DETAILED DESCRIPTION The present invention is a system which includes multiple weather stations, for collecting multiple weather parameters; a central ("base") microprocessor-based computer programmed with Windows-based (or other like operating system suitable for running multiple files simultaneously), to collect weather data from the multiple weather stations, automatically manipulate that data into informational subsets for display in graphic format; and means for transmitting that data to end users.
Each weather station normally includes some or all of the following instruments for sensing different weather parameters and the like: thermometer, humidity gauge, barometer, anemometer, rain gauge, water temperature sensor, snow depth gauge, cloud scanner, earthquake sensor, video camera.
Each weather station will normally include one or more analog to digital converters to convert the normally analog signals from the weather sensors into digital signals capable of being stored and manipulated by the base computer.
Often one of the weather stations in each system will be connected directly to the base computer, to measure weather conditions at the base, whereas the other weather stations will be positioned at locations remote from the base computer.
The remote weather stations communicate with the base computer via voice quality telephone lines, either permanently open telephone line or a dial up line.
Data is stored on a minute-by-minute basis for the entire period during which communication from the base to the remote weather station occurs.
If a remote site has a computer, it will download its datafiles for any time period (such as hour, day, etc.
) requested by the base site via phone line/modem.
Data can then be processed by computer at basesite.
It is not necessary, however, to maintain a computer at each location just to maintain historical data.
This is automatically accomplished by the base computer as the remote site sends in its readings.
There will be a data entry for each minute as long as the phone line is maintained
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