About CrabMeadow-Weather.org
This website was created as a public service for residents of Northport, New York. This weather station is privately
owned and operated, is not affiliated with the Villiage of Northport or any other formal agency,
and should not be considered an officially recognized station for weather reporting.
Never base important decisions on this or any weather information obtained from the Internet.
About Northport, NY, USA
Northport is a quaint, thriving, waterfront village settled in the early 1600s. The town is located in Suffolk County, part of the famous "Gold Coast" on Long Island´s North Shore. Our borders lie between Huntington and Smithtown along Route 25A (also known as Fort Salonga Road), just east of Centerport. Today, the name "Crab Meadow" unofficially refers to an area of Northport immediately northeast of the village proper, containing a residential neighborhood, salt marsh, Crab Meadow Town Beach, and Crab Meadow Golf Course
The first inhabitants of Northport were peaceful Indians known as the Matinecocks, whose camp perched on a lakeshore site is now occupied by the Long Island Power Authority (LIPA). In 1650 the first white men came to the territory from New Amsterdam and reported their discovery to the Dutch government at The Hague. The report described good fishing, fine meadowlands and mostly level ground suitable for farms and cattle. Six years later, this area, which would be called Great Cow Harbor, was purchased from Chief Asharoken by three Englishmen for seven quarts of liquor, two coats, four shirts and eleven ounces of powder. Relations between the settlers and the Indians were friendly, and the small colony flourished with farming and shell-fishing.
Northport References
- Wikipedia® entry for Villiage of Northport, NY, USA
- Northport Chamber of Commerce
- Northport Historical Society
- ePodunk™ entry for Crab Meadow, Northport, NY, USA
- ePodunk™ entry for Northport, NY, USA
Station Details
The station is driven by a Davis Instruments Wireless Vantage Pro2™ Plus weather station. Instrument data is collected aproximately every 2.5 seconds using Weather Display Software, which also:
- Permanently records readings once every 60 seconds
- Updates this site completely every 10 minutes
- Updates "real-time" data on this site every 9 seconds
The station is comprised of an anemometer, rain gauge, thermo-hydro sensor, solar radiation sensor, and UV sensor situated in optimal positions for highest accuracy possible.
Data Publication
Data collected from this station is additionally provided to the following services:
- Citizen Weather Observer Program (Station DW1086), in turn feeding data to:
- MADIS: Meteorological Assimilation Data Ingest System (Station D1086)
- MESONET (Station D1086)
- National Weather Service (Station D1086)
- Weather Underground (Station KNYNORTH16)
- Northeastern Weather Network
- AWEKAS Automatic Weather Map System (Station Northport, NY [ID 4482])
- PWS Weather(Station DW1086)
- WeatherForYou (Station DW1086)
- Wetter-Board
Station History
| 9 Oct 2008 | • UV Sensor Replaced |
| 22 Sep 2008 | • UV Sensor apparently failed completely though readings had been suspect recently |
| 6 Aug 2008 | • Station Installed |
Credits
This site is based on and includes ideas, concepts, and works from many talented individuals:
- Template design, functionality, and implementation
- Kevin Reed of TNET Weather
- CarterLake.org
- Ken True of Saratoga-Weather.org.
- Mike Challis of Long Beach WA
- Designs by Haran
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