Station Information
Latitude: 43° 59' 35" N (deg min sec), 43.9930° (decimal), 4359.58N (LORAN)
Longitude: 66° 8' 49" W (deg min sec), -66.1468° (decimal), 06608.81W (LORAN)
Elevation: 16 metres (52 feet) -- validated against 12 metres (41 feet) from NED 1 arc-second: Contiguous United States Mexico and Portions of Canada
Location: Port Maitland, CA
Weather station Manager/Operator: Bill Curry
Station type/software: Davis Vantage Pro 2 and is using a Davis Weather Link Live to report to CWOP, WU, WOW, Cape Breton Mesonet and to Davis Cloud
The station runs on an Apple Mac Studio computer running Monetery (macOS 12.4)The entire station is backed up by a Maximum Instruments analog weather station, and a manual CoCoRaHS rain and snow collector with a snow board.
This station provides live weather feeds and information to:
The Citizen Weather Observer Program (CWOP), Weather Underground, Environment Canada, The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminsitration (NOAA), The Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network, The Weather Network,
and over 800 organizations that monitor the servers of the NOAA findU service which is where the live feeds for this station are stored.
A partial list of these organizations includes:
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
NWS Weather Forecast Offices
National Center for Environmental Prediction
National Ocean Service
National Transportation Safety Board
National Center for Atmospheric Research
Denver Urban Drainage and Flood Control District
Colorado Avalanche Information Center
Kennedy Space Center
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
MIT Lincoln Laboratories
University of Utah
Penn State University
Mississippi State University
University of Alaska
University of North Dakota
Hampton University
Texas A&M University
University of Hawaii
Florida State University
This station has been running since January 2012 and online since January 2013
Records for weather at Coastal Port Maitland weather station:
Coastal Port Maitland, Nova Scotia, Canada
Highest recorded temperature: 31.1 °C on Aug 21, 2015
Lowest recorded temperature: -16.1 °C on Feb 24, 2015
Total recorded temperature range: 47.1 °C
Highest recorded pressure: 30.96 inHg on Nov 26, 2015
Lowest recorded pressure: 28.20 inHg on Jan 4, 2018
Total recorded pressure range: 2.76 inHg
Highest recorded wind speed: 70.0 Knots on July 5 2014
Wettest day on record: Aug 29, 2019 with 4.90 in of rain
