Lehigh Weather Station 3, Mountaintop Campus (part of LEO WeatherNet)
Lehigh University Weather and Stream Monitoring Stations (Lehigh Valley, PA USA)

 

An electronic weather station (Lehigh Weather Station 3) has been located on South Mountain near Lehigh's Iacocca Hall in Bethlehem Pennsylvania since 2001.
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Site Location (NAD-27 Datum)
  Latitude :    40.602 oN 
  Longitude : 75.358 oW 
  Elevation :  918 ft (280 m) 
  Data
2001-present: 15-minute intervals
precipitation, temperature, dew point, wind, %RH, solar radiation (heat and UV-B)
 The photograph above (September 11, 2002) is a view looking NE showing the solar power module in the foreground (for a Trimble GPS base station and radio communications).  The solar-powered Davis Instruments Health Monitor is linked to the computer network via Proxim RangeLAN2 spread spectrum radio modem. Because the rain gage of the current station is not heated the precipitation records are subject to anomalous readings during freezing weather.
Characteristics of the weather station electronics 
(under construction)

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