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Page Last Updated: 2010 Aug 16
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Starlight Cascade in Eastern Ontario Canada near Yarker, about 25 minutes northwest of Kingston, Ontario in the Township of Stone Mills
44.22 North Latitude 76.45 West Longitude 155M Elevation
Weather Underground PWS IONTARIO51 Our weather underground station ID is IOntario51 and you can see our data by clicking on the weather icon to the left.
2010 Aug 16 - new temperature/humidity sensor installed and operational. 2010 Aug 10 - The outdoor temperature/pressure/humidity sensor/transmitter is broken until a replacement is found.

A new Weather Station for Christmas! What more could one ask for? An Oregon WMR968 weather station arrived on Christmas Day 2006 and was set up just a few hours later. It has wireless data capability so the base station has moved from the observatory and into the house. Remote units cover the greenhouse and the garage. Wooohoo!
We use FreeWX-wi v1.01 for software.


The Kit
WMR968 manual (1mb PDF)
The Receiver
This weather station does not detect lightning strikes, although we are looking into adding sensors for that.
You can find a lightning detection station here, based out of Fergus Ontario.
Kingston is over 400km away from the station and the web page says that it only works well out to 300km?

Data file

All data is in text CSV format. All data logged from the new (2006December) Oregon WMR968 station.
Year/MonthDaily ExtremesHourly Data
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Log

  • 2010 August - the sensor stopped transmitting three more times and finally died. The freewx software does not seem to send data up to the Weather Underground if there is no outside temperature either. So the station will be down and offline until we can purchase the replacement $85 part, an Oregon THGR-968 Cable Free Solar Powered Thermo-Hygro Sensor.
  • 2010 July - the thermo-hygrometer sensor was no longer being received by the receiver so we moved it from the observatory mount (about 40m and two house wall away), to a shady spot near the deck about 8m away and no house walls to contend with. The data started to flow again! The system consists of:
    The thermo-hygrometer sensor with a range of -58F to 158F and resolution of 0.2F. Humidity range is 2% to 96% RH with resolution of 1%. Updates oiccur every 37 seconds. Powered by a solar cell with akaline battery backup.
    The anemometers operating range is up to 125mph with resolution of +- 0.4mph. Data updates every 14 seconds. powered by a solar cell with akaline battery backup.
    The rain guage uses a self emptying collection unit. Range is up to 39" per hour with resolution of 0.04" transmission update every 47 seconds. solar cell and battery backup.
    the indoor baro-hygrometer meaders indoor temp and humidity. range is 23F to 122F with accuracy of 0.2F, humidity range s 2% to 96% RH with accuracy of 1%. pressure range from 23.48 in HG to 31.01 in Hg with accuracy of 0.03 in hg.
  • 20080606 - updated 2008 data files. Note that freewx-wi is showing signs of age. For each of the last 5 days it has frozen near midnight when the logs get rotated. So we are actively looking for a new software data logger and web/weather underground weather program.
  • 20071002 - moved wind sensor from observatory to clothlines pole that is more in the open and less sheltered, and a little higher, from 2 m to 3 m up. Also moved weather station receiver from basement farthest away from sensors to upstairs in the middle of the house, a little closer.
  • 20070515 - moved the temperature sensor a little more north into the shade of the observatory.
  • 20070427 - updated the website to include some new features from the weather underground and linked in other nearby weather stations.
  • 20070225 - started uploading data files to the web site.
  • 20061226 - installed FreeWx-Wi software and started uploading data to the weather underground.
  • WMR968 2006 December 25 - installed new Oregon wmr968 wireless weather station in and around the observatory. The white things are the three sensors (rain, wind, air) and their solar panels/transmitters. The white bucket is used to shield the temperature probe, along with the observatory walls, from direct sunlight. The nearer dome is the first allsky camera, still under development. The farther dome is the new CONCAM camera still under development.

    Other weather related links

    Weather Underground PWS IONTARIO202 Weather Underground PWS IONTARIO51 Weather Underground PWS IONADOLP2 Weather Underground PWS IPELOT432
    EnvCan Forecast Kingston, Ontario or Canada
    		Radar: Kingston Toronto Ontario Canada Hurricane Centre
  • Moon Phase SOHO Solar Image
  • Eastern Ontario Road Conditions - Google maps & Satellites

    Click Here for info on our old weather station

    For questions or comments about this page /weather/ contact us at kim or kevin (at) starlightcascade (dot) ca