about us

Our WAP site is available at www.upminsterweather.co.uk/wap

This is a non commercial site maintained for Public Information. The adds on the front page have been put on for free as an appreciation for the help and service I have received from them over the years.


Pages are best viewed using Internet Explorer 6 with Java enabled. A screen resolution of 1024 x 768 or above with 32 bit colour depth is recommended. If you have no Java on your computer then you can download it for free from Sun Microsystems Java Download.


To see some of the site content your computer needs to be Flash enabled. If you do not have flash installed then you can download this for free from Macromedia Flash Download.


Again for some of the features on this site your computer needs to display " I" Frames. You will need to check your security settings to ensure it is not set up to stop "I" Frames.

For a list of the weather terms and what they mean please click here.
 

COMPUTER & STATION SPECIFICATIONS

The Weather station is owned by: Alan Paul
Forecast written by: Alan Paul
Site designed and maintained by: James Paul
Site hosted by: www.webfusion.co.uk

Weather software:
Main Program : Weather Display written by Brian Hamilton who lives in New Zealand.
Weather Display Live written by Julian Best who is located at Colchester. (there is a link to his weather site on my "links" page)


Live Lightning:- Hardware manufactured by Boltek USA
Software written by Relko of Astrogenic, this firm is located in Sweden.


My thanks go out to Brian, Julian and Relko for all the excellent support they have given me (not forgetting my son James) in setting up the software and getting the information on to my Web site. Their quick email responses were really appreciated and made all the difference.
Upgrade of weather station hardware.


The weather equipment has now been upgraded to a "Davis Vantage Pro" with a fan aspirated radiation shield. The new equipment incorporates two additional sensors for :- Solar radiation and UV radiation.
Information from the Davis instruments will give a higher degree of accuracy than those from the previous equipment.


Computer Hardware
Processor: AMD Phenom II x6 1100T @ 3.3GHZ
RAM: 8GB DDR3
HDD: 2 Xx 160GB 10000RPM
Motherboard: ASUS M4A88TD-V EVO/USB3
Graphics: ATI RADEON HD 4250