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			Site News Please send your comments. 4.16.05 The PancakeCam on the Go! Try  PancakeCam on the Go. See live snapshots and control the PancakeCam from your cellular phone--anywhere you have Internet. Try it today! Weather Station On Friday we ordered a Davis Instruments Vantage Pro2 Plus wireless weather station. Sometime next week we'll be installing the station up on the roof next to PancakeCam. The station will allow us to add real-time weather conditions to the site. Here's a few examples of other sites here and here that  use Davis software. We hope to have the station up and running by Saturday, April 23. A page devoted to the weather will be added also. A preset for the PancakeCam will be added for the weather station. 4.22.05 Weather Station installed The Davis Vantage Pro2 Plus has been installed up on the roof next to the PancakeCam.  The package is awesome and was very easy to set up and configure. We'll be posting a page devoted to the station, output from the station and some photos.  For right now you can check out the current local conditions here and a history here. Use your back button to return here. We're looking into a flash based real-time weather logger to display the weather. 4.28.05 Flash Weather Software installed You can see up to the second weather by clicking here. The flash application works quite well and updates the instrument package every 2 - 5 seconds. You can check your update rate by looking at the clock in the middle of the instruments. Each time the digits change the flash app has been hit with new data from the weather station. 5.3.05 Camera and Weather Station Reinstalled After the initial install of the camera, we were concerned about the amount of image shake during windy days.  While image shake has been reduced, it is still there after the second install. We've also moved the weather station so you can see it from the PancakeCam. We finally had some rain the other day (over 1 inch in 24 hrs) and it was nice to see the station register some rain data. We continue to be impressed with the Davis weather station. We switched from the Davis software to Virtual Weather Station (VWS) available from Ambient. The VWS Internet package is well thought out and a step or two ahead of the Davis product. The biggest difference being in the graphics that are far superior to the Davis output.  VWS also works in unison with WeatherFlash quite nicely. 5.7.05 Weather Home page goes live The Weather Home page goes live today and we're pretty pleased with it. The page contains a very comprehensive list of links and live NWS Radar images that link to the NWS. We're still building the page but its pretty good already. You'll notice that the connection time on the PancakeCam is now 10 minutes instead of 2. This allows you to monitor the camera and weather on the same page. Give the page a look here.