Site Information for 99208 in Environm Buoy 44028, MA, United States of America (site inactive)

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Registered Location

Latitude: 41° 24' 0" N (deg min sec), 41.4000° (decimal), 4124.00N (LORAN)
Longitude: 71° 6' 0" W (deg min sec), -71.1000° (decimal), 07106.00W (LORAN)
Elevation: 1 metres (3 feet) -- validated against 0 metres (0 feet) from Geonames
Location: Environm Buoy 44028, MA, United States of America

If the displayed location (or elevation) of the weather observing location is incorrect, please drag the marker to the right location (or click in the right location), and then send the updated information. Please note that we are trying to spot either the Stevenson Screen (or equivalent) or the location where the barometric readings are taken.

The location information for this site was gathered from 2 data sources. The source which most closely matches the consensus is chosen. Many of these sources only report the location to the nearest minute (or hundredth of degree). This can lead to the marker being placed noticeably incorrectly. Please see Discussion of Location Errors for more information. Show location history.

Date	Latitude	Longitude	Elevation	Name
2010-03-19	41.4000	-71.1000	1	Environm Buoy 44028, United States of America
2010-08-29	41.4000	-71.1000	1	Environm Buoy 44028, MA, United States, United States of America
2010-09-01	41.4000	-71.1000	1	Environm Buoy 44028, MA, United States of America

Source	Latitude	Longitude	Elevation	Place	Miles	Map
Master Location Identifier DB	41.4000	-71.1000	1	Environm Buoy 44028, MA, United States of America [99208]	0.0	Center
ISH	41.4000	-71.0800	12	Buzzard's Bay, United States Of America [99208]	1.0	Center	Include

The position of the clicked point on the map is:

The position of the '99208' marker on the map is:

Latitude: dummy (deg min sec), dummy (decimal), dummy (LORAN)
Longitude: dummy (deg min sec), dummy (decimal), dummy (LORAN)

There are no photographs of the station. If you have pictures of this location, then please email them to 99208@photo.gladstonefamily.net.

Picture Submission

There are two ways to submit pictures. If you are a flickr user, then see the flickr section below. Otherwise you can simply email the pictures as follows:

Email the pictures to 99208@photo.gladstonefamily.net.
If you use a smartphone that embeds the GPS coordinates in the pictures, then you can send any picture of a weather station to gps@photo.gladstonefamily.net and it will be associated with the correct station automatically.

Flickr Upload

Uploading picktures to flickr.com is easy. If you do not have a free flickr account, then you need to create one. Just go to flickr and click the 'Create your account' button. You can use a google account if you have one.

Once logged in, click on 'Upload Photos & Video'. Next click on 'Choose Photos and Videos', and walk through the process to upload your pictures. They will automatically be resized appropriately.

After the upload is complete, it will ask you to add titles, tags and descriptions. The key step is to add tags as follows:

wxtagged -- this indicates that this picture is of a weather station or surrounding area
wx:wmo=99208 -- this indicates the site of which this is a picture
wxstation -- add this tag if the picture includes the weather station.

If you had to create your account, then you must upload at least five pictures. It will also take longer for your pictures to appear (a week or so). Otherwise, the pictures should appear after 24-48 hours.

You can try to find photographs from the area surrounding the site marker by clicking on Find nearby photographs. (There are some) (There are none) (There may be some) (Automatically loaded if any)

Neighboring Stations

This is a list of stations that are close to this station.

You can also subscribe to an RSS feed to tell you when new stations come online in this area. Choose either within 100 miles or 250 miles .

Site	Distance		Location
DW0457	8.4 miles	Northwest	LITTLE COMPTON, RI, US (lat 41.5086°, long -71.1736°, altitude 28 metres) (data present)
W2CS	12.3 miles	North	Westport, MA, US (lat 41.5760°, long -71.0620°, altitude 21 metres) (data present)
CW6451	13.8 miles	Northwest	Middletown, RI, US (lat 41.5305°, long -71.3003°, altitude 23 metres) (data present)
EW9629	17.3 miles	North	Dartmouth, MA, US (lat 41.6358°, long -70.9878°, altitude 17 metres) (data present)
EW8410	17.5 miles	Northwest	Jamestown, RI, US (lat 41.5472°, long -71.3747°, altitude 18 metres) (data present)
DW4678	19.0 miles	Northeast	Fairhaven, MA, US (lat 41.5850°, long -70.8293°, altitude 2 metres) (data present)
DW4230	19.6 miles	Northeast	West Island, MA, US (lat 41.5973°, long -70.8297°, altitude 3 metres) (data present)
EW0364	20.6 miles	Northeast	Fairhaven, MA, US (lat 41.6572°, long -70.9008°, altitude 9 metres) (data present)
N1QWW	20.9 miles	Northeast	New Bedford, MA, US (lat 41.6755°, long -70.9340°, altitude 30 metres) (data present)
FW2970	23.7 miles	East	Woods Hole, MA, US (lat 41.5267°, long -70.6758°, altitude -2 metres) (data present)

Location Formats

The location is shown in three different formats. Each of these is used in some software, and is shown on some websites.

Degrees Minutes Seconds: VWS/VWSAPRS, WeatherLink 5.5, WeatherLink (5.2-5.4), WeatherView (Linux)

Decimal degrees: FreeWX, WeatherView32 (PC application)

LORAN: WeatherDisplay, WUHU, Henriksen WServer

Resources

CWOP Home: This describes the whole CWOP program and has a large amount of useful information.

CWOP Siting Guide (PDF): This is a guide to siting and operating a CWOP station. This is a must-read document.

Another CWOP Guide (PDF): This is another guide to siting and operating a CWOP station. This is a must-read document.

Urban Siting and Operations (PDF): This is a guide to siting and operating a CWOP station in an urban environment.

APRS WX Message format: This describes the actual format of the messages transmitted that carry WX information.

WXQC Mailing List: This is a mailing list where data quality issues are discussed. Assistance with software configuration can often be found here.

Topo Map Reading Guide: How to read USGS topographic maps, with a good section on reading contours.

Geographically nearby web pages: Use Geourl to find web pages that deal with locations geographically close to this site.

Overall website comments, problems etc to Philip Gladstone
Page layout last modified Sunday, 28 February 2016
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