A new Citizen Weather Observer Program (CWOP) weather station has been installed on Eagle Spring Lake.  This weather station is calibrated to Nation Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) standards and is sending out data to several locations and has been given the designation CW8077.

Data transmissions occur approximately every five minutes and go to multiple locations.  The first data sets are transmitted to the CWOP system and from that point are displayed on the internet and forwarded to the Meteorological Assimilation Data Ingest System (MADIS) where they can be viewed by the National Weather Service and other weather users.  The easiest way to view this data is to use the Google Search page and enter the term "CW8077" (without quotation marks) and locate the CWOP data site.  Open the site from the Google search options and you will see a page of data directly from the weather observation site.  The page will display data including: current temperature/dew points, wind speed and direction, rainfall rates and amounts, wind distribution for the last 48 hours, and the National Weather Service radar with the CWOP recording site indicated on the radar display (find section "Data Status" and click on "Findu" and scroll down for radar display).

Data transmissions will also be made to the Weather Underground.  To view the same data, but from a different venue, go to www.weatherunderground.com.  Enter the zip code in the box provided for Mukwonago (53149) or Eagle (53119) and hit enter.  The weather will be displayed including observations from Eagle Spring Lake.  For more detailed information from this weather station, select "Personal Weather Stations" (which is underneath the radar image on the page).  The first entry should be Eagle Springs Lake, Mukwonago, WI.  Click on this entry and you will be able to view the weather data submitted for the day in approximately 5 minute increments.

However, there are still a few bugs in the system.  Data transmissions are being sent out via a DSL link on the Century Tel system.  Centel has been having a number of problems with a Marconi card in their switching system that has made DSL connectivity an on and off proposition.  The problem is being worked on with Centel and they hope to have a solution shortly.

Future expansion of the data collection network will include water temperatures which will help study the lake environment.