Yellowbell Weather

Location

Ruislip, UK (51:33N, 0:23W), Update schedule: 24hrs a day, 5-minute intervals.

Hardware

The station is based on a Fine Offset WH-1080 weather station and various Dallas Semiconductors 1-wire sensors.

Software

Data from the each of these nodes is processed by embedded Raspberry Pi single-board computers. The Fine Offset station processing is done using pywws, while the 1-wire network is polled using w1retap, and processed using rrdtool. Graphical and tabular data is aggregated on an Amazon EC2 server and displayed using Apache Web Server.

The weather data is shared around the world, through membership of these international amateur weather networks: