Columbia Weather Systems

Throwback Thursday – Circa 1990 meteorologist George Miller reached out to Hinds Instruments to co-sponsor this Northwest Winter Weather brochure with the local National Weather Service. Desktop publishing was a relatively new technology. George provided the content. We did the layout and printing with an ad on the back of the brochure. After that, George periodically wrote “Weather Watching” articles for our ReCap newsletter. When he was teaching at Marylhurst University he reached out to us (Columbia Weather Systems by then) to sponsor their Climate Change Forum, which we were glad to do. Tuesday evening we had the pleasure of George presenting at the monthly meeting of the Oregon Chapter of the American Meteorological Society . George served as president of the Oregon AMS for a number of years – he and his wife hosting the summer picnic in their backyard. Tuesday George and his wife were presented with a lifetime membership in the chapter – way overdue! We are grateful fo

WeatherMaster 5.0™ is a major release, updating the CWS proprietary weather monitoring software to standardize to the new design of the Weather Display and Weather Server . HTML-based display screens make it easy for us to add graphical features and customize screens including wind roses, trend graphs, and logos for customer branding. New Daily Statistics screen integrates Max/Min and other statistics for a more complete data snapshot. New Latest Measurements screen reveals all available parameters, including specialized calculated parameters such as Wet Air Density. The new platform will make it easier to add features in the future for general development and specific user requirements. Better synchronization with the Weather MicroServer provides a unified user experience. Current WeatherMaster customers contact us for a free upgrade.  Once your customer status is verified, we will send you an email with a link and instructions to download the new version.

This photo of an installed Capricorn FLX™ Weather Station (a particularly complicated foreign sale) came with a message from a lead engineer at Galaxy Investments: “Thanks for your ever-supportive responses.” At Columbia Weather Systems, we pride ourselves on personal customer support and responsiveness. It’s always nice to hear when our efforts are appreciated! For more details on the Capricorn FLX, visit our website .

Recent feedback from an industrial customer: “So far the Orion 420 is a big hit. Operators are using the barometric pressure, wind direction, and temp to predict when the big deer bucks will be moving. The analog interface to our controls system worked out very well. You guys did a good job putting it all together for an easy ‘top of the buildings’ install.”   —Engineering Consultant, Kinston, NC Inset: Screen shot of MicroServer Realtime Display For more information: Orion 420™ Weather Station

Thanks to our customers, vendors, friends, family and all our stakeholders for making 2018 a success! Wrapping up year end, we realize we shipped weather stations all across the country and around the globe. We wish you all a happy and prosperous 2019!