Golden Bay New Zealand- Takaka

Paynes Ford Station

General Info about Paynes Ford weather station and this web site.....

The station used is a Davis Vantage Pro 2 plus solar and UV instruments and is sited about 200 meters from the Paynes Ford bridge. This station has been going since June 2009 and replaced a LaCrosse WS3600 which has been on site since March 2007. June and July 2009 have been used to test and calibrate the Davis and it became fully operational in August 2009.

The station continuously produces a range of data of which summaries are posted on this website, either live or in report form. The daily re-set/cut-off time for averages/extremes is at midnight.

Operational times for the website uploads are between 6 am and midnight (NZ local time), or around the clock in a significant weather event. For the night hours data will be maintained by the data logger and processed at start-up in the morning to update the records.

Wind speed and direction from anemometer to station are updated every 2-3 seconds and rainfall is updated every 10 seconds. All other data is updated every minute. Live data uploads to the web site (WDL) take place every 10 seconds and the records (extremes) get updated every 10 minutes.

The station and the web site are a hobby, a bit over the top no doubt, but a hobby nevertheless. It has major advantages to forecast "only" for the Bay area (and Paynes Ford in particular), however when boating or tramping it is advisable to also obtain forecasts from other sources as mentioned in the links, BOM (Australia) and Metvuw in particular are detailed and of good quality.

Suggestions, questions or requests for more detailed data can be made via email