Ratooragh Weather Systems is an offspring of https://choughs.org our main website. On this site you will find detail about my Weather Systems, Home/Energy Projects, some Computer Ramblings and Infra-Red Photography.
My Weather Satellite Reception has been down since 2026-01-12 due to a server motherboard failure. I am awaiting a new motherboard....
My Campbell Scientific Data Logger stopped working 2023-11-09 05:05:00 It is back up and running since 2024-01-11
2021-06-01 The Wind Turbine Stator has disintegrated.
I have somewhat reluctantly decided to decommission it.
For Storm Francis in 2020, see here
Turbine Blade Performance Compared is here
Recent Depressing stuff on Climate Change
I have now added historic data for the Photovoltaic System. For the full picture visit the PV Stats Page
With the Energy Crisis I have created up to date graphs
Having used Drupal through versions 6, 7 and 8 I thought I had got Drupal 8 cracked so to speak! I had created fancy scripts to help with updating using Composer, but trying to keep the Content synced between Local, Dev and Production Sites proved impossible.
I am now using Backdrop CMS and fingers crossed I think it is the way to go. Time will tell.
2021-05-26 The Wind Turbine Stator has pretty much disintegrated. This is due to damp getting at the coils and corroding them.
I have decided that enough is enough, and I am not going to repair this, but hope to be able to pass it on to a good home.
