Posted by admin on April 19, 2012
Well our first chase of 2012 was a complete success, myself, my son Aaron, his girlfriend and Joe Renken spent the day in Kansas. 20+ hours and just over 1000 miles. We saw a storm produce several tornadoes just east of Salina, KS. We do have a few things we need to address, as a group we used way to much data during the long ride. Our biggest mistake was the video camera was not recording during the time we actually had tornadoes in the viewfinder. A simple mistake we have all made, we have moved forward, nothing can be done now but learn from our mistakes.
To add to our exciting week, our Solar PV install is complete, the first 2 days have seen some impressive production numbers. Over 35 kwh after 1pm on day one and over 40 kwh on day 2. Peak output was just of 6 kw on day one and achieved a very nice 6.6 kw today. I have started a holding page to document our solar experience, images and a timelapse of the installation can be seen currently, more content will be added in the future: St. Louis Solar
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Tags: Enphase, Solar, Solarworld, Storm Chasing, Streaming Video, Thunder, Tornado, Video, Weather
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Posted by admin on April 13, 2012
Sorry for no updates recently, I have had projects ranging from a 30 panel 7.65 kw solar installation at our home to getting a new car ready for chase season 2012. We are heading out tomorrow, 4/14 for our first chase this year. Currently we are planning on heading to Western Missouri shortly after mid-day, then we will make a target location. Our live video stream should be available most of the day, if we have internet, we will be streaming. The live stream is available by clicking on the “Chase/Live Video” button on our homepage.
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Posted by admin on January 23, 2012
Looks like the sun is going through a rather active period lately. It’s possible we will be able to view an Aurora(Northern Lights) Tuesday morning or night. Currently the arrival or start time is estimated to be 8am our time, hopefully it will hold off until the evening. If you head outside, try to find a dark area so your eyes adjust to the dark, then just look to the northern sky, more towards the horizon.
Keep in mind I am looking for multiple backup chasing partners for this years storm season. My son Aaron is in college and working a part time job, there will be days I will be in need of a body in my car. This will either involve driving my car or operating the laptop, navigating, along with the streaming camera, camcorder(s) and still camera. Sounds simple? If interested send me an email, the link is at the bottom of our homepage. I am hoping to have several people committed and trained so that I don’t have to chase alone this year…..
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Posted by admin on January 1, 2012
Well here we are, 2012 has arrived, 2011 although exciting weather wise was also very devastating, prayers go out to those lost to severe weather in 2011.
Here is our 2011 summary of weather conditions from our weather station in O’Fallon, MO. I know you all have been up all night waiting for this! ;)
Temperatures: 44 days of 90° or higher, 9 more than 2010, 23 days with a high below 32°, 13 less than 2010, we had 87 days with a low of 32° or colder, 12 less than 2010, and 1 day with a low of 0° or below, 1 less than 2010. High recorded was 103.1° and the low was -1.2.
We recorded 40.56 inches of rain, with measurable rain on 105 days, 70 days recorded totals over .10 inch, and 9 days over 1 inch of rain.
The wind average was 3.8 mph with a high gust recorded @ 48 mph.
2011 brought several storm chases for us including our youngest son’s first chase. This happened on the Good Friday/St. Louis tornado storm. We observed this storm from Ashland, MO to Weldon Springs and gave up due to light and I don’t like to chase in heavily populated areas. We also chased in Minnesota, Iowa and Illinois this past year. I went on several chases by myself, limiting my ability to get a reasonable amount of photos/video, Aaron’s schedule has picked up with work, school and his band Eventide Landlocked taking up his free time. This brought on some unique challenges for me, there is a lot to do when chasing, it is a two person job. Look for an announcement later this month; I am in need of a primary/backup chase partner(s).
Happy 2012 everyone!
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Tags: 63366, 63376, Ofallon Weather, St. Louis, St. Peters Weather, Storm Chasing, Storm Spotter, Streaming Video, Tornado, Video, Weather
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Posted by admin on December 17, 2011
First of all, I increased the bit rate of our daily time-lapse videos by 62%, so far it seems to have “smoothed” out the movement of clouds. Our webcams and daily time-lapse can be viewed at O’Fallon Weather Webcams and Daily Time-Lapse
Alright, here we go again, this weekend we have 2 items to give away. We have another Midland WMR-300 Weather Radio and in a seperate drawing a $25 iTunes Gift Card. I am collecting names here and on Facebook
Just reply to this post or via email to be entered!
Drawing will be @ 6 pm Sunday, 12/18/2011.
Our winner last week entered via Facebook, congrats to Phil Noack, I personally delivered his radio to him on Friday!
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Posted by admin on December 9, 2011
Time to start our Christmas Giveaway, this weekend we are giving away 1 Midland WR-300 Weather Radio. To enter, just reply with “add me” to this post, you have 48 hours, drawing will be @ 6pm Sunday, 12/11/2011. One entry per person, FYI: we are also accepting entries through our Facebook Page:
O’Fallon Weather on Facebook
Midland WR-300
We have no intention of using anyone’s email for profit or further communication unless you enter it into our subrscribe2 form.
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Tags: Giveaway, Midland Weather Radio
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Posted by admin on December 2, 2011
Although this has been up for some time now, O’Fallon Weather in partnership with Foristell, MO Weather have a live audio feed of the St. Louis National Weather Service NOAA Radio. This link is available on the homepage of both websites.
Our 3rd webcam in now fully operational, after careful consideration my son and I decided on a view looking due north. Over the years we have watched many storms worthy of recording come from this general direction. This should also provide us with another view of nightime lightning shows for our live streaming during severe weather events.
It is December, start of Meteorological Winter, so it should come as not surprise that we start to see mention of frozen precipitation. Over the next several days we will see rain then we are seeing some indication of a possible snowfall in the area on Monday. Rain or snow, next week may bring our first lows in the teens since last Winter.
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Posted by admin on November 13, 2011
So it’s been way to long, the weather has been quiet, but we have had a lot going on behind the scenes here at ofallonweather.org
We have changed webhost again, it is very important to me that my visitors get to the site when they want, not when my webhost decides to fix issues. We were down for over 20 hours during the month of September, so I pulled the plug, the site is now hosted out of Chicago.
We also have celebrated the 1 year anniversary of our webcams. I have tried to put together a year long time lapse with no results….Yet, give me some time. We will be adding a 3rd camera soon, I have had it testing for some time now, I just can’t decide where and what direction is best.
I have also wiped and reloaded the computer here at our home that keeps the site updated, this system runs over 10 programs all the time, when we stream live video that jumps to over 15 programs. It is a quad core cpu with 2 gigs of ram, processor usage averages 25%. We were experiencing some instability due to some freeware I tested on the system in the last several months.
Thanks for stopping by, look for more updates as the weather picks up for winter!
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Posted by admin on August 30, 2011
Well after some last minute location changes, our latest weather station is up and running! It is located at Polestar Boating Center, on the banks of the Mississippi River. For those familiar with the area it is at the bottom of the Dardenne Slough, just upstream from the Illinois/Mississippi River confluence. I will be adding more to the site in time. No webcam at this time, but I do have a link on the homepage to another site with 2 webcams on the river nearby. River Weather Home Page
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Posted by admin on July 14, 2011
Friday and Saturday will be busy for me. I will be at Tri City Speedway Friday night, the website has sponsored 5 laps of the 100 lap Super Late Model Feature.
Saturday I offered our live video stream for the Blessing of the Fleet, this will be by the Shrine @ Portage des Sioux, MO. I am aiming at getting the video stream going around 1 pm. The parade of boats should be visible around 2 and the ceremonies should start around 2:15 as the boats pass the Our Lady of the River Shrine. Just announced yesterday: the Alton Water Ski Club will be putting on a 1 hour show immediately following the Blessing. I am planning on streaming this also, I am still waiting to hear back from the club, I just want to make sure they are alright with the video stream.
Till next time, stay cool!
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Tags: Alton Water Ski Club, Blessing of the Fleet, Portage de Sioux, St. Louis, Streaming Video
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