Batteries Hold Up Enough To Get GWC Wx Station Data To Computer

Good afternoon everyone.  I have some great news.  I was able to recover all of the data from earlier this week including those recorded during the peak of Hurricane Irene on Sunday.  I went back to the house this morning, picked up my iMac mini, Vantage Pro 2 weather station console, media card reader, and external hard drive.

I later had to return to the house because I forgot the keyboard and mouse, but once I got everything together, I tried to power everything on.  While the external hard drive didn’t mount, I was able to copy my movie clips from my media card to my computer, and upload data from my weather station console to the computer as well.  It took a few tries, but the data from Sunday did transfer to the iMac mini including the time of lowest pressure at 8:30 AM.

The pressure actually got down to 28.63 inches of Hg, or approximately 970 millibars.  It was the lowest pressure ever recorded at the GWC Weather Station.  The previous low was 28.80 recorded in the Nor’easter of April 2007 (I will have to double check on that!).  Another interesting stat that I was able to discover was that since my new weather station was installed back in mid-June, we have had 20.51 inches of rain!  Of that total, 15.34 inches have come in August alone.

As far as the video goes, I compiled over 33 minutes of footage from Irene’s effects in town and at our hotel on Sunday.  In total, I captured over 50 minutes of video from the storm as it approached and rolled through the area. It’s the best storm footage that I’ve ever captured.  I did take some time to think about how I was going to put together the video footage from Sunday, and I’ve decided to create several different video showing the storm in stages.  Once I get it all on YouTube, I will try to combine all the videos into one DVD.