Did some house keeping on the web site.
- fixed a few links
- correct the history data tables due to errors with the large amount of empty data when the weather station was down.
- fixed all top level menus to be the same
- Detail page weather forecast had problems as CBC changed their website. Now getting data direction from Environment Canada's page.
- Few other minor adjustments.

After over 4 years online with almost no outages, the weather station suffered a minor hardware failure that ended up taking a month to repair. Of course the failure happens when I'm not around to fix it. After few new batteries, forcing channel re-detection and rebooting the entire system (giving the one computer a good kick in the butt), the system came back up.
Sorry to leave a you unsure what to wear or whether to take an umbrella to work.

Some weather data that I was able to retrieve from the weather station console (as it continued to track the weather):
From July 7 till August 10, the station tracked 83mm of rain.

The hottest temperature this year was recorded at 31.1 Celsius on August 1 at 5:55pm

Had a web page outage from May 24 late evening till May 25 1pm. The weather station was still working fine, just nobody could see the information from the Internet - it was working fine for me :-).
The Telus router/modem went weird after I tried to apply a correction to the setup. All the firewall rules where there, just nothing was working. So after deleting the reapplying the rules (a number of times!), it finally took. Note to self, Telus router/modem is flaky and do not make any changes to it. Wish I could still use the much better Linksys Router and the external ADSL modem I had in before this Telus router/modem.

Updated the front page some more. Found the front page was a bit bloated (updated the code to fast and didn't optimize it), so I went through with a fine tooth comb and shaved off about 50kb. Page with all the content averages about 260kb.
Still planning on updating the rest of the site one of these days - too many other jobs on the go.

Working on an updated website with new features. No worries, the site will still have a familiar look and feel, just new features and more information. Feel free to comment and add suggestions.
A preview can be viewed here: (Removed and front page is now updated. Rest of the site will follow in the coming weeks.)
Cheers Jeff

Updated front page to a CSS layout design. I'll continue to work on the rest of the site as time permits. If you have any problems viewing the pages, please let me know.
Thanks

Welcome to the Olds Weather blog!

I'll use this area to post interesting weather information for the Olds, Alberta area. Also it will contain information about this weather station like maintenance logs and site information.

I'll also post interesting weather analysis reports from the data that this station has collected. Information like:
- average wind direction (did you know our average wind direction is NorthWest or South East? Not West like many believe.)
- month average temperature compared to Environment Canada's historic data (seeing warming trends here)
- barometer movements
- average temperature, wind speed, etc. (wind power isn't a good idea - our average wind speed over the year is too low, but solar is good.)

Other topics will be extreme weather for the area and other weather related information.

I don't get paid for this, so don't expect much. Most of the information posted here will be due to my curiosity or requested by someone.

Hope you enjoy the site and find it useful and feel free to leave comments in the blog (click the blog title to add comments).
Jeff