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Vantage Vue Helps Forecast Avalanche Danger in Himalayas

When Brian Newman was hired to work as an avalanche forecasting consultant for the state government of Kashmir in the Pir Pinjal range of the Himalayas, he knew he needed a very accurate and reliable weather station. But that weather station also ...

May 23, 2011

Vantage Pro2 Dons Disguise, fools no one

As a fond farewell to winter and a "Hello, Spring!" Dr. Kostas Lagouvardos of the National Observatory of Athens Institute for Environmental Research sent us this photo of one of their Vantage Pro2s mounted at 2,240 meters (7,350 feet), on Parnassos ...

May 23, 2011

What to wear when maintaining an Ice-Bound weather station

Adam Skowronski, who always sends us the best photos of his weather station installations in Poland, sent us this one of an attempt to reach a station installed on a bunker near the Goczałkowickiej dam. The Vantage Pro2 is an important tool for ...

May 23, 2011

This Vantage Pro2 is Texas tough

Matthew McGee has his Vantage Pro2 nicely installed with the anemometer at 30 feet and the temperature and rain sensors closer to the ground. Eventually he will add Solar Radiation and UV sensors, and a Wireless Leaf & Soil Moisture Temperature ...

May 23, 2011

Spring Furies Unleashed by La Niña (et. al.)

After a long, cold winter, spring has finally arrived in the northern hemisphere. People who are not weather buffs tend to think of spring in terms that are gentle and sweet, like fluffy baby bunnies and daffodils nodding in a gentle shower. But ...

May 23, 2011

Vantage Pro2 likes this windy mountaintop

We liked John Lyndsey`s article in the February 2 issue of the San Luis Obispo Tribune about the interesting weather mountaintops get - most importantly, wind and lightning. In the article, he says that "at a height of 33 feet, the winds often move ...

May 23, 2011

La Mesa Writer/Meteorologist provides local weather reports

Paul Richmond, of La Mesa, California, knows a nice photo backdrop when he sees one! He uses his Vantage Pro2 Plus with fan aspirated radiation shield, shown here looking down on Paul from the roof, and his Wireless Temperature Humidity Station to ...

May 23, 2011

Weather underground featured in New York times

Check out this article in the New York Times about Weather Underground featuring Alan Steremberg, the president and co-founder. Not only do they do a good job of convincing us of the need for a network of weather stations (not that any of us needed ...

May 23, 2011

Snowy Arizona?

Jerry Madero loves living in sun-drenched Cornville, Arizona. He particularly liked it one morning in February when he got up early enough to capture this shot of his snowy backyard! "Measurable snow is a rare event here in Cornville, and it melts ...

May 23, 2011

Vantage Vue takes a hit but keeps transmitting

Tom Mogan is a happy Davis customer. Here is his story: "I wanted to tell you about my Vantage Vue that I purchased last summer. I installed it on a plastic PVC pipe, on the side wall of a 8-foot [2.4 m] by 1- foot [3 m] storage shed at the back of ...

May 23, 2011

This Vantage Pro2 plus sees Blue Skies and sunshine all winter

Just to offer a little counter-balance to the snowy scenes above, how about this wintry setup? This Vantage Pro2 Plus has no snow worries - it`s hurricanes that scare it! It is on the roof of the Sea Club Ocean Resort, right on the beach in Fort ...

May 23, 2011

Why you need to care about lapse rate

If you got in Willie Wonka`s glass (but let`s say its a thin, stretchy plastic) elevator and pushed the "1st Floor: Tropopause" button, you`d notice that as you rose through the troposphere, you`d get colder. (You`d also get deader, but this is ...

May 23, 2011

How to clear all alarms

"Accch! I can`t clear this darned alarm on my Vantage Pro2 console! " That`s what one of our Tech Support team members heard from the other end of the phone recently. Usually, our customers are happy to hear an alarm. It means they get the ...

May 23, 2011

Davis Marine product becomes a Davis Weather (Fun) product

Sarah Russell and her way cool dad, Tom, of Guilford, Connecticut, made the front page of the New Haven Register when they were caught using a Davis Windscoop™, a foam sled, and paddle to sail across the empty church parking lot. Windscoop is ...

May 23, 2011

Wellesley Massachusetts` own weatherman

Serious Weather Buff, Dr. John Halamka, of Wellesley, Massachusetts, was featured in an article in the Wellesley Patch. Dr. Halamka is the Chief Informational Officer at Harvard Medical School, and loves all things technological and outdoorsy. It`s ...

May 23, 2011

Roughed up by a Tornado in Arkansas

This is not the kind of weather photo we like to see, but it is always good to be reminded of the fact that air, the gentle and invisible stuff we live in, is the same stuff that makes a tornado so vicious. This photo was taken by Bev Periman, of ...

May 23, 2011

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