About Us

We live at the top of Rhode Island in the city of Woonsocket. Our property is straddling the Massachusetts border. We have lived here for over 10 years. I've been messing around with web publishing for about 6 years, mostly just hobby stuff. I got into weather measurement in mid 2008. I also have a web site devoted to our birds that live and feed in the backyard. I have cameras set up to capture their everyday life. You can see that on our bird website. This spring I will try my hand at beekeeping. You can be sure that I will add another website to chronicle that. Stay tuned!

When I'm not at home doing this, I spend my time as a Veterans' Service Officer (VSO) for the towns of Douglas, Northbridge, Sutton and Uxbridge Massachusetts. My website for my office.

About This Station

The station is powered by a Oregon Scientic WMR698 weather station. The data is collected every few seconds and the site is updated every 5 seconds. This site and its data is collected using Weather Display Software. The station is comprised of an anemometer, a rain gauge and a thermo-hydro sensor situated in optimal positions for highest accuracy possible. The station is located in an area of Woonsocket, known as the North End. In fact, the sensors are located precisely atop the border of Blackstone, MA and Woonsocket, RI.

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About Woonsocket

The first inhabitants of what is today the city of Woonsocket were eastland woodland Indians - mainly Nipmucs, Wampanoaags and Narragansetts. It was Richard Arnold, Sr., an associate of Roger Williams, who showed the first European interest in the area. He laid claims to land in the late 1660's on which the family built a sawmill powered by the Blackstone River below the Woonsocket Falls in the area now known as Market Square.

Richard Aronld's sister, Elizabeth Comstock, and his sons Richard Jr. and John were the first family members to settle in the area. Elizabeth Comstock and Richard Jr. settled in the Union Village area of what is now North Smithfield. Union Village, a way stop for travelers on the way to Boston, became a commercial center and the hub of the entire area up till the 1820's. John Arnold settled in the Providence Street area of Woonsocket and become a successful farmer and miller. His house still stands on Providence Street.

Unfortunately, little survives of eighteenth century Woonsocket. A basic highway system including Great Road and Mendon Road, millstones, cemeteries and a few houses are all that remain of Woonsocket's preindustrial heritage. Read more... ©1999-2007 Erik Eckilson

About This Website

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Special thanks go to Kevin Reed at TNET Weather for his work on the original Carterlake templates, and his design for the common website PHP management.
Special thanks to Mike Challis of Long Beach WA for his wind-rose generator, Theme Switcher and CSS styling help with these templates and to Rainer Finkeldeh of Bashewa.com for all his help with the cloud-base graphics.
Special thanks go to Ken True of Saratoga-Weather.org for the AJAX conditions display, dashboard and integration of the TNET Weather common PHP site design for this site.

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