Columbia Weather Systems

Custom WeatherMaster Software shows runway orientation inside the Control Tower. A handful of companies have been customers of Columbia Weather Systems since the very beginning. We’d like to highlight one of those with a recent communication from Kelvin Price of C.W. Price & Company in South Africa: Wow — what a milestone for Columbia Weather Systems of 25 years, but we go beyond that when CWS was still under the Hinds brand name. If memory serves me right, C.W. Price & Company first started working with Hinds somewhere in the mid to late 1980s. Generational Similar to CWS we are now a 3rd generation company started by my grandfather in 1949. C.W. Price initially supplied many Capricorn II units mainly into forestry, small airports, and the general industry. (C.W. Price was also one of the first dealers to be able to repair Capricorn weather stations.) We recently managed our first installation of a Columbia MicroServer system at an International Airport. Kruger Mpumala...

Complete with a Magellan MX500™ Vehicle Mount Weather Station and panel-mount Weather Display, the Pasadena Police department is well equipped for emergency situations with their impressive new mobile command center built by LDV. The Magellan MX all-in-one sensor module incorporates compass and GPS for critical weather monitoring with automatic wind direction alignment and compensated wind speed. Additional features include ultrasonic wind sensors, temperature, barometric pressure and humidity. Alternate sensors include rainfall and solar radiation. For a closer look at the rig, watch LDV’s video walkthrough by tapping here . If you're curious to learn more about the Magellan or any of our other weather station lines, check out our website . Photo courtesy of LDV Inc.

In our latest video, Alex Pulido gives an overview of how the Weather MicroServer works. With the ability to interface to any of our weather station models, this powerful communication device lets you access real-time met data from anywhere in the world. The Weather MicroServer is a data logger and powerful communication device compatible with all of our weather stations. It includes a web browser user interface that allows for configuration and displays the current weather readings. The Main Dashboard displays real-time data for the main meteorological parameters, including a wind direction dial with a 30-second standard deviation.  The Auxiliary Screen shows real-time data for additional sensors if connected such as solar radiation and visibility, as well as calculated parameters.  The Trend Screen shows a graph of one or two selected parameters for the current day.  The Latest Measurements tab displays real-time values of all available parameters. It provides Int...