Weather Station Repairs – 1/17/2017

It was a beautiful January day on Allen Island and we took advantage of the mild weather to install a repaired weather station.   We are using a NexSense data logger with a cellular modem to access weather and water column data in real time.  Live Weather Data

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The new Luft 7-series sensor package provides temperature, rain, snow, wind speed, wind direction, and relative humidity data.

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The visit was also an opportunity to clean the salinity sensors.

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All of the work was carefully supervised by Dave’s dog Cody.

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It is the end of the lobster season for many of the local fishermen with thousands of traps stored on the dock for Winter.

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