud base
is close to 7000', then you know the atmospheric conditions are
relatively uniform, and match the theoritical rates of change as you
move up the air column. I
include this graph only for your interest.
Sunrise & Sunset Times
Sunrise Today: 6:29 AM Sunset Today: 9:10 PM
Hours of Sunlight Today: 14:41
Sunrise Tomorrow: 6:30 AM Sunset Tomorrow: 9:09 PM
Hours of Sunlight Tomorrow: 14:39
Current Boise Weather Radar
Note: Garden Valley is in the NW corner of Boise County, about 3/4" above the "e" in the word Boise.
Current Web Cam Image
(Note
that there is a Web cam time-lapse video link below this image.)
This is a Web cam image of our horse & donkey barn, shot through my
blacksmith/decorative metalworking shop's NE corner window. Most of the
time there isn't a
lot to see unless we have a snowstorm or thunderstorm in progress.
Things are usually
pretty laid back here on the ranch. The picture is taken looking NNW up
the valley of the Middle Fork of the Payette River. If it is Winter you
may be able to see little more than piled up snow, with the peak of the
barn
sticking out above. The snow berm can
reach 16 feet, the limit of my tractor's bucket reach.
Time-Lapse Webcam Movies and stills
You
can save the videos listed below to disk and view them with your own
viewer or watch them directly in your browser. Downloading them to disk
first
will allow you to drag the corner of your viewer window out to enlarge
it if you wish. The videos are between 3.0 and 12 megs in size,
so expect a short download time depending on your connection speed. The
video viewing time may be as short as 12 seconds for an hour long
time-lapse sequence, to as long as 2 minutes for a full day time-lapse
sequence. I have discontinued the hourly time-lapse videos and am now
selecting worthwhile still image sequences to create my time-lapse
videos from. I adjust the Gamma, compress the video,
and even add music to some if they are good enough. I think these
videos are much more worthwhile than the often boring hourly time-lapse
segments.Selected Weather Related Time-Lapse Movies
(From my webcam, length varies)
Our First Brief Snow 10/27/2009
A Short Intense Hail Storm 3/30/2010
Unstable Spring Weather - A full Day (streaming)
"A Spring Day" w/music (streaming)
"Sage Winds" Weather Spotter Newsletters (pdf)
These newsletters include lots of
useful weather and climate information for the average person as well
as
the trained weather spotter.Volume 3-2
Volume 3-3
Volume 3-4
Volume 3-5
Global Warming, Fact or Fiction
Yes, "Global Warming/Climate Change"
is real, and it is already
making profound, and possibly catastrophic, changes to our environment
and planet. That is not disputed. The big question is the cause,
man or nature? Here is a download link to a 1 hour and 44 minute video recording of the May 6, 2010 Senate
hearings on the causes of Global Warming and data validity. This is a
big video file, 536 Mb, but this hearing includes both
"sides" of the debate. You be the judge. It is a
must-see for everyone who has a vested interest in climate change, and
that includes everyone. Download the file to
your hard disk and then view it on your Quicktime video viewer in full screen. The video quality is good enough to
view it full screen. If you do not have Quicktime, it is a free download for Mac or Windows.
This
link is to a small 2 minute 15 second video that explains what Global
Warming is, and its relationship to CO2. This
dramatic and spectacular "Extreme Ice Survey" time-lapse video was
produced by James Balog. If you have a family and children you have a
vested interest in the future. You owe it to them to educate yourself
about Global Warming/Climate Change. This video requires no background
in
science for it to be stunningly clear that Global Warming is real, and
that it is reaching critical momentum. This somewhat technical Web site provides
excellent and easily understood
information about Global Warming/Climate Change. This is not an issue
to take sides on. There are no sides to this issue, there are only the
facts. You can have those facts explained to you in clear easy to
understand terminology in the excellent tutorials on this site. This
site is for those who wish to fully understand the processes involved
in Global Warming.Central Coast
Climate Science Page
The Smoking Gun?
Perhaps not, but of all the climate change data I have studied in my 20+ years of
carefully following Global
Warming research, perhaps the following simplistic graph is the most
easily understood and impactful. The perfectly in-sync CO2,
sea level, and global temperature curves, do demonstrate
Global Warming is real. This graph goes back 400,000 years, but data, although of less certainty, is
available that continues this graphical relationship more than
1,000,000 years. Notice where the CO2 level is
today at the extreme upper right corner of the graph. You do not see
the sea level
and global temperature jumping up in sync on the graph, simply because
the CO2 rise occurs in so short a time period that the impact of the
CO2 change has not yet had time to show up in the temperature and sea
level measurements at the
scale of this graph.
I hope you will take the time to explore the above and below linked resources.
Thank you.
Perhaps not, but of all the climate change data I have studied in my 20+ years of
carefully following Global
Warming research, perhaps the following simplistic graph is the most
easily understood and impactful. The perfectly in-sync CO2,
sea level, and global temperature curves, do demonstrate
Global Warming is real. This graph goes back 400,000 years, but data, although of less certainty, is
available that continues this graphical relationship more than
1,000,000 years. Notice where the CO2 level is
today at the extreme upper right corner of the graph. You do not see
the sea level
and global temperature jumping up in sync on the graph, simply because
the CO2 rise occurs in so short a time period that the impact of the
CO2 change has not yet had time to show up in the temperature and sea
level measurements at the
scale of this graph.
I hope you will take the time to explore the above and below linked resources.
Thank you.A Few Words About
Information/Disinformation Sources
There is an old saying, to determine the credibility of
your information source, follow the money trail. Unfortunately, that is
as true in science today as everywhere else. "Pure scientists," those
who work primarily for the love of the research (pure science), and
have no agendas to
push, are mostly found doing research in various
academic institutions or NASA. Compare those with "scientists" who are
on
the
payrolls of large corporations, public utilities, political
organizations, or other
organizations with a self interest or agenda to push.
Think back to the
"scientists" who worked for the tobacco companies, and their
"scientific"
data and opinions, all bought and paid for, and all outright lies. So
it is prudent to learn
where the money is
coming from to support a particular organization, scientist, or expert,
and often that information is carefully covered up. The fossil fuels
corporations
and some electric utilities have
launched a huge misinformation campaign to discredit Global Warming in
an attempt to prevent costly CO2 capture technology installation
requirements from being enacted into law,
and there are many so called authorities, agents of the oil or power
companies,
out there now presenting false information and outright lies to the
public, as well as to the employees of the companies themselves. To
follow the money trail behind many of these climate disinformation
"experts,"
visit the following...
This link will take you to the "Climateprogress.org"
page where you can watch an excellent video discussion by two top level
scientists, Christopher Field and Michael MacCracken, regarding the
possible range of impacts of Global Warming,
the role of the IPCC, and how to maintain the credability of the IPCC
in the face of well funded and organized attacks by the oil and power
industry's disinformation campaign.
There is an old saying, to determine the credibility of
your information source, follow the money trail. Unfortunately, that is
as true in science today as everywhere else. "Pure scientists," those
who work primarily for the love of the research (pure science), and
have no agendas to
push, are mostly found doing research in various
academic institutions or NASA. Compare those with "scientists" who are
on
the
payrolls of large corporations, public utilities, political
organizations, or other
organizations with a self interest or agenda to push.
Think back to the
"scientists" who worked for the tobacco companies, and their
"scientific"
data and opinions, all bought and paid for, and all outright lies. So
it is prudent to learn
where the money is
coming from to support a particular organization, scientist, or expert,
and often that information is carefully covered up. The fossil fuels
corporations
and some electric utilities have
launched a huge misinformation campaign to discredit Global Warming in
an attempt to prevent costly CO2 capture technology installation
requirements from being enacted into law,
and there are many so called authorities, agents of the oil or power
companies,
out there now presenting false information and outright lies to the
public, as well as to the employees of the companies themselves. To
follow the money trail behind many of these climate disinformation
"experts,"
visit the following...
This link will take you to the "Climateprogress.org"
page where you can watch an excellent video discussion by two top level
scientists, Christopher Field and Michael MacCracken, regarding the
possible range of impacts of Global Warming,
the role of the IPCC, and how to maintain the credability of the IPCC
in the face of well funded and organized attacks by the oil and power
industry's disinformation campaign.Links Relative to This Weather Page and Garden Valley
Note: Be sure to check the date and time for each map. The lightning maps are delayed data maps.
Garden Valley Zone Forecast
Wolf Tapeworm Dangers Fact Sheet
Weather Events Journal
Weather Station's Historical Records
Mountain Shadows Weather Station
Western GOES Satellite Image
Hazardous Weather Warnings
U.S. & PNW Current Lightning & Probability Maps
PNW 60 Minute Lightning Strike Map
Boise NWS Radar Loop Animation Page
Zone IDZ403 Fire Weather Forecast
Garden Valley Fire Protection District Home Page
Latest Idaho Earthquake Information & Map
Idaho Clickable Fault Information Map
My Web Site Map
Weather Station Location & Info
The
data source for this weather page is my "Vantage Pro2 Plus" weather
station, which is equipped with a fan aspirated temperature sensor,
additional solar sensors, and a rain gage snow melting heater for
winter. The weather station is located above my lower south pasture
where there is nothing to interfere with wind or precipitation
measurements. Our location in the Central Idaho mountains has
coordinates of 44 degrees 6.703" N, 115 degrees 57.556" W, and an
elevation of
3,051'. This is a deep snow area, so I will also be including storm
snowfall totals, and total snowfall to date, snow measurements.Page by: Ron Reil
Email Contact: ron_reil (at) frontiernet (dot) net
5 Apr 2010
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