Veteran Web Cam
Copyright © 1998-2006
Veteran, Queensland, Australia
Latitude S26º 7'37'' Longitude E152º 42'8" Elevation: 157 Metres
About the Cameras: The top camera is facing 192° SSW. It is on-line 24 hrs every day and uploads
every two minutes, archives for the time-lapse are uploaded every 10 minutes. Gympie is located at the centre of the picture,
just behind the tree line before the ranges, a distance of approximately 7 km.
Just to the right of centre, there
is a gap in the trees, this is the "Gympie
Wine Glass" (Water Tower).
The mountains in the background are the
foothills of the Great Dividing Range. During the Summer months Cumulonimbus Cells build up over these mountains and head for the Eastern seaboard (South Pacific Ocean) which is approximately
40 km to the East of Gympie. ( Left of the Picture).
The bottom camera is fitted with a 12X50mm tele-photo lens and is currently overlooking the Veteran Hall and Fire Shed, a distance of 2 km away. This camera is only experimental and the colour quality is poor, I am
in the process of obtaining a Pan Tilt Zoom camera with which the viewer can control via the internet, the camera that I have in mind can Zoom in 44 times.
About the 'Current Prediction' The weather station uses a number of given parameters and Boolean equations to predict the foreseeable weather trend, for instance, if it is raining very heavy and the wind gusts exceed a given strength then it assumes that a
thunderstorm is currently being experienced on the site. On the other hand, if the barometric pressure is dropping rapidly, the dew point is rising and the temperature is also rising in relation to the height of the cloud base, the prediction will be for a thunderstorm to develop. As the rates of change occur, it is sometimes difficult to know what the prediction is going to
be, the best way is to look at the long term trend given by the icons in the web cam pictures using the 6 hour archives. By doing this you will get a reasonably accurate prediction of what kind of weather lies ahead for the
region. Obviously the picture taken by the camera is an indication of the current climate as well.
ZOOM - IN on this Picture... click on the image
ZOOM - IN on this Picture... click on the image
Rainfall:
Today
0.00 mm Current
rate: 0.00 mm/hr
Temperature: 13.9
°C Current
rate: -0.5 °C/hr
Barometer: 1070
mb Current
rate: 0.0 mb/hr
Cloud Base:
Ft Density Alt:
Ft
Wind: SE
@ 0 km
or
knots Beaufort scale:
Calm Dew
Point: 13.1 °C
Current
rate: -0.1 °C/hr
Sunrise: 6:18 Sunset: 17:10 Moon Phase: Day 9
Station Prediction: Clear