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

Station Equipment

Weather Station: Davis Vantage Pro2 Wireless with 24hr FARS and data logger.

Lightning detection: Boltek StormTracker PCI

WeatherCam: Optiview cs-420 color camera in outside enclosure with Computar 3.5-10.5mm Auto Iris Lens
Pan tilt unit...350º pan / tilt +/- 60º....Synetlink VA-302 Pan Tilt Control unit

Software: Ambient Weather VWS v14.00 p16
Astrogenic NexStorm v1.51.0.2402/ WASP2 client / StrikeStar network client
VWSaprs v1.9.5.0
ImageSalsa v1.9.14
MovieSalsa v1.0.13
WeatherFlash

Weather Computer: AMD Sempron Processor 2800+ @ 1.99Ghz CPU
Maxtor 40GB Hard Drive
1GB DDR RAM

Operating System: Windows XP Professional SP2

Credits

First I would like to thank my family, for their help (and patience) while developing this site. I would especially like to thank my wife for her excellent input on site design and layout. In addition her help while debugging the site proved to be invaluable! Also, my oldest son who is responsible for 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. In addition, thanks go out to Ken at Capitola Weather Net for allowing the use of his weather observation table layout.

We would also like to thank 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. Finally, Ken at Saratoga Weather thank you for providing some of best php weather scripts available!