Welcome ... The HOME of the "Rockleigh SA Weather Station" is here at 007Digital.net. A professional Davis Weather Station is privately operated to bring Live, Quality Controlled and Accurate weather data to the greater Rockleigh community; everyone is welcome. Note -: This website is designed for Landscape View.

Rockleigh (-34.99° 139.09°) is located in the Adelaide hills on the Eastern edge of the Mount Lofty Ranges 45 Kms/28 miles East of Adelaide (approx. 80Kms/50Miles by road) in South Australia. Rockleigh has a mixture of large areas of original native & regenerated bushland, interdispersed with farmland that together attracts abundant wildlife, all the way up to large mobs of kangaroos. The varied species of Eucalyptus trees, commonly known as Gum trees or "Gums", along with other diverse native "bush" is studded throughout the rolling hills and valleys where many deep & rocky gullys with winter creeks can be found! Due to Rockleigh being located on the edge of the Mount Lofty Ranges, Rockleigh's rainfall varies considerably over short distances, likely contributing to the diversity of flora & fauna. Travelling West and/or North through more elevated hills, you tend to see higher rainfall areas & travelling South and East, you see lower rainfall as the hills start to give way to the plains of the Murraylands and the nightime temperatures drop as the cold air moves down from the ranges.

As the microclimates are so unique along the eastern edge of the Mount Lofty Ranges, it's valuable to have a weather station. All the data is live and automatically updated every 30 seconds, so the data reflects the changing weather conditions in real time. This helps short term forcasting and makes the weather more interesting for those interested in meteorology. For those that regularly visit this website, thank you, as it makes the project worthwhile. Your welcome to email me at 001|at|007Digital.net. All the best ... Rob.

ABOUT THE DATA

The Data Page -: Data is updated every 30 seconds and is Reset at 00:00 Hrs daily, including rain. The time stamp is the exact time the data was captured. Please cross check the time (top right) to verify that the Data is live. Fields with "Bracketed Labels" overide column headings & show current data. Numerals with single primes, (eg. 15') indicates minutes. If the Data page is not formatting correctly, try reducing your browsers text size. METSTAR or MET☆ = Meteorological Status & Reporting. Note -: Data is not updated during a power or Internet outage.

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007Digital -: Quality Controlled - YES¹. All reasonable efforts are made to ensure the data on this Website remains accurate. All Data is stored both locally and remotely. After a Power Outage ... "Restoring > Verifying Data" will be appended to the weather forecast until the process is complete. (Note -: Occasionally after a restore the "Solar Radiation (Avg24) & (Avg24/Mth)" fields average may be reset & the "Last Rain" field may be in error.)  ¹Data accuracy is not guaranteed.

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Hosted Websites -: Quality Controlled - NO. WeatherCloud and WeatherUderground's free subscriptions were created for evaluation purposes only and do not allow access to your Cloud data. As they require an "always on" data stream they are intrinsically error prone, so please be aware that historical data may contain errors!

Note -: If you sign up to WeatherCloud (free), you will have access to 12 months of historical Data in the Weather Database, Reports & Plots sections. WeatherUnderground by default allows you to view daily, weekly or monthly data for all years. Paid membership offers further options explained on their websites. Links are on the Rain page.

SOLAR RADIATION & Watt/Hrs

Solar Radiation -: The "Solar Radiation/Hr xxxx Wm² (Avg24/Mth)" field is a 24 Hr/Day running average for the current month so far, making it easy to calculate your panels average power production in Watt/Hrs. Multiply the value by your panels square metreage & then multiply by your panels % efficiency & then multiply by the number of days your interested in. For high accuracy, calculate the value at the end of the month at midnight. Similarly, the Y-Days - "Solar Radiation/Hr xxxx (Avg24)" field can be used to calculate yesterday's average power production in Watt/Hrs.

WEATHER STATION SPEC'S

Weather Data Update Intervals -: The Weather Data is predominantly live so you can view the weather as it happens. All the data is automatically updated every 30 Seconds, so it will never be more than seconds old. The time on the Data Page is the exact time the data was captured by the logger and is available to view milliseconds later. Weather Data is updated 2,880 times per Day & 1,051,200 times per Year. (-:

WX Station Hardware -: The "Davis Instruments Vantage Pro 2" is a professional weather station that was accurately calibrated & installed in January of 2018 at an Altitude of 253 + 4 Mts ASL with 360° views. The station was located adhering as closely as practicable to the "Weather Station Sighting Guidelines"; a purpose built site was not prepared. Hardware -: • Weather Station - Davis Instruments Vantage Proffesional 2 Plus (Wireless) • IP Data Interface & Logger - Davis Weather Link IP • IP Data Logger - Meteobridge IP.

Sensor Update Intervals -: • Wind Data - Every 2.25 - 2.5 Seconds (Speeds up to 300 Kmh, Azimuth 1° Resolution) • Temperature, Humidity, Dew Point etc. - 10 Seconds (Triple Sheilded & Fan Aspirated Sensors) • Barometer - 16 Seconds • Rain - 20 Seconds (0.2 mm Resolution) • Solar Radiation - 50 Seconds.

ROCKLEIGH NOTES

Internet Access in Rockleigh -: If you are looking for an alternative to the NBN,™ Swoop™ based in the Barossa Valley supplies FAST Wireless Internet Services to property's with line of sight to Murray Bridge. They also service many other country areas.

The Rockleigh CFS -: Thank you to all the members of The Rockleigh CFS and the countless others that assist them for your hard work and dedication.

Some Local History -: The Rockleigh School was built in the early 1900s after a previous classroom was conducted from 1881 to 1904 in the Gum Gully area. The school had 12 Students in 1907 and was finally closed in 1942.

Privacy -: You can be assured of your privacy. This website does not use advertising, cookies or tracking technology. The clocks have links to TimeandDate.com that have their own privacy policy. This website supports HTTPS.

Data Warning¹ -: The data on this website is offered in good faith without any guarantees as to its accuracy & in consequence should not be used for important purposes.

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