(I’m getting the same error.)

Tried it in both IE8 and Firefox 3, same result. Comcast is my ISP.

Anyway, I’m home again. No Grand Meadow this trip, as it is significantly in the opposite direction of the others from my starting point. I’ll go down there later in the summer if no one else does.

I have pics of Hillsboro, ND to upload. Security guard called her boss and got permission. Also got a short interview with her, tho she’s not the main climate station person there. Stevenson screen, but no MMTS (she was quite firm on that). She also said the thermometer in the shelter developed “a bubble” some (indefinite) time ago and they requested a new one but one was not forthcoming. So they went out and got an indoor/outdoor wireless thermometer and placed the outdoor sensor in the shelter “about six months ago” (i.e. dead of North Dakota winter) and read it from the security post nearby on an hourly basis and use that to report.

She showed me the sheet/clipboard where they note the temps, and the hand unit for the readout. No model number on it, but said “LaCrosse Technology” on the bottom of the face. I know the typical home market indoor/outdoor wireless units are not very good for cold climates, at least in part because batteries don’t like cold. I have not tried to look for specs on the LaCrosse unit yet –maybe there are commercial grade indoor/outdoor ones that are more hardy.

Anyway, off to cut the grass at home. I’ll upload Hillsboro this evening.

“That would be a Fischer Porter Rain Gauge.”

Geo
I find this resource useful in understanding what I’m looking at:

http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/coop/Publications/coophandbook2.pdf

John the Slow Learner

That would be a Fischer Porter Rain Gauge.

The station that appears to have the longest record is the Anchorage airport, Hansen uses it in GISTEMP. There also appears to be one at the NWS office there. How about those? Let me know and I’ll locate them for you.
- Anthony

Send me an email — I’ll be more than happy check them out.

Also, in a couple weeks I’ll be in Palmer and Valdez. Are there stations in those places also?

Now, my Roseau story. Evan suspected the site was gone. I got there, looked around, couldn’t find it, not even the radio station. Finally went across the street to the Holiday gas station/conveinence store. Showed the clerk my inkjet prints of a MMTS, Stevenson screen, and standard rain gauge. No recognition. Then I mentioned the radio station. Ah ha! Yes, the radio station moved two years ago. It is now two blocks north and three blocks west. But the building on the corner was where it used to be.

So I went back to that building. It was in three connected parts. Easternmost part now has a Culligan sign on it and looking in the windows they are storing Culligan supplies there. Middle part has a “space for rent” sign on the window. Westernmost part is an attached garage that I didn’t look in the window. Should have I guess. More interesting, adjacent to the garage on the west was a fenced in on two sides (but open to the front) grassy area. In that grassy area was the remanants of a concrete stand with rusted bolts in it. My imagination tells me that could be a rain gauge stand. Tho I suppose rain gauges aren’t the only things you put on concrete stands near garages.

Anyway, I have photos of that site if you want me to upload them. Then I went to the new site of the radio station, but no one was there. I have pictures around there too, but there’s no suitable spot for a climate station. Unless it is on the roof. I saw some dishes up there, but couldn’t see well enough to say if a climate station might be up there or not. I suppose we could call the radio station and see if we can get them to confirm the old site and if the MMTS was adjacent to the concrete stand I found. Let me know if you want the potential “old site” pics uploaded.

REPLY: In my experience, rain gauges aren’t often with the MMTS, the rain gauges can be placed anywhere for best wind considerations, but the MMTS has cable trenching issues. I’ll do some research and advise. Thanks for your efforts! – Anthony

Y’all will have to tell me what I saw at Pembina and NWS. I was prepared for MMTS, Stevenson screens and rain gauges. This was, uhh, a solar-powered milk can. Anthony probably has one behind his garage.

Got Baudette (in front of Police Dept building in the general vacinity), Hallock (big gorgeous lawn. . .and there it was up close to the building and shaded against the afternoon sun –only sunny pics I got today). Pembina, and Grand Forks today. Hillsboro tomorrow, hopefully.

Roseau was no joy, as Evan warned might be the case. But I have some pics and a story that may or may not be worth something. Back later after I eat and upload my pics.

I will do survey forms when I get back home.

Took pictures looking south and east at Mora today. The plant was closed and I was outside the fence, so that was the best I could do. Easy to spot at least. Still pretty good shots I think. Old Stevenson screen between the MMTS and the rain gauge. If I can figure out how to upload them tonight (first time), I will.

Baudette in the morning, hopefully.

REPLY: Thanks so much! – Anthony

What appears to be the radio station is on Glenwood Dr., second building to the east, less than a tenth of a mile south from Brookshire Dr.

GREENVILLE WATER PLANT, OH
WATER PLANT, OUTSIDE & 1 MI W OF PO AT GREENVILLE, OH
Coordinates crude but not too far off.
On State Route 502 (Winchester Ave.), north side, 0.6 miles west of town.