New Web Address!

January 15th, 2024 Posted in Site News
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www.didsburywx.ca

Well, I finally gave my personal weather site it’s own Internet address. For years the weather stuff was part of my side business BlueVistaVentures.ca. I had helped a few people build and configure personal weather stations and websites. Now that I’ve retired the business, it is time to clean up 16 years of linkage and systems.

What is with the address name? Well, the first bit is obvious, the town the weather station is in. Didsbury, Alberta, Canada. The WX is morse code shorthand for the word weather. So it is commonly used as the abbreviation for the word weather. So the address is translate to: DidsburyWeather.Canada
Not to be confused with the township of Didsbury, UK, which is now a suburban area of Manchester, England. Which Didsbury, Alberta is named after.

Please update your bookmarks to the new address. The existing weather.bluevistaventures.ca will continue for another year or so.

Happy weather watching! Cheers, Jeff

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Coldest air temperature recorded at this location

January 14th, 2024 Posted in Weather News
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On January 13 and 14, 2024 my weather station located in Didsbury, Alberta within the Rosebud Creek valley, Valarosa Crossing neighbourhood, recorded the lowest air temperatures of -40° Celsius. This has been the lowest ever recorded by my weather station since installation back in August 2012. Previous record was -39° Celsius back on February 7, 2021.


The weather station has struggled to transmit data during these extreme cold hours in darkness. The backup lithium batteries, that keep the system running when the solar panels cannot power it, are only a year and half old, but maybe the solar panel batteries have lost some of their power and therefore cause the backup batteries to be used more. New batteries will be installed soon.

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Anemometer offline – battery issues in the cold

January 12th, 2024 Posted in Site News
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The anemometer lithium backup battery doesn’t have enough power to send the data in this -37°C weather we are having. Stopped sending data at 4am. Although, it did find a bit of juice to send again at 5:30am. I had replaced the battery in June 2022, which should still be good. Replacement is now on the todo list this summer, when I can climb up onto the roof.

Once the sun gets up, power will be restored and wind speed and directions should start reporting again.

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