Information About The Station

Our Location

Description

Country : Manitowaning Bay, Manitoulin Island, Northern Ontario, Canada

This weather station is located about six kilometres north of Manitowaning which is approximately 300 kilometres, as the crow flies, north-northwest (NNW) of Toronto. Manitowaning became the first non-native settlement on Manitoulin Island as a result of the two Manitoulin Treaties of 1836 and 1862.

Our Position

Coordinates

longitude : W 81° 50' 15"
latitude : N 45° 47' 07"

Location

Country : Canada
Province : Ontario
City : Manitowaning

See the Google map to the left to locate Manitowaning.

Weather installation

Location

The station wind sensors are mounted on the shore of Manitowaning Bay at the top of a 10 metre pole supported by guy wires. The rain and other sensors are mounted on the same mast at 1.5 metres above the ground ( 178 m above sea level). The installation is free of obstructions on the north, east and south sides (water and stone covered beach); there are trees on the west side about 15 metres from the station.

Description

Hardware : wireless outdoor sensors.

Anenometer, Thermometer, Hygrometer, Sunlight, UV Radiation and Rain Gauge.

Weather station :

Description

Station : Davis Vantage Pro2 Plus
Computer : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P8600 @ 2.40GHz
  Windows 7 x64 Service Pack 1 build 7601

Weather website :

Equipment

Online since : 08 January 2012
Weather template : Weather by You!
Template design : Metamorphozis
Weather engine : Cumulus v1.9.3 (1054)

Weather networks

Manitoulin WX is also available on the following weather networks :
Personnal Weather Stations Weather Underground Citizen Weather Observer Program Automatic Packet Reporting System WeatherBug