Station Metadata

This page contains our station metadata and should be viewed in conjunction with our observing program and quality assurance for a complete overview of our operations.

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Station Attributes
Standard Units
AWS History
Sensor Corrections
Current Instrumentation
Obsolete Instrumentation
Monitoring Software
Other Software
Photographs

Station Attributes
Full Name MADIS Id Latitude Longitude Altitude Time Zone Site Rating Climate Zone Opened Status
Truganina (Palm Lake Resort) F0878 -37.84446 144.70902 27.0 5 2017-04-01 Open
description approximate position description descriptions
The location of the Stevenson Screen is the reference point for latitude, longitude and altitude. .

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Standard Units
Pressure Rainfall Temperature Dew Point Relative
Humidity		 Wind
Speed		 Cloud
Amount		 Height Distance Air Quality
hPa mm C C % km/h oktas m km μg/m3

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Record of AWS Operations
Make & Model + Options Start Finish Documents
Tesa WS1081V3 + FARS 2025-03-16 specifications
La Crosse WS2355 2017-04-01 2025-03-16 specifications

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Current Sensor Corrections
Element AWS Correction Start Comment
Pressure Tesa WS1081V3 offset of 0.6 2025-03-16 height offset to derive MSLP
Rainfall Tesa WS1081V3 coefficient of 0.8 2025-06-17 revised coefficient
Temperature Tesa WS1081V3 no correction 2025-03-16 default
The sensor corrections are applied to the weather monitoring software. The MSLP height offset is also applied to the indoor console.

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Current Instrumentation
Description Make & Model Location Height Mode Role Start
Air Quality Sensor (PM2.5), electronic Ecowitt WH41 attached to Stevenson Screen post 1.0 Automatic Primary 2026-06-23
Anemometer/wind vane, electronic Fine Offset WS1081 attached to Stevenson Screen 1.9 Automatic Primary 2025-03-16
Barometer, aneroid Royal Mariner C622R indoors 1.1 Manual 2017-04-01
Barometer, electronic Fine Offset WS1081 integrated with indoor console 1.1 Automatic Primary 2025-03-16
Lightning Sensor, electronic Ecowitt WH57 Stevenson Screen 1.3 Automatic Primary 2026-06-15
Rain gauge, electronic tipping spoon Fine Offset WS1081 attached to Stevenson Screen 1.9 Automatic 2025-03-16
Rain gauge, standard 10 cm diameter Nylex RG1000 attached to Stevenson Screen 1.8 Manual Primary 2017-04-01
Thermo hygrograph, electronic Fine Offset WS1081 attached to Stevenson Screen 1.8 Automatic Primary 2025-03-16
Thermometer, digital maximum/minimum Sper Scientific 800121 Stevenson Screen 1.2 Manual 2025-05-06
Thermometer, mercury-in-glass (as dry bulb) Dobbie CBM6861 Stevenson Screen 1.2 Manual 2017-04-01
Thermometer, mercury-in-glass (as wet bulb) Dobbie CBM6861 Stevenson Screen 1.2 Manual 2017-04-01
All instrument heights are measured above the reference point.

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Decommissioned Instrumentation
Description Make & Model Start Finish Comment
Barometer, electronic La Crosse WS2355-11 2024-12-18 2025-03-16 retired from service
Barometer, electronic La Crosse WS2355-11 2017-04-01 2024-12-18 faulty console display
Rain gauge, electronic tipping bucket La Crosse WS2300-16 2017-04-01 2025-03-16 retired from service
Thermo hygrograph, electronic La Crosse WS2300-25 2017-04-01 2025-03-16 retired from service
Thermometer, alcohol-in-glass minimum Dobbie CBM6464 2017-04-01 2025-05-02 accidental breakage
Thermometer, mercury-in-glass maximum Dobbie CBM6463 2017-04-01 2020-12-26 accidental breakage

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Record of Weather Monitoring Software
Program & Version Start Finish
Weather Display 10.37S152 2025-03-16
WUHU 1.0.216.223 2017-04-01 2025-03-16
This table shows the current or last installed version of the software.

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Other Software
Program & Version Description
Corel PaintShop Pro X5 image editing
Filezilla 3.69.6 ad-hoc ftp upload to host server
Fling 5.0 ftp upload to host server
FreeFileSync 14.7 ftp download from BoM server
FWI Calc 11.4.0.114 fire danger ratings and indices
GraphWeather 2.0.321 weather graphics
IrfanView 4.72 graphic viewer
MS Excel 2010 data logging, analysis and reporting
Wget 1.21.4 api download from third party servers
WXTide32 4.7 daily tide predictions

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