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Help! Lightning zapped my ~40 year old Heathkit ID-4001 wx station, so I'm looking a replacement. So far, I've found no unit that can substitute for the following ID-4001 features important to me:
* red color digits are visible during day, but not too bright for the bedroom at night
* digits large enough to be discerned from 10 feet away
* wind direction and speed displayed in real time (no latency)
The 4001 cost roughly $2500 in today's dollars, so I'd go that far for something with a similarly-functional display. All modern stations I see online have displays too bright for night and/or digits too small to read from a distance. I don't need lots of stats, nor wifi. Indoor/outdoor temp, baro, real-time wind, and clock will suffice. What model might be the closest to what I seek? Alternatively, does anyone repair old Heathkits?
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Thanks WVclimo, but I get same expired response at www.weather.gov. I've been using a university site to access LWX AFDs but they don't mirror the forecasts.
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is there a site mirror for NWS forecasts?
the usual one has been inacessible all month:
"forecast.weather.gov uses an invalid security certificate. The certificate is not trusted because the issuer certificate has expired." -
125/69 in my attic
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power already flickering here as first sound of distant thunder arrives
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storm severity was a surprise, power out more than 6 hours, measured 0.60"
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I'd estimate 1" in past 24 hours W of BWI, my digital gauge was reading too low because it had a tiny leaf interfering with its tipping bucket, interesting that it was still registering a non-zero amount despite the leaf
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digital says 0.19" so far for the event W of BWI, which sounds too low compared to my eyeballing rainfall rates, gotta put out an old-school gauge to compare
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so far 0.15" for the event W of BWI
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nothing here so far, those green areas on radar have been splitting west and east as they head north
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If we keep getting these "drought busters" the area is going to become a desert. Instead we need a "build an ark" event in which case we might net half an inch.
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another 0.02" today brings May's total to 0.19", more misses than a 24-hour Vegas wedding chapel, radar shows that batch of rain moving east from WV is no match for the local drywall
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We've learned what area wide and widespread mean. Added 0.02" overnight for a monthly grand total of 0.17 W of BWI.
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still drier W of BWI than Carrie Nation's home town
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in case anyone is listening, the security certificate for forecast.weather.gov expired today, which means some folks can't view the site
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nary a drop today here W of BWI, still stuck at 0.15" for the month
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0.15" total for the month W of BWI, not exactly what I was hoping for
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Totally busted the Trace previously recorded for the month thanks to the soaking 0.01" added today west side of BWI.
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hanging tough at 0.00T total for the month, it's a capital T so we good
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Drywall still intact here after today's T of tstorm sprinks
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I'd like some free water for the plants but whoever put up the drywall to our west did a heckuva job.
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Interpreting wx radar after color inflation:
green = partly cloudy,
dark green = cloudy,
yellow = virga,
orange = sprinkles,
red = moderate sprinkles,
purple = light rain,
blinking dark purple = rain,
radar inoperative = rain, sometimes moderate
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in weather radar, yellow is the new green
July Discobs 2025
in Mid Atlantic
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