Neon Desert Weather is a private weather station located at the eastern end of the Las Vegas Valley in southern Nevada.

Location: Lat: 36.1128120
Long: -115.0542831

Altitude: 1689.00 feet

Time Zone: Pacific

Record keeping started in June of 1999 with the installation of a Davis Weather Monitor II

The Neon Desert Weather Webpage started November 19,2004

Equipment/Software Summary

Weather Station: Davis Vantage Pro2 Wireless with 24hr FARS and data logger.
ISS mounted ~6ft above ground.
Anemometer and Wind Vane mounted ~30ft above ground.
Lightning detection equipment: Boltek StormTracker PCI with antenna mounted in an external PVC enclosure
~20 feet above ground level.
WeatherCam: Optiview cs-420 color camera in outside enclosure with Computar 3.5-10.5mm Auto Iris Lens
Manually controlled Pan tilt unit...350º pan / tilt +/- 60º....Synetlink VA-302 Pan Tilt Control unit

Software

Ambient Weather VWS v14.00 p100
Astrogenic NexStorm v1.7.0.2612/ WASP2 client / StrikeStar network client
VWSaprs v1.9.6.0
ImageSalsa v1.9.0.14
MovieSalsa v1.0.0.14
WeatherLink v5.9.0
WeatherFlash

Computer Hardware and Operating System

Homebuilt AMD Athlon 64 X2 4000+ @ 2.10 GHz 2GB DDR2 RAM
Primary Drive Western Digital 120 GB PATA
Secondary Drive Digital 250 GB PATA
Microsoft Windows Version 7 32bit

Credits

I would like to thank my family, for their help (and patience) while developing this site. My oldest son designed the site banner graphics and Southwestern Weather Network logo! Check out his site at: www.techonedge.com

The original Website design concept is based on the Mother Earth free template from DesignsByDarren. It has since been modified and includes a CSS Express Drop-Down Menu by projectseven.com.

Additional thanks go out to Ken at Capitola Weather Net for allowing the use of his weather observation table layout. Matt at Weather Bus.com for all his efforts and hard work in providing the ajax scripts that are used for the "live update" portions of the site, Lightning graphic scripts from CarterLake.org and Ken at Saratoga Weather for providing some of best php weather scripts available!