Wawaweather.net is provided courtesy of Matthew Romer and Anderson Fisheries
as a one stop weather watching site for Wawa and surrounding area.

About This Station

Weather Station

Davis Vantage Pro 2 with solar & UV sensors (wireless version)
Serial data logger
RS-232 Optical Isolator (9POP4), 12V power supplied from computer

Webcam

X-View KPC-650 Color Nite Cam DSP
3.5-8mm CS Auto Iris Lens f 1.4
VT-1 Single Cable Video Transmitter

Lightning Detection

Boltek StormTracker Lightning Detector
NexStorm Software

Computer

Dell Pentium 4, 2.6GHz, 512MB RAM, Raid 5 HD configuration
Windows 2003 server, service pack 1 OS
Firewire addon card (for video capture)
Dazzle Hollywood DV Bridge

Weather data is provided by a Davis Vantage Pro2 weather station with supplementary information obtained from Environment Canada, The Weather Network, Fisheries & Oceans Canada, The Ontario Ministry of Transportation and the local airport.

The data is collected every 2.5 seconds and the site is updated approximately every 15 seconds using Weather Display Software. The station comprises of an anemometer, solar gauge, uv gauge, rain gauge and a thermo-hydro sensor situated in optimal positions for highest accuracy possible.

About Wawa

Wawa, Ontario is a community in Northern Ontario, Canada, located in Michipicoten Township in the Algoma District. The community is known for its 28-foot-tall metal statue of a Canada goose, built in 1963. Wawa takes its name from the Ojibwe word for "wild goose", wewe.

Wawa's main source of employment and survival over the years has ranged from fur trade, mining and forestry to tourism.

About This Website

This site is a template design by CarterLake.org with PHP conversion by Saratoga-Weather.org.

Special thanks go to:

Kevin Reed at TNET Weather for his work on the original Carterlake templates, and for the common website PHP management design.
Mike Challis of Long Beach WA for his wind-rose generator, Theme Switcher and CSS styling help with these templates.
Ken True of Saratoga-Weather.org for the AJAX conditions display, dashboard and integration of the TNET Weather common PHP site design for this site.
Matthew Romer of Wawaweather.net for the Environment Canada icon version of WXSIM forecasts, AQI addon for ajax-dashboard and the Ontario Fire Ratings in Google Map format.

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Random Weather Facts

HAIL
Precipitation in the form of lumps of ice, mainly associated with thunderstorms is known as hail. The size of hail ranges from a small pea to the size of cherries, but has been observed as large as oranges. Hail in Canada occurs most frequently during the summer when thunderstorm activity is at a peak. Extensive damage in the agricultural industry is caused each year by hailstorms.