{"id":2296,"date":"2013-07-04T22:58:02","date_gmt":"2013-07-05T03:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/?p=2296"},"modified":"2013-07-04T22:58:02","modified_gmt":"2013-07-05T03:58:02","slug":"the-weather-station-is-mostly-up-and-running","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2013\/07\/the-weather-station-is-mostly-up-and-running.html","title":{"rendered":"The Weather Station is MOSTLY Up and Running!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight I had set up our PC desktop computer on our new Ikea desk.<\/p>\n<p>I turned on the Davis Vantage Pro 2 console, and I didn&#8217;t realize that our weather station is already transmitting from inside a deck box where it&#8217;s awaiting a more formal installation.<\/p>\n<p>So for now, trust the temperature, dew point and barometric pressure. I&#8217;ll let you know when we get the anemometer and rain gauge assembled. I&#8217;m awaiting the formal movement approval for our <a href=\"http:\/\/madis.noaa.gov\/\">MADIS<\/a>\u00a0community reporting also.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"290\" height=\"130\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.wunderground.com\/swf\/pws_mini_rf_nc.swf?station=KCOCOLOR196&amp;freq=2.5&amp;units=english&amp;lang=EN\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight I had set up our PC desktop computer on our new Ikea desk. I turned on the Davis Vantage Pro 2 console, and I didn&#8217;t realize that our weather station is already transmitting from inside a deck box where it&#8217;s awaiting a more formal installation. So for now, trust the temperature, dew point and [&hellip;]<\/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-B2","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2026,"url":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2013\/04\/this-is-a-weather-station-comparison-test.html","url_meta":{"origin":2296,"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. 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