Happy Thanksgiving to all of our site visitors. My family and I wish you a safe and joyful holiday. Be safe out there today.
November 26, 2009
November 6, 2009
Station/Site Maintenance/Winter Prep
Pretty Day here in western Virginia. Most likely the last time we will have warm enough weather to be able to disassemble the rain gauge. My paint job on my rain gauge mod did not fair well due to the sun’s ultraviolet rays over the summer. So I took it down this morning, sanded and cleaned up the outside surface of the funnel real good. I am currently waiting for the adhesive on it to dry, so that I can reapply some plastic compatible paint to it. Hopefully the paint will dry enough that I can get it back on the stand before dark comes this evening.
I also took the time to clean off the Solar panels, evict spiders and their egg sacs. The battery on the inside temp/baro/hygro was also showing low, so replaced that.
www.mountcrawfordweather.org will soon be ready for the hard task of reporting this years winter conditions. Please note, that the site may be down a few times today, as I still have some maintenance things to do.