As part of my work I recently helped in the IT side of setting weather station. Its linked to a webpage on our Intranet. As it can't be seen without logging into our network and getting certificates and stuff like that I took some screen shots for you to view
The home page.
Live wind speed
Wind speed over the last month.
Nice work Mobydisc
Don't suppose there is any chance of Seabreeze users having some sorta limited access to that data only?
Or using that data on here?
Can I have my own one too?
You could have your own for about $2500 or something like that.
Not much point having the data as the station is not near any water, its at Hornsby.
Its not too hard to set this up on an Internet site as long as the server has access to the intranet server. All it needs is to configure the index file to point towards the text files which are updated by FTP from the computer which is attached to the weather station console.
There are plans to put this on my school's website as it would be of interest to people in the area and would be an asset to the local community.
Wouldn't it be great to have similar stations in areas close to where we go windsurfing? Thereby getting another source of information.
for people who use Mac computers with the Leopard OS you can get a couple of pretty good widgets from the Apple site for weather conditions.
I have a 7 day BOM forcast, and a current wind strength on Morten Bay that come up when I hit the dashboard. Also have a good converter which amoung other things will convert knots to Km/hr and visa versa.
As you read this, we are in the process of building the software to accept the feed from this particular brand of software.
Aiming to have a new NSW graph appear next week once we get it done .. so .. if you know of any other stations with this software, and are near H20, drop me a line, and it can be added in.. 
.. all very exciting! 
Good work Laurie. Your on the ball.
So new graph will have more categories of info?
Here's one that's been around for a while.
South coast NSW area.
www.flystanwell.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=136&Ite
...here's an idea...
Maybe SeaBreeze (Laurie) and one of these weather station manufacturers could collaborate and form a package that we as sailors could set up (temporary and/or permanent) , either as individuals or organisations, at popular sailing spots. Lets start the WindNetwork! Maybe one day the Bureau will buy met data off seabreeze?
.. all very exciting!
this is a bit off..but since i relied on the airport control tower a km. upwind of where we sail for windspeed and directions they happen to build a newer airport 20kms. inland so not too accurate. Has anyone remembered on the windsurfing magazines
they were selling weighted flags or probably the fabric in 2-3 sections, for ex: if the wind is at 12-15kts. the lower half would be sway horizontal while the top half limp and when it gets past 15 up to 20kts. both flags would flutter like crazy...if someone can tell me how to make one simply so i could stick it on a favorite spot and just call by landline which one is fluttering the top or bottom instead of asking a gadzillion questions to a non-windsurfer
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Wouldn't it be great to have similar stations in areas close to where we go windsurfing? Thereby getting another source of information.
Umm correct me if I'm wrong but don't we already have several wind stations around Sydney that we all as seabreeze users log in to check on a regular basis?? Last time I checked there was a station at Sydney Airport and Kurnell which are both spots I sail at.
.. all very exciting!
What budget is entry level? The one we got cost about $2500. I'm not sure if there are cheaper models. Perhaps there are. I can find out if you want.
Yes its true there are good weather stations on the south side of Sydney but there is only one on the north side, at North Head. That station's readings don't always seem to reflect reality further up the coast, unless of course the wind is light.
You can have cameras going with this software too.
I work for a salmon farm in Tasmania and we're about to purchase two weather stations. They will measure wind speed and wind direction and will have a digital compass to compensate for pitch and roll motion (they'll be deployed at sea). I'm dealing with Environdata (environdata.com.au/) who have been excellent. They've spent quite a bit of time working on the motion compensating side of things. The basic model with solar panel is around $3,500 (which is all you would need if located on land), add about $1750 for a Next G modem and another $1500 for the motion compensator. They come with all their own software and will be set up so we can access the data live from out intranet. The mooring buoys we're building will cost around $6,000 ea and the units will be mounted on these 5m above sea level along with navigational lights. These units could be deployed just about anywhere.
