On Tuesday night I think it was, part way through the news on TV3 was an interesting doco on home weather stations and weather forecasting software and also weather station data management software - namely Weather-Display.  A friend of mine - Richard Huntingdon was seen showing off his station equiopment, and forecasting software Wxsim that he runs and explains anyone can do it but it does need some management software which he showed using Weather-Display.  Then it cuts to Brian Hamilton, "Weather-Display" on here , at his place and his engineering office and also a field Stevenson Shield box where he was checking some instruments.

After 24mins + you can see the start of this doco after the stage prop horse was shown in front of school kids.

http://ondemand.tv3.co.nz/6pm-Bulletin-Wednesday-November-21-2012/tabid/119/articleID/8858/MCat/425/Default.aspx

Use the slider at the bottom to find 24 mins.

Well done you two!  And software engineering has come a long way to making these weather stations we use, a real tool that can save data, present trends and graphs and pump the data to websites for publication and general public -presentation.  And the ability for one software package such as Wxsim to interrogate the datafiles on our PC from say Weather-Display, as well as the world GFS data from the US where they predict the general global weather pattern movements and changes, and this helps provide future data for predicitng the weather at an actual location - ie where the weather station is... at your home!

Yes I thought the same Deano

Mind that face might not play with us anymore now he is a movie star

not sure who that grey haird old blimmin was
(and not sure how Mike got to call me a retired dairy farmer, LOL...eveyone has been giving me heaps about that today!
LOL

Good stuff!!