Thursday  17-05-2012

About This Weather Station

The station is located at the heart of the Historical Center of Thessaloniki. Use the navigation symbols on the dynamic map below to walk through the location details.

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The station is powered by an automated wireless Davis Vantage Pro2-Plus. The data is collected every 2 seconds and the site is updated every 5 minutes. This site and its data is collected using Weather Display Software. The station is comprised of an anemometer, a rain gauge, a thermo-hydro sensor and solar/UV sensors, situated in optimal positions for highest accuracy possible.

The outdoor unit (ISS), is powered directly by a solar panel during daytime and at nightime, by energy stored into a "supercapscitor" which is also charged from the same solar panel during the day!

Weather Station Equipment

Installation Details/Equipment

Weather Station: Davis Vantage Pro2 Plus Wireless with Fan Aspirated Radiation Shield (FARS).

Solar Sensors: Solar energy and UV(ultra-violet) measurement sensors installed (since 10-Sep-2006).

Datalogger: Serial (RS232) interface (Weatherlink).

Installation: The Weather Station is installed 2 meters above the terrace of an 8 floor building. The surface underneath, is covered with gravel and ceramic tiles to block the heat radiated by the concrete and isolation coating. The console is located on the 5th floor, approximately 15 meters farther. It is connected to the server via serial(RS232) interface.

Server: Dedicated (24hours) PC, comprised of an Intel Dual Core CPU, 3GB DDR2-RAM, 120 GB HD, Windows XP/SP3 with remote administration.

Data Switch: 8-port TP-LINK Gigabit Switch.

Software: Weather Display v10.xx, Weather Display LIVE! v6.xx, Weatherlink 5.xx and WX-SIM weather forecast model.

Connectivity: Broadband aDSL connection 24/1 Mbps over POTS - ISP(HOL).

Router: Intracom NetFaster IAD2 AnnexA/Wireless(WiFi).

Sky-IPcam: Vivotek IP-7131.

Street-IPcam: LevelOne FCS-1030.

FARS: *Fan Aspirated Radiation Shield during daytime.

About the city of Thessaloniki

Thessaloniki or Salonica is the second-largest city in Greece and the capital of Macedonia, the nation's largest region. It is also the largest city in the wider geographical region of Macedonia. The Thessaloniki Urban Area extends around the Thermaic Gulf for approximately 17 kilometres (11 mi) and comprises 16 municipalities. According to the 2001 census, the municipality of Thessaloniki had a population of 363,987, while the metropolitan population approximates one million inhabitants.

Read here about the "adventure" of the term "MACEDONIA" (.pdf)

Thessaloniki is Greece's second major economic, industrial, commercial and political centre, and a major transportation hub for the rest of southeastern Europe. Its commercial port is also of great importance for Greece and its southeast European hinterland. The country's Prime Minister traditionally gives his annual governmental speech outlining plans for the year to come from the city.

Thessaloniki retains several Ottoman and Jewish structures as well as a large number of Byzantine architectural monuments. The city hosts an annual International Trade Fair, the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, and the largest bi-annual meeting of the Greek diaspora.

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About This Website (meteothes.gr)

meteothes.gr is a non profit personal website, based on my personal enthusiasm to meteorology and it is offered free of charge to the residents and visitors of Thessaloniki! The equipment, webauthoring and the montly expenses are covered by me, except a small part of the monthly expenses which are covered by the income from Google Ads!

This site is a template design by CarterLake.org with PHP conversion by Saratoga-Weather.org.

Special thanks go to Kevin Reed at TNET Weather for his work on the original Carterlake templates, and his design for the common website PHP management.

Special thanks to Mike Challis of Long Beach WA for his wind-rose generator, Theme Switcher and CSS styling help with these templates.

Special thanks go to Ken True of Saratoga-Weather.org for the AJAX conditions display, dashboard and integration of the TNET Weather common PHP site design

Special thanks to Angelos Vidalis of Vouhead Weather for his precious help of making the multilingual version of this site. for this site.

Cloud base graphic courtesy of Bashewa Weather

Template is originally based on Designs by Haran.

Solar - UV sensors and StreetCam are offered by Optika Pavlidis.