Weather/California/Instruments/CF029
Beside a road
RWIS network, identified by the register
Now, today, and the week
On the radar over I-40 - Barstow Maintenance YardReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
Drawn as the kind of place it stands at. 136 instruments in California stand at one.
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Snow on the ground
Station report
Drawn from the register, in the manner of the Field Book, and opened beside the plates that explain each part of it.
At 2,129 ft above sea level, 7 per cent of the atmosphere's air lies below the station. The standard atmosphere puts the pressure there at 27.69 inHg and the temperature at 51.4 F.
FB-ENG-001, Fig. AAtmosphere in sectionThe whole standard atmosphere this station stands in, from the ground to the edge of space.
FB-ENG-003, Fig. CHydrostatic balanceWhy a barometer 2,129 ft up reads less: it weighs only the air above it.
On Oct 4 the noon sun stands 51 degrees above the horizon at 34.89 N, and the day is 11 h 34 min long. Level ground there takes 77 per cent of the noon sunlight a surface facing the sun would.
FB-ENG-007, Fig. ARadiation budgetWhere the sunlight that reaches this ground goes once it arrives.
A road weather station, 2,129 ft above sea level. Its sensors, as its network builds them.
FB-INS-001, Fig. AWhat an instrument isA surface station taken apart: what each of these sensors is.
The instrumentWhat an instrument is FB-INS-001Stevenson screen and siting FB-INS-009
What it seesLapse rates and stability FB-ENG-005Water vapour as a gas FB-ENG-011Blizzard FB-EVT-081Ice storm FB-EVT-084Heat wave and heat dome FB-EVT-130Fire weather FB-EVT-139High wind FB-EVT-150Humidity variables FB-WAT-002Fog types FB-WAT-020