Personal weather station notebooks
Reproducible guides to Weather Display data parsing, PHP site architecture, unit conversion, climate reports, weather indexes and source documentation.
- Reading an NWS Hurricane Statement as a Decision DocumentHow to read an NWS hurricane statement as a decision document: headline, hazard wording, time validity, and Katrina 28 Aug 2005 as a cited case.
- Encoding Wind Direction from Degrees to Compass LabelsEncode 0-360 degree wind into compass labels: rounding, calm versus northerly wrap-around, and mph, knot, and m/s unit conversions as metrology.
- Publishing Weather Facts as a Small Knowledge BaseHow a personal weather site can publish sourced weather facts: update discipline, rotation versus editorial selection, and avoiding unsourced folklore.
- Reading Weather Display ClientRaw FilesTutorial on Weather Display ClientRaw packets: record structure, delimiters, conceptual parse steps, and field-count plus timestamp freshness checks.
- Parsing WD NOAA-Format Daily Reports into TablesParse Weather Display NOAA-style daily HTML into tables: what the form contains, provenance versus NCEI, and CSS restyling versus changing numbers.
- Weather Display ClientRaw Family FilesReference for four Weather Display ClientRaw files: time grain, field groups, versioned maps, and encoding principles. Credit WD; not a full field dump.
- Common PHP Site Design for Personal Weather StationsWhy personal weather websites shared one include-based PHP architecture: a single change to chrome, units, or navigation updates every observation page.
- The Include Stack as a Weather-Site Data FlowHow a six-include PHP stack carries station ID, timezone, units, and paths through every page, because those settings change the meaning of every number.
- Content Versus Chrome: The Blank Inner PageWhy a weather observation article should inherit headers, menus, unit labels, and footer credits instead of hard-coding chrome on every page.
- Weather Notebooks as Reproducible Mini-MethodsWeather notebooks were reproducible mini-methods (parse, convert, calculate, include) published so other operators could verify work that opaque dashboards hid.
- Building a Scientific Bibliography for a Personal Weather SiteBuild a scientific bibliography for a personal weather site: primary sources versus blogs, outbound-link labels, and keeping a resource notebook from rotting.
- Dew Point, Heat Index, and Wind Chill on Weather SitesDew point, heat index, and wind chill on weather sites: required inputs, NWS definitions, validity limits, and why an index is not a thermometer reading.