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About Us
Pakenham Weather provides weather information, real-time observations and forecasts, for the community of Pakenham and surrounding suburbs by a qualified meteorologist. Pakenham Weather was established in January 2015 to assist greater Pakenham residents in day to day planning and events by providing valuable weather information.
| About the Weather Station |
| Pakenham Weather observations are powered by an Davis Instruments Vantage Pro 2 professional weather station. The temperature and humidity sensor is mounted within a passive radiation shield at a height of 2.2m above ground level (AGL). Wind is measured by an anemometer (wind speed) and wind vane (wind direction) mounted above the roof line with an elevation of approximately 10 metres AGL and is reasonably exposed in most directions but tends to under-report wind speeds from the northwest to northeast due to higher topography situated to the north. Rainfall is recorded via a tipping bucket rain gauge with a resolution of 0.2mm per bucket tip and is mounted to the side of a pergola at a height of 2.2m AGL with good exposure from all directions.
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| Weather Station Location |
The Personal Weather Station is situated 2.1 km northeast of the Pakenham town centre:
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| Latitude: |
38.0618°S |
| Longitude: |
145.4971°E |
| Elevation: |
55m |
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| About Pakenham |
| Pakenham is a satellite city of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 56 km (35 mi) south-east from Melbourne's central business district. Pakenham is a major growth area and is one of the fastest growing suburbs in Victoria with a population of approximately 48,000 as of February 2015. |
| Our Setup |
| The Davis Instruments Vantage Pro 2 professional weather station is connected to a dedicated laptop running Sandysoft's Cumulus weather station software that feeds real-time weather data dynamically into this website, while uploading real-time data to various weather networks and automatically formatting and posting weather information to Twitter. |
| Pakenham Weather on Social Media |
Pakenham Weather has a social media presence on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Weather information is automatically posted to Twitter every hour on the hour which is then automatically posted to Facebook. Forecasts, warnings and alerts are also posted to predominantly the Facebook page but it must be stressed that not all warnings and alerts can be conveyed due to the volunteer nature of the service.
For information on the formatting of, and how to interpret, the weather information feed on Facebook and Twitter, please see our Weather Information Feed Information.
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| Weather Networks |
| Pakenham Weather uploads real-time weather information to the following weather networks. Please click on the following links to be redirected to Pakenham Weather's weather station page on the corresponding weather network's website. |
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| Website Information |
| The Pakenham Weather website has been online since August 2015 and is a modified version of the Weather Blues Template by Weather by You!, the template design of which is based on Metamorphozis. The BOM 7 day forecast meteogram was made possible with the generous help of OzForecast. |
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