About This Station
The station is powered by an Oregon Scientific WMR968 Professional Weather Station. The data is collected every few seconds and the site is updated approximately every 4 seconds. This site and its data is collected using Weather Display Software. The station is comprised of an anemometer, a rain gauge, and a thermo-hydro sensor situated in optimal positions for highest accuracy possible.
A Little About Evansville
Evansville was born on 200 acres of land purchased from the government in 1812 by Hugh McGary, Jr. McGary enlisted General Robert M. Evans, an attorney and territorial legislator for whom Evansville was ultimately named, to assist in incorporating Evansville as a city. Evansville was officially incorporated on January 27, 1847 and has served as the economic and social center for the Tri-State area since that time. Located in Southwestern Indiana along the banks of the Ohio River, Evansville is Indiana’s third largest city and the regional hub for the Tri-State area. We are proud to be a city that values our heritage by preserving our past as we continue economic development to build for our future. Visitors remark on the warmth and friendliness of our community. Our genuine Hoosier hospitality is the number one reason why visitors enjoy their stay with us. We offer big city amenities with small town friendliness. We invite you to come see for yourself.
Some Local Attractions
Angel Mound State Historic Site
Angel Mounds State Historic Site is nationally recognized as one of the best preserved prehistoric Native American sites in the United States. It features interactive exhibits that tell the story of the people of the Middle Mississippian culture who inhabited this area from 1100 to 1450 A.D.
Bosse Field
Currently home to the Evansville Otters of the independent Frontier League, Bosse Field opened in 1915 and was the first municipally owned sports facility in the United States. Only Boston's Fenway Park (1912) and Chicago's Wrigley Field (1914) are older than Evansville's Bosse Field. Whether you're a sports fan or a history buff, this structure is sure to bring back memories.
Casino Aztar
Located in Downtown Evansville on the Ohio River, Casino Aztar's "Spirit of Evansville" is a 310 foot replica of the Robert E. Lee side-wheel steamboat, and features 1,400 slot machines and 50 gaming tables.
cMoe Childrens Museum
The Koch Family Children's Museum of Evansville has become the new favorite place for children of all ages from the Evansville and tri-state region! Visiting this museum is an experience that will engage your child to learn and have a ball - as in the Quack Factory assembly of sirens, bells and lights to signal the relay of the production sequence. Or let them try out their stage talents to write, direct and edit their own play complete with video replay to see themselves as stars!
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Evansville African American Museum
Evansville's newest attraction! The Evansville African American Museum is located in one of the nation's first housing projects - Lincoln Gardens - built in 1938 under President Roosevelt's New Deal Program. The community then was known as Baptisttown and was an independent, thriving community with black doctors, lawyers and educators. The EAAM celebrates the struggles, successes and experiences of the African American culture in Evansville throughout the last 70 years..
Evansville Museum and Koch Planetarium
The Evansville Museum of Arts, History and Science houses a $10 million permanent art collection ranging from 16th century paintings to modern sculptures by world-renowned artists. National and local traveling exhibits are available year-round. The children's learning and exploration center and renovated Koch Planetarium offer educational fun for all ages..
LST 325
This LST (Landing Ship, Tank) is an amphibious vessel designed to land battle-ready tanks, troops and supplies directly onto enemy shores. Ships of this type proved to be enormously useful during times of war and peace both. This particular LST was originally known as LST-325 during the Second World War, USNS LST-325 during its arctic operations in the 1950's, and later L-144 (A/G Syros) while it was in the service of the Greek Navy. It was acquired by The USS LST Ship Memorial, Inc., in 2000, and caught considerable public attention when our veteran crew brought it on a 6,500-mile journey from the Greek island of Crete to it's permanent base here in Evansville.
Mesker Park Zoo and Botanic Garden
Indiana's oldest zoo extends over 70 acres and is home to more than 500 animals. Pathways bloom and grow with local and exotic trees and plants. New exhibits include the Monkey Ship Bumper Boat area and an interactive otter display in the newly designed Children's Enchanted Forest.
Reitz Home Museum
Return to the days of Victorian elegance and grandeur by touring the historic Reitz Home Museum. Described as one of the country's finest examples of French Second Empire architecture, the Reitz Home Museum features period furniture, silk damask-covered walls, hand-painted ceilings, delicately molded plaster friezes, French gilt chandeliers and intricately patterned wood parquet floors
Willard Library
Willard Library is the oldest operating library in the state of Indiana. It was opened in 1885 under the directive to be a public library for the use of the people of all classes, races and sexes free of charge forever. The Special Collections department houses one of the most extensive collection for genealogy study in the Midwest. Sneak a peek at our famous Grey Lady with 24-hour viewing available on the Ghostcam on the library's website.
History of this Website
January 17, 2009 Added WXSim Forecasting Software to my Weather Station. Please see Bill's Forecast under Forecasts and Adviseries. Hopefully I won't be too far off with my forecasting.
January 16, 2008 WOW! I just took delivery on a brand new Boltek lightning detector, and Astrogenics NexStorm Software. I'm going to have to build a dedicated computer to start running my weather stuff. It's slowing down my main computer a bit. So, I probably won't get the Boltek up and running until then.
January 7, 2009 Look in the Footer of pages for Visitor info. Also in Menu under Who's Visiting. More updates to this soon.
January 5, 2009 Added Station Records Page. It is listed under Almanac in Menu. Watch for MML! Coming soon.
December 28, 2008 Upgraded Weather Display Live to version 6.03.
December 27, 2008 Added GRLevel3 Radar(Nexrad) page to radar tab. More goodies to come soon. Santa was good to me.
September 4, 2008 Modified rain gauge. Original detected rain at 0.04"(1.0mm) increments. Modified gauge records rain in ).006"(0.155mm) increments. finished just as it started to rain! Seems to be working perfectly.
August 10, 2008 Added page to show Olympic Medal Status..
July 26, 2008 Added 'vocal conditions' to home page. Also added icon to favicon to show up in browsers. Still working with Solar Sensor in a jar.
July 13, 2008 Raised Anemometer from 10 ft. above roof line to 22ft. above roof line. Added 3 more Radar images to 'Radar' page.
July 10, 2008 Added Weather Display Live page. Started updating Data to site every 4 seconds, instead of once every 5 minutes.
July 5, 2008 Added new images to Astronomy page.
June 15, 2008 Begin experimenting with setting up a "Solar Sensor in a Jar."
June 9, 2008 Repaired Advisory Page not updating.
June 6, 2008 Added more info to 'about' page, and repaired some coding errors.
May 26, 2008 WOW! What a change. Tim completely rebuilt my web site. It is really looking good!
May 10, 2008 Switched over to the Carter Lake Templates. Of course I didn't know what I was doing, but it was a vast improvement on my first attempt. Still had several items not working properly. I did however, give out the link to my site. Shortly after this date, a VERY kind gentleman in Michigan offered to help me 'clean up' my site a little.
May 6, 2008 This web site went live. It was my first attempt at a web site and looked bad enough that I wouldn't even give out the link to it to anyone.
This site is a template design by CarterLake.org with PHP conversion by Saratoga-Weather.org.
Special thanks go to Kevin Reed at TNET Weather for his work on the original Carterlake templates, and his design for the common website PHP management.
Special thanks to Mike Challis of Long Beach WA for his wind-rose generator, Theme Switcher and CSS styling help with these templates.
Special thanks go to Ken True of Saratoga-Weather.org for the AJAX conditions display, dashboard and integration of the TNET Weather common PHP site design for this site.
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Special Thanks also go to Tim Hanko for his continued dedication in setting up this web site.
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