This website is a private weather station that was created as a hobby and a way to provide very local weather to the people of this area. Due to Jacksonville's extremely large geographic area and the fact that the Jacksonville International Airport (where local weather information comes from) is located in North Jacksonville, it often does not provide weather information that is relevant to this area of Jacksonville. Remember, never base important decisions on this or any weather information obtained from the Internet.

We must give credit where credit is due.. The layout, as well as some of the PHP code for this site was with the help of CarterLake.Org .
Credit also goes to  TNET Weather  for his work converting the original HTML based template to be used with PHP. Please visit these sites and say Thanks!

About This Station

This station is located at: Lat: N 30 ° 10 ' 46 '' ( 30.180 ° ), Lon: W 81 ° 35 ' 18 '' ( -81.589 ° ), and at an Elevation of: 21 ft.

The site data is received from a Davis Vantage Pro2 (6153 with Fan Aspirated Radiation Shield) wireless weather station. There is also an Oregon Scientific (WMR-968) wireless weather station that is used as a backup. Both of these stations are completely solar powered with battery backup. The website is refreshed every 2 minutes, the data is constantly gathered from the station instruments. The instruments are located at my home. The instruments are mounted in a manner such that no obstacle (that I can help) should interfere or cause erroneous readings. The instruments are calibrated and are very accurate.

Data is compiled and processed by many pieces of software. Weather Display is the primary software, along with Davis WeatherLink, VPLive and Virtual Weather Station, are some of the software packages used to gather data from the instruments. They gather data from the weather stations and process that data for web site display and Weather Display Live. Data is also archived for use in creating custom graphs and reporting in a database by other software. There is also software from Astrogenic (several packages) that is used to process the data from our lightning detector. GRLevel software is used to process radar data that comes from feeds that we receive. This is just a brief overview and is not at all inclusive. There are many other software packages, including many custom written scripts, as well as hardware, that all have to work with each other to bring this site to you.

The web site is running on Linux using Apache, PHP, Perl, and MySQL database software to name some of the major server packages. The site is running custom scripting written mostly in PHP and Perl.

On October 11, 2005 an article  written about RiverCityWeather.Net was published in a local newspaper called The Creek Line. This newspaper is a local county paper that is delivered free of charge to all residents of several zip codes in St. Johns County, FL. One of our users (we still do not know which one) sent an email to the publishers and asked them to do a story on us. The user stated "I find the site invaluable". I wish I knew who it was, but at any rate, it is very nice to hear words like that. I do not think most people realize the amount of work that goes into RiverCityWeather.Net. It is a never ending chore! One that I enjoy for the most part.

If you would like to see the article, click here.  It is a bit large (350k), so if you are on a dial-up connection be patient.

Our Data Partners

We share our data with the following organizations. Please visit these sites and show your appreciation for all they do!

Anything Weather  (Our ID: fl-jacksonville02)
Citizens Weather Observer Program  (Our ID: AR919)
HAM Weather  (Our ID: W4EDP)
National Weather Service  (Our ID: AR919)
NOAA  (Our ID: AR919)
StrikeStar  (Our ID: RCY)
Weather For You  (Our ID: KFLJACKS28)
Weather Underground  (Our ID: KFLJACKS28)

Station Data Accuracy
 

Member AR919 of the Citizen Weather Observer Program  (CWOP). This station is also known as KFLJACKS28 and/or W4EDP depending on where you are getting information from.

The following data is reported to CWOP for KFLJACKS28 / AR919 / W4EDP (AR919 in blue) with the predicted data based on surrounding stations (AR919 Analysis in red). Included is data reported for the National Weather Service meteorological station located at Naval Air Station Jacksonville (KNIP in fuchsia). NAS-JAX is the weather closest to this Personal Weather Station. It is about 8.2 miles from this site.

Temperature

Barometric Pressure

Relative Humidity

You can see KFLJACKS28 / AR919 / W4EDP's CWOP data graphs here .

You can also see how KFLJACKS28 / AR919 / W4EDP compares  with the other sites in the CWOP network. This shows the performance of all the CWOP sites with KFLJACKS28 / AR919 / W4EDP marked specially. The target quality box is also shown.

 This quality checker was developed by Phillip Gladstone , CW0003.

The Citizen Weather Observer Program (CWOP) is a private-public partnership with the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration. It's three main goals: 1) to collect weather data contributed by citizens; 2) to make these data available for weather services; and 3) to provide feedback to the data contributors so that they have the tools to check and improve their data quality.

Weather Facts

Folklore - "If the sparrow makes a lot of noise, rain will follow."