New Layout

January 11th, 2010

In an effort to provide better service, we’ve made a change to the order information is displayed on the page. Hopefully you’ll agree the new layout gives you the information you need quicker then the old format.

If you agree or have a suggestion let us know by leaving a comment.

2009 Weather in Review

January 3rd, 2010

Below is a month-to-month summary of 2009 weather. Continue reading “2009 Weather in Review” »

Nuts and Bolts of my Weather Website

January 3rd, 2010

Hardware involved in the weather web site:

The Reata Place Weather web site uses many different technologies to create the weather page. In this article seven will be discussed to provide a behind the scenes look into each of these technologies to give you an understanding of how the weather web site works.
Continue reading “Nuts and Bolts of my Weather Website” »

Will 2009 be a White Christmas?

December 24th, 2009
Yes! That's snow on the ground.

Yes! That's snow on the ground.

It’s been snowing on and off for the last four hours. As the picture to the left shows, it’s starting to accumulate as the temperature gets closer and closer to freezing.

Will Christmas 2009 be a white one?

The forecast for this afternoon seems to indicate more snow is coming.

More Snow

Even more Snow at 3:15 PM.

This Afternoon: Snow likely and widespread blowing snow. Cloudy, with a high near 39. Windy, with a northwest wind around 30 mph, with gusts as high as 40 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. Total daytime snow accumulation of 1 to 3 inches possible.

The move has started

December 21st, 2009

Welcome to our new home. We’ve started the move from http://home.swbell.net/carrse1. This new hosting location offers so many more benefits then the old location, and I hope to expand on what’s offered.

Hope you agree.

Sorry for the outage….

December 18th, 2009

I had a new roof installed on the building that hosts the weather station. During the installation the Anemometer and Wind Vane were out of service. Luckily there wasn’t much wind on Wednesday and Thursday! The wind sensors are back to normal.

A very cold morning!

December 5th, 2009

It’s December 5th and this morning at 4:01 AM the temperature plunged to 21.2°F. It’s still Autumn! I’m beginning to wonder if this winter is going to be a cold one?

This isn’t the coldest temperature recorded by my Weather Station this year, but it’s pretty frigid. What was the coldest? 19.9°F was recorded the morning of January  28, 2009 between 7:33 and 7:41 AM. Today is the second coldest day of 2009 (so far) here in Benbrook.

Just for history sake, here’s today’s forecast:

Today: Sunny, with a high near 49. Windy, with a south wind 10 to 15 mph increasing to between 20 and 25 mph. Winds could gust as high as 30 mph.

Tonight: Partly cloudy, with a low around 37. South southeast wind around 15 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.

Well that’s it for the first blog entry of the new Benbrook-Weather.com. More to come as weather happens :)