{"id":2115,"date":"2013-06-02T16:02:09","date_gmt":"2013-06-02T21:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/?p=2115"},"modified":"2013-06-02T16:02:09","modified_gmt":"2013-06-02T21:02:09","slug":"farewell-weather-stations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2013\/06\/farewell-weather-stations.html","title":{"rendered":"Farewell KFLGULFB11 and KFLNAVAR18!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2116\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/DSC_2755.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2116\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2116\" alt=\"Technically, Dave is assembling our AcuRite sensor set here, but you can just pretend the drill is unscrewing rather than screwing.  Ha ha.\" src=\"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/DSC_2755-1024x678.jpg\" width=\"630\" height=\"417\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/DSC_2755-1024x678.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/DSC_2755-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2116\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Technically, Dave is assembling our AcuRite sensor set here, but you can just pretend the drill is unscrewing rather than screwing. Ha ha.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This afternoon Dave disassembled our two weather stations in the backyard. One of them (KFLGULFB11) had been reliably reporting backyard weather since December 2010, the other (KFLNAVAR18) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B004KRUY28\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B004KRUY28&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=grocontomajmo-20\">was a test weather station whose review post is coming up soon on GeekMom<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Our Davis Instruments weather station sensor set is beginning to get rather tired. I predict we&#8217;ll be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00481XNKG\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B00481XNKG&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=grocontomajmo-20\">getting a new one<\/a> by the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>You can view the archives for these two weather stations through our Weather Underground pages:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wunderground.com\/weatherstation\/WXDailyHistory.asp?ID=KFLGULFB11\"><span style=\"line-height: 14px;\">KFLGULFB11<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wunderground.com\/weatherstation\/WXDailyHistory.asp?ID=KFLNAVAR18&amp;day=2&amp;year=2013&amp;month=6&amp;graphspan=day\">KFLNAVAR18<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We will retire these two names and will be resuscitating the weather stations in July in Colorado!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sorry we didn&#8217;t have more fanfare or photography with this, but it&#8217;s really busy around here, the packers will be here TOMORROW!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This afternoon Dave disassembled our two weather stations in the backyard. One of them (KFLGULFB11) had been reliably reporting backyard weather since December 2010, the other (KFLNAVAR18) was a test weather station whose review post is coming up soon on GeekMom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[49,50,618],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5ycQ0-y7","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2026,"url":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2013\/04\/this-is-a-weather-station-comparison-test.html","url_meta":{"origin":2115,"position":0},"title":"A Weather Station Comparison Test","date":"22 April 13","format":false,"excerpt":"The purpose of this blog post is to have a place to quickly compare the two weather stations I have in my backyard. The top \"sticker\" is for our Davis Instruments Vantage Pro 2, circa 2004. This weather station has performed reliably for our family at each of our last\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"geek\"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1370,"url":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2012\/08\/issac-preparation.html","url_meta":{"origin":2115,"position":1},"title":"Issac Preparation","date":"26 August 12","format":false,"excerpt":"Yes, we are preparing for Issac. \u00a0We've been through this routine before -- in 2004 with numerous storms, and we've already had a couple near misses here. 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You can see current conditions on the right-hand column of the blog now, or you\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"computer\"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":481,"url":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2010\/11\/goodbye-knebelle12.html","url_meta":{"origin":2115,"position":3},"title":"Goodbye KNEBELLE12!","date":"14 November 10","format":false,"excerpt":"Whether you knew of it as the APRS station DW3809 or as Wunderground Station KNEBELLE12, this afternoon we disassembled the weather station and will set it up in a couple weeks in Navarre, FL. \u00a0I'm in the process of deleting our Wunderground tags from this blog and our Vollmer Family\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"military life\"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_yz59FVsseJY\/TOBQua_SqkI\/AAAAAAABNmM\/prQrtA4lLQw\/s320\/WxStation.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":459,"url":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2010\/08\/the-vollmer-weather-curse-take-6.html","url_meta":{"origin":2115,"position":4},"title":"The Vollmer &quot;Weather Curse&quot;, Take 6","date":"28 August 10","format":false,"excerpt":"Most of this text is stolen from a 21 November 2008 blog post about the crazy weather experiences we've had everywhere we've lived since we've been married. At the end of that blog post, I posed the question: \"What will Bellevue, Nebraska bring?\" Now that we're wrapping up our Nebraska\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"cold weather\"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/6\/63\/Ice_Storm_98_trees_line_Noaa6198.jpg","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1269,"url":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2012\/08\/summer-crafting.html","url_meta":{"origin":2115,"position":5},"title":"Summer Crafting","date":"02 August 12","format":false,"excerpt":"The weather continues to get the best of us this week. \u00a0We were still able to hit the Pensacola MESS Hall again on Wednesday, and today I had some meetings on base while the kids stayed home and our neighbor's son watched them. \u00a0With thunderstorms all around us this afternoon\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"cosplay\"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/TimmyAsDash.jpeg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2115"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2117,"href":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2115\/revisions\/2117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}