Columbia Weather Systems

Swinerton Renewable Energy has selected weather stations from Columbia Weather Systems to provide meteorological data to their proprietary SCADA system at solar project sites. The construction company offers turn-key solar power solutions for utility-scale and distributed generation projects. Joe Brotherton, manager of the technical services team, reports that Swinerton’s operations and maintenance management offers performance guarantees based on site analysis. Monitoring weather conditions is vital to optimizing performance. Swinerton’s weather stations include the Orion sensor module plus a panel temperature sensor and two solar radiation sensors – one at plane of array and the other on a tracker. The system is connected through the Weather MicroServer . “We like the price point, always get a response, and it integrates easily into our SCADA system,” Brotherton says. On a recent Swinerton project, Columbia Weather integrated the newly released Hukseflux SR20 solar sensor. SR2...

Columbia Weather Systems offers a new universal mounting adapter to attach weather sensors to existing towers or alternate masts, even those with multiple instruments. Can be used vertically or horizontally. Aluminum construction. Includes three clamps for mast of up to 3” diameter. Shown below with the new Pulsar 600 Weather Station. Click for Weather Station Mounting Options

The new Pulsar™ Weather Station from Columbia Weather Systems is a critical component in the latest Mobile Weather Lab by Integrated Microwave Technologies (IMT), an industry leader in advanced digital microwave video systems. IMT will be showcasing their latest broadcast vehicle technology at the NABShow National Association of Broadcasters event in April. The Mobile Weather Lab vehicle is a functional live broadcasting truck complete with video cameras, large monitor, wireless broadband Internet and digital microwave connectivity. The weather station system includes a Weather Display console from Columbia Weather. The weather lab uses the Pulsar 600 Weather Station with Doppler radar precipitation, temperature, humidity, pressure, and ultrasonic wind measurements. The new Pulsar line of weather stations offers the ease of all-in-one sensor module with various meteorological parameters to choose from. All configurations include an electronic compass for automatic orientation of ...

Weather Master™ Software, for use with any weather station from Columbia Weather Systems, can be translated into almost any language for a small one-time engineering charge. The three main display screens were recently published in German for a Swiss customer. For more information, click: Weather Master Software

This recent article from Fire Apparatus magazine describes one of our key public safety markets: "Special Operations Command (SOC) vehicles have become nerve centers at complex fire scenes and natural disaster calls, serving to link all related communications, direct operations, function as rehab centers, and even issue weather reports." Click here to read the rest of the article. Click here for information on Mobile Weather Stations.

Thanks to Gabi Cohen of Sigmatek for sending this photo of the CWS Weather Display mounted in the FAA Emergency Communications Vehicle on display at the Air Traffic Control Association Expo last fall. An OEM customer, Sigmatek incorporates Orion Weather Stations into their mobile air traffic control towers. Click here for information on our Weather Display.

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We are pleased to welcome Vincent Iubatti as our new Technical Support Technician. A recent graduate of Portland Community College’s Electronic Engineering Technology program, Vincent also has a bachelor’s degree in television and video production from Wilmington University in Delaware. Vincent was selected because of his knowledge and experience with electronics and technology, as well as his written and verbal communication skills. Vincent’s primary responsibilities will be to provide technical support to customers, and will also include product development, documentation and testing. We have also officially added two members to our manufacturing team -- Julius, who has been working with us a as a temp for several months, and Grace, who was a long-time employee of our parent company, Hinds Instruments.

We are pleased to be co-sponsors of the upcoming Climate Change Forum at Marylhurst University near Portland on October 6. Additional sponsors include the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission and the Oregon Chapter of the American Meteorological Society . Keynote speaker is Anthony Strawa, a microphysicist at NASA's Ames Research Center in California's Silicon Valley. Presenters will include Washington state climatologist Nicholas Bond and Andy Harris of the Oregon Health & Science University Medical School. Other speakers from Oregon State University will address topics ranging from climate change models to resiliency needed in coastal communities. "We're bringing together some wonderful, engaging experts who come at climate change from unique perspectives," says Greg Dardis, interim chair of Marylhurst's Department of Science & Mathematics. "Our goal is to create a day that gets many more of us thinking more broadly about the impacts...