Framingham MA Weather
42.3 N - 71.4 W
Updated: August 16 2022

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08/16/2022	For the past few weeks the fan on the Raspberry Pi case has been very noisy. Replaced with a new aluminum case with a fan, and quiet operation has returned.
06/07/2022	Replaced the lithium backup battery in the outdoor sensor module. The last battery was installed about 1.75 years ago. This battery was purchased about 2 years ago. I have been noticing in the early morning not too long before sunrise that there have been an increasing number dropouts in receiving data that last until about 2 hours after sunrise. WeeWX has been reporting a low transmitter battery for at least a couple of months. Checked the joint in the support pole, it is not corroded. The epoxy in the joint was soft and discolored, probably due to long term exposure to sunlight. Removed the epoxy and re-tightened the joint, looks OK now.
09/27/2020	Replaced the lithium backup battery in the outdoor sensor module. The last battery was installed about 2 years ago. I have been noticing in the early morning not too long before sunrise that there have been an increasing number dropouts in receiving data. Also noticed that the joint in the support pole is starting to corrode.
10/21/2018	Replaced the lithium backup battery in the outdoor sensor module. The last battery was installed a year ago. On cold nights for the past few weeks I noticed that there have been an increasing number dropouts in receiving data. The new battery fixed the problem. Also cleaned the solar cell.
10/22/2017	Replaced the lithium backup battery in the outdoor sensor module. The last battery was installed a little less than 1-1/2 years ago. On cold nights for the past several weeks I noticed that there have been dropouts in receiving data. Hopefully he new battery will fix the problem. Also cleaned the solar cell.
06/11/2017	Took instruments down and cleaned out the rain gauge which was blocked with oak tree droppings. This caused rain from last week to be measured short, and with the funnel not draining, small amounts were passing through and getting measured over the next few days. Also cleaned the screen for the other sensors, the ventilation shields, and the solar cell.
05/12/2016	Replaced the lithium backup battery in the outdoor sensor module. The last battery was installed about 2-1/2 years ago. On cold nights for the past several months I noticed that there have been dropouts in receiving data. The new battery should fix the problem.
02/01/2016 and 02/03/2016	For the second time since the ferrite cores were installed on the USB cable on 01/26/2013 and 11/26/2013, the Davis console USB port glitched. Disconnecting power to the console and a reboot corrected problem. Happened again on 02/03. Console was kind of close to wi-fi router, so moved it away to other side of room.
01/06/2016	It's time to change the battery in the outdoor sensor module. Last night I lost 4 hours of data. Checked the RX packets and during that time period very few data packets were recieved by the console. Data resumed after sunrise on solar power.
01/26/2015	Yesterday's snow storm was all heavy wet snow that stuck to the anemometer cups preventing it from spinning. This resulted in no wind data for over 24 hours.
11/26/2013	For the first time since the ferrite cores were installed on the USB cable on 01/26/2013, the Davis console USB port glitched. Reboot corrected problem.
11/04/2013	Replaced the lithium backup battery in the outdoor sensor module. The battery was installed over 3 years ago. Now that the nights are getting longer and it is getting colder I noticed that there have been dropouts in receiving data on cold nights. The new battery should fix the problem.
02/11/2013	The "Blizzard of 2013", Officially 31" of snow. Due to high winds there was alot of drifting and the snow was difficult to measure accurately. We were located in the jack-pot zone, most areas got 24 to 28 inches. This rivaled the "Blizzard of '78" in snowfall amounts. Click here for National Weather Service Snowfall totals.
10/30/2012	Hurricance "Sandy" had a major affect on us yesterday. Even though the storm center passed over 300 miles away from my location there were many wind gusts reported to be in the 60mph range in my area. The weather station didn't record gusts that high because my area is nearly surrounded by trees that are much taller than the height of the weather station sensors. Amazingly we did not loose power.
09/23/2012	Updated the computer hardware and software that is used to run wview. The new system has much more disk space and triple the amount of memory. Operating system upgraded to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and wview to version 5.20.2.
02/01/2011	Suddenly on 01/29 the wview software was unable to recieve the archive data from the station console. The problem was fixed on 02/01, so during that period of time data is missing for chart generation, however the current and high/low information was properly being recorded. The fix for the problem was to power down the console and remove the batteries for a while. The data logger interface was also removed and reseated. After power up all was fine. The most likely cause of the problem was that the data logger may have become loose.
01/12/2011	During some snow storms I noticed that the anemometer cups fill up with snow. I expect that when this happens the wind speed and gust readings will be lower than the actual value.
08/14/2010 12:00	Rebuilt the mounting pole so station is now 24' above ground. See the "About this site" page for more details.
07/09/2010 16:17	New weather station activated: Davis Vantage Vue. Mounted about 10' above deck (14' above ground), need a better location.
06/09/2010	The WS-1317 station was deactived and removed during outdoor construction. It will be replaced by a Davis Vantage Vue at a later date. Until then there will be a gap in my weather data.
06/04/2010	The wind sensor on the WS-1317 has become so unreliable with spike readings that it was removed.
10/16/2009	First trace of snow. Large wet flakes, non-accumulating, but did stick to cars and grass.
10/15/2009	First frost.
10/07/2009	The 'snow' word was used by the local TV weather forecasters for the first time this season.
07/07/2009	Strong thunderstorms with heavy rain and pea size hail. During the 15 minute period from 3:40 to 3:55PM, 0.9" of rain fell, half of which fell in the 5 minute period of 3:45 to 3:50PM.
06/01/2009 to   06/30/2009	It seems it was cloudy and raining nearly every day. The weather pattern was several days of cloudy rainy weather then maybe a day of sun and this repeated nearly the entire month.