Heights - Houston TX Area

Local Data

About This Weather Station

	Make and Model of Weather Station: Davis Vantage Pro 2.
	Date first online: February 2007
	Physical location of anemometer and sensors: 70 feet above ground on a small radio tower, clear of obstacles that would cause invalid data.
	Location of Station: W. 12th St and Seamist, 77008, in the Heights area and near Northwest Mall.
	Reporting Software: Software is custom by Air Liquide on a ARM9 RISC CPU.
	OS and PC info: Instead of a PC, it is using a ARM9 RISC CPU. This makes this site more dependable then using Windows and better for an industrial application. This box also takes about 1.5% of the power of a PC, the Moxa draws only 4.5 watts. Less heat and less power means less operating cost. A PC running 24 hours at 300 watts is about $35 per month added to your electric bill based on power depending on where you live. My nick name for this box is "MyWxBox".
	Note: "MyWxBox" is made by Moxa with special firmware pre-loaded and available from Ambient Weather.
	WebCam: Right now this site has a Panasonic IP based camera that does a really great job. But it does not come cheap either. This is a Digital to digital image, and not analog that uses a TV camera to create the digital image from. This is true DD format.