About Latham Weather
Constantly under construction
Summary
This website displays weather information from the suburb of Latham in the Australian Capital Territory. The weather station in use is a Davis Vantage Pro2, and these pages are updated every 5 minutes. The meteorological day used at this station ends at midnight.
The weather graphs are generated automatically by Cumulus MX v4.5.2 (4105)
| Almanac | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dawn: | 05:49 | Sunrise: | 06:15 | Moonrise: | 05:21 |  |
| Dusk: | 19:49 | Sunset: | 19:23 | Moonset: | 18:16 | |
| Daylight: | 14:00 | Day length: | 13:08 | Moon Phase: | Waning Crescent | |
| Latitude: | S 35° 13' 00" | Longitude: | E 149° 01' 22" | Elevation: | 577 m | |
Credits
- The CSS and Javascript framework for the website is based on Twitter Bootstrap 5
- The fern image above was taken by my Flickr alterego CJHudson.
- Raspberry Pi is a trademark of the Raspberry Pi Foundation
- Scripts used on the Gauges page are from Mark Crossley - version 2.5.15
- The gauges are from Gerrit Grunwald's SteelSeries JavaScript library
- The Wind Rose is from RGraph
- Cookies are used to store your Units of Measurement and gauge preferences.
Work Underway
- Changes to cater for new features available with CumulusMX 4
Future Plans
- Am considering changing the theme of the page.
- Website hosting to move to AWS
- Data currently stored locally to move to AWS SQL instance
Previous Changes
August 2025
- Upgrade to CumulusMX v4.5.2
- Removal of jQuery dependency
- Tweaks to Chart pages and webcam page
- Upgrade to Bootstrap 5.3.7
- Add update warning to pages
- Add forecast icon
July 2025
- Upgrade to CumulusMX v4.3.3
- Updates to webcam page
October 2024
- Upgrade to CumulusMX v4.2.1
- Add a number of new values to historical pages
September 2024
- Upgrade to CumulusMX v4.1.3
- Upgrade to new Raspberry Pi 5 running Debian bookworm
August 2024
- Upgrade to Bootstrap 5.3.3 and jQuery 3.7.1
April 2024
- Addition of Weather Cam
July 2023
- Upgrade to Bootstrap 5.3.1
April 2023
- Upgrade to CumulusMX v3.24.2
February 2023
- Upgrade to CumulusMX v3.23.1
January 2023
- Upgrade to CumulusMX v3.23.0
- Upgrade to Bootstrap 5.2.3
October 2022
- Upgrade to CumulusMX v3.22.2
July 2022
- Upgrade to CumulusMX v3.19.3
- Upgrade to FontAwesome 6.1.2
June 2022
- Upgrade to CumulusMX v3.17.0
- Upgrade to CumulusMX v3.12.0
May 2022
- Addition of new historic trends charts
- Upgrade to CumulusMX v3.9.6
- Upgrade Raspberry Pi to Raspbian Bullseye release - needed Mono v5.0 so made the jump from Stretch to Bullseye
- Upgrade to CumulusMX v3.7.0
- Upgrade to CumulusMX v3.5.1
Jan 2022
- Upgrade to Bootstrap 5
Jan 2018 -> onwards
- Code now maintained on GitHub
Jan 2018
- Upgrade to Bootstrap 4 and change to dark theme.
Jan 2017
- Hosting moved from iiNet to GoDaddy.
Dec 2016
- Change of weather station to a Davis Vantage Pro2 combined with a move to a Raspberry Pi 3 with inbuilt wireless
Apr 2016
- With the successful move to the Raspberry Pi and CumulusMX, I have retired the VWS software.
Mar 2016
- Change of theme to the blue theme.
- Addition of FontAwesome icons.
- Addition of random weather quotes to each page.
Feb 2016
- Switched to using Cumulus as primary source of Latham Weather website
Oct 2015
- Moved hosting from internode.on.net to iinet.net.au
- Addition of this About page
May 2015
- Started running Cumulus v1.9 software alongside VWS
Mar 2015
- Converted website to using Twitter Bootstrap with the dark theme.
Jun 2009 - Mar 2015
- ... More detail to be added here ...
Jun 2009
- Version 1 of Latham Weather uploaded to the web
- Hosted on internode.on.net
Dec 2006
- Oregon Scientific WMR100 Weather Station setup
- Web presence confined to Weather Underground uploads