Washington State University HomeWSU AdmissionsWSU CampusesWSU HomeWSU Search Tools*
edge graphic
WSU Public Agricultural Weather System

Reports / Main Page

  • 2006-03-30 14:05:00 Sunnyside and Outlook are being upgraded today and may experience communication and data issues

  • 2005-04-20 We had a power supply failure on the server at 3am today. Should be back to normal within an hour.

  • 2005-04-18 The fireblight model has been added back to the system. It needs to be checked for correctness. It will show current heat units based on the previous 96 hours AVAILABLE. Please make sure that the station is up-to-date if you want an accurate estimate.

  • 2004-05-03 The fireblight model has been removed from PAWS at the request of Tim Smith. Please see http://www.ncw.wsu.edu/fbalert.htm for more information.

  • 2004-04-07 We are having problems with data collection, should be fixed soon.

  • 3/15/2004 Updated normals report.

  • 10/16/2003 We are having some radio telemetry problems with a major repeater. This is causing many of the stations to lag behind. We are working to solve the problem.

  • 07/10/2003 The Ellensburg station has been retired. The Boylston mtn repeater has also been removed.

  • 05/13/2003 Oops, we were still on daylight savings time after 4/6. Should be fixed now.

  • 05/05/2003 Maintenance is complete.

  • 05/05/2003 We will be taking down the system for hardware maintenance tonight.

  • 05/05/2003 A broken water system caused false precip on the Paterson station on 05/04/2003.

  • 04/22/2003 Fixed fireblight model. It was printing the wrong dates.

  • 04/12/2003 Power will be down from 9-11 am this morning. Expect downtime.

  • 04/09/2003 PAWS switched to daylight savings time on the morning of the 6th. It should not have. It has been fixed today, but data has been recorded as PDT.

  • 04/03/2003 We are having problems with data collection. Should have it fixed soon.

  • 02/12/2003 We just had a long power outage. Should be back to normal soon. 9:55 pm.

  • 01/27/2003 Ellisforde, Tonasket, and Pogue Flat were repaired today.

  • 10/29/2002 We had a power outage today from app. 8:51 to 10:59.

  • 10/03/2002 We have a repeater down. This is the cause for several stations currently not reporting in. This will be fixed as soon as possible.

  • 09/12/2002 Updated kernel today.

  • 09/09/2002 The Gleed weather station has been moved and is back online.

  • 09/05/2002 Updated time on remote mtvernon and puyallup base stations. Automatic updates normally take care of this, but the last power outages at these sites wiped out the auto-update.

  • 09/05/2002 We have decided not to run the "text version" of the web site due to potential security issues. Let us know if this causes you problems.

  • 09/05/2002 We are currently in the middle of moving PAWS over to new hardware. Let us know if you have any problems

  • 08/15/2002 Updated Solar calibrations on Walla Walla, McNary, Naches, and Mathews Corner

  • 08/08/2002 Gleed will be down until further notice.

  • 08/05/2002 Batteries were replaced in McWhorter, Fourmile, Coffin, Kennewick, Station 2, and Outlook

  • 07/22/2002 Moved PAWS database to new hardware.

  • 07/21/2002 We should be caught up from the power outage shortly.

  • 07/20/2002 Power will be off in Prosser for 4 hours starting at midnight tonight. Our systems will be down.

  • 06/20/2002 The Apache web server was upgraded to 1.3.26 due to a potential security problem. Downtime was only a few seconds.

  • 05/22/2002 Dr. Thomas W. Ley pointed out that The "notes on PAWS ET" in the FAQ section was incomplete (wrong) and had his name on it. Sorry about that. We have updated these notes to reflect what Dr. Ley originally wrote.

  • 05/14/2002 The UPS battery was replaced today

  • 05/10/2002 We had a UPS failure. We should be caught back up to normal within a couple of hours.

  • 03/19/2002 Upgraded Database engine today.

  • 02/04/2002 The USBR stations have not been updated for sometime now. This is because Agrimet has been offline. We are not sure when this is going to change.

  • 01/24/2002 Fixed rain gauge at Cowichee

  • 01/24/2002 Fixed rain gauge at Moxee

  • 01/24/2002 Replaced battery in Mcnary

  • 12/17/2001 Okanogan valley is behind. Will be back up and running ASAP.

  • 10/11/2001 Data collection got behind last night. Should be back to normal soon.... 04:33 am

  • 09/26/2001 Puyallup remote base station must have had a power outage. Should be caught back up soon...

  • 09/25/2001 CBC Pasco was repaired some data was lost.

  • 08/15/2001 We are behind in data collection. Should be caught up soon.

  • 08/14/2001 We are updating our information database. Please fill out the form when you are presented with it. It helps keep you informed of changes and subscription expirations. Thanks for helping out.

  • 07/31/2001 The battery was replaced in Long Beach. The station should start reporting again after today.

  • 07/17/2001 Added a new link in "Other sites" section under Climate. It is a good explanation of Relative Humidity and Dewpoint... See if you already knew about them.

  • 07/17/2001 Fixed Daily report summaries to include Soil Temperature at Inches. (Was showing up as NA or 32F)

  • 07/12/2001 Fixed wheelhouse station. Fixed air temp problem with Eby. Replaced antenna cable on Finley.

  • 07/12/2001 Radio poller idle since noon. Things should be back to normal soon. 23:05 PST

  • 06/28/2001 Looks like logins have not been possible for about the last 8 hours. Should be ok now...

  • 05/18/2001 Brewster and Pogue Flat are finally communicating again!

  • 05/18/2001 Tim Smith validated the updates to the Cherry Fruit Fly model.

  • 05/18/2001 The Cherry Fruit Fly model has been updated.

  • 05/11/2001 Fixed problem with Mathews Corner and Quincy.

  • 05/11/2001 Fixed problems with Rattlesnake radio repeater.

  • 05/09/2001 Fixed the communications problem with the Mt Vernon station.

  • 05/01/2001 The clock was wrong on the Wenatchee remote base station. This applies to TFREC and Baker Flat. The problem has been fixed.

  • 04/25/2001 Changed air temp maps scale and alpha-blend. The colors are a little more transparent now.

  • 04/13/2001 Repaired the McClure station. Some data was lost.

  • 04/13/2001 Fixed Rattlesnake repeater. Many stations weren't updating the last two days because of this problem.

  • 04/05/2001 Fixed radio communication problem with the Finley station.

  • 04/04/2001 The "New Maps" report now opens in its own Frame.

  • 04/04/2001 As of the 04/04/2001 12:59 Air Temperature maps now show you a QuickGraph report when clicking on a station on the map.

  • 04/04/2001 As of the 04/04/2001 09:59 Air Temperature maps now show the name and current temperature of each station as you hold the mouse over the station location.

  • 04/03/2001 We are going to try a test run tonight with our new Air Temperature Map product for the frost season. You can find it under "New Maps" in the Paid user section. Please note that this software is still being tested and there are no Guarantees...

  • 04/02/2001 Added Metar stations to the Quick graphs report. Also implemented some error checking for the data collection on external networks.

  • 03/29/2001 Added Hanford and Agrimet stations to the Quick graphs report. Still working on the data collection for these two networks... so if you see some bad numbers, we will get it working right eventually...

  • 03/29/2001 Moved the Switzler station. The new location is called Coffin. Should start seeing some data from it soon. 3/29 19:22

  • 03/28/2001 Fixed a couple of problems with the Quick Graph option. If it didn't work right for you, try it again...

  • 03/25/2001 Removed irrigation recorded as precipitation for Sunnyside (830) for August 21,22,23 (1.38",1.69",.65") of 1999.

  • 03/25/2001 Adjusted Solar Radiation for Paterson from 2001-02-23 - 2001-03-25 by a factor of .8467 ET was recalculated.

  • 03/25/2001 Adjusted Solar Radiation for Finley from 2001-01-01 - 2001-03-25 by a factor of .55 ET was recalculated.

  • 03/20/2001 Had to take the web server down for a couple of minutes to replace a bad CPU fan.

  • 03/13/2001 Updated the Wind map on the front page again. The estimates are even more conservative. The mean absolute error and the mean squared error are also included on the legend. You may have to use the reload button on your browser to see it.

  • 03/13/2001 Updated the Wind map on the front page. It uses more conservative estimates. You may have to use the reload button on your browser to see it.

  • 03/13/2001 Put a map of max hourly average wind speed on the front page. Click here: Wind Speed

  • 03/07/2001 Updated about half of the stations that have 10 meter wind speed and air temp. Data for these parameters was missing for dates before 1997.

  • 03/06/2001 Someone removed the lock and battery from the paterson station on Feb the 23rd. If you know who did it, please let us know. We lost a couple of weeks worth of data.

  • 02/13/2001 Windows users should be aware that there are currently some bugs in Netscape 6 that cause some problems accessing PAWS. The 4.7x series of Netscape browsers work much more reliably at this point in time.

  • 02/12/2001 Added new map of site locations in Site Documentation section. Should give you a hint of things to come.... :)

  • 02/12/2001 Changed the look again to reflect changes in the WSU identity logo.

  • 12/20/2000 Upgraded the kernel on the database server today. Had to reboot the machine. Uptime was 142 days.

  • 12/20/2000 The Finley and Paterson stations have been repaired, but we did loose some data on both of them.

  • 11/29/2000 We have discontinued the touch-tone voice access system. Usage was very low compared to the cost of maintaining it.

  • 10/31/2000 WSU-Tri Cities weather station is back online as of today.

  • 10/23/2000 Updated the WISE Web Page.

  • 10/23/2000 Power outage over the weekend at Mt. Vernon. Should be back to normal soon.

  • 10/03/2000 Made some changes in the look and organization of the site today.

  • 10/02/2000 Wow they finally fixed the network! It is working much better now...

  • 10/02/2000 Boise Agrimet data should be caught back up.

  • 10/02/2000 We are still having networking problems, We're hoping they are going to figure it out soon....

  • 09/27/2000 We have figured out a way to get around the network problems. It will take a day or two though. Some of the forms should be working ok now: Today,Yesterday,15MIN,60MIN,24HOUR,USBR,CODLING MOTH,DEGREE DAY,EVAPOTRANSPIRATION should all work fine. The rest will follow shortly. Sorry for the problems.

  • 09/22/2000 The WSU-Tricities station has been taken down today. It will not be collecting data for several days until we can re-locate it. It will be close to where it was.

  • 09/22/2000 The network has been down the last couple of days due to a Sprint problem. It should be fixed now.

  • 09/18/2000 Agrimet data has not been available. We are still trying to figure out why.

  • 09/15/2000 There is a new release of WISE today. The most notable change is that detailed reports are now output as PDF (Acrobat) files.

  • 09/15/2000 We may have had a problem with automatic notfication when signing up for a one-week trial account. So we re-sent out accounts to anyone who signed up since 08/01.

  • 09/15/2000 The network is still REALLY slow today, the problem is not PAWS. If you are having trouble getting in, this is why.

  • 09/14/2000 Updated the WISE web page today. We are just about ready to release a new Beta version. This will probably be the last Beta before the final Release 1.0

  • 09/14/2000 The network is REALLY slow today, the problem is not PAWS. If you are having trouble getting in, this is why.

  • 09/12/2000 More Slope,Elevation,Hill shade, Contour, Aspect maps have been added to the station documentation section.

  • 09/11/2000 Everything seemed to work well over the weekend. Just about everything has been upgraded.

  • 09/08/2000 Making some changes (again) to the radio polling machine. Could be behind for a couple of hours.

  • 09/07/2000 Making some changes to the radio polling machine. Could be behind for a couple of hours.

  • 09/07/2000 We have been running the mySQL open-source database server for about 3 weeks now with no problems. It is faster and easier to maintain.

  • 09/07/2000 Upgraded the backup database server to Debian and mySQL.

  • 09/01/2000 Upgraded Apache and the JServ Engine today.

  • 08/23/2000 A bug has been fixed. It would happen if you selected display to screen, all elements, and multiple stations from the raw data forms. It would only show data for the first station.

  • 08/22/2000 The server has been updated. Try running the Potato Quality Model and create some graphs, as well as some the other CPU intensive models... you should notice a big increase in speed.

  • 08/22/2000 We are updating the web server hardware/software today. Shouldn't cause to many problems.

  • 08/22/2000 Added base 10 soil to degree day model.

  • 08/18/2000 Updated the Monthly Normals Report.

  • 08/18/2000 While the new database access is much faster we still have a limit of 10000 rows of data for any one request. This means you can download/graph a year of hourly data and about 3 Months of 15 Minute Data per request.

  • 08/18/2000 Fixed a couple of small cosmetic problems in the Potato Quality Model and the NEW Wateruse model.

  • 08/18/2000 We are back to running on the new database engine. The -9.99 problem has been fixed.

  • 08/18/2000 Will be running off of the backup database engine for about half of the day.

  • 08/17/2000 Found a problem with the database conversion. Air temperatures below -9.99 degrees C are incorrectly reported as -9.99. Should be able to fix this by noon tomorrow. Will have to switch back to the backup database during the load operation.

  • 08/17/2000 The new database engine seems to be working good. It is faster and the new drivers fixed a couple of problems. When graphing raw data, it doesn't give you a partial set and the potato quality model works better (and faster). We will also be upgrading the web server hardware and software sometime very soon...

  • 08/16/2000 We are currently running on a new database system. Let us know if you find any problems... You should notice a substantial speed increase.

  • 08/16/2000 Removed some irrigation from total precip for OTHELLO on 2000-08-13.

  • 08/16/2000 Testing the new Database today. Haven't worked out all of the bugs yet. Should have it working soon. Thanks.

  • 08/10/2000 The database machine locked up today. May be a hardware problem. We are currently running on the backup database.

  • 08/04/2000 The Sunnyside radio was swapped out. It has been working more reliably today.

  • 08/02/2000 The radio in the Pogue Flat station has been swapped out for repair. Pogue Flat is now working just fine.

  • 07/31/2000 The Eby station was repaired. Data from 2000-07-28 to 2000-07-31 was lost for this station.

  • 07/30/2000 Eby station is having problems and will be repaired first thing Monday. It has also been the cause of some data missing for other stations since yesterday. The database should be back to normal very soon 20:11 PST.

  • 07/28/2000 Replaced the pyronometers at Parker and Port of Sunnyside for calibration.

  • 07/26/2000 Replaced the pyronometer at the Station 2 station for calibration.

  • 07/25/2000 Replaced the pyronometer at the Mathews corner and WSU Othello stations for sensor calibration.

  • 07/24/2000 The web server had to be taken down and restarted for unknown reasons today.

  • 07/21/2000 Updated station images for Alderdale. Added new images for Hundred Circles.

  • 07/17/2000 Replaced pyronometer at the Walla Walla station.

  • 07/12/2000 Removed false precipitation from Wenatchee for 07/12 and 07/13.

  • 07/07/2000 Updated lat,lng, ,elevation and location map info for Hundred Circles.

  • 07/05/2000 Fixed solar and wind-direction calibrations on the Roza station. They have been off since 2000-06-22.

  • 06/22/2000 Finally got sunnyside re-programmed. Should start seeing data from it again soon.

  • 06/21/2000 Installed a new weather station called hundred circles. The new Campbell modem wiped out the programs in Roza and Sunyside... Roza should only be missing a couple of hours today, but sunnyside may be down until tomorrow.

  • 06/18/2000 The PAWS web server was down for a few hours last night. First downtime in over 7 months. The hard disk was full on one of the partitions.... should be back to normal soon.

  • 06/16/2000 New WISE document available on WISE Web Page. It is a paper on WISE to be presented at an ASAE meeting in Phoenix.

  • 06/12/2000 The Mt Vernon remote station had a power outage over the weekend. Should be back to normal shortly.

  • 06/06/2000 Updated the PAWS usage information PAWS Usage Stats. It now shows last year compared to this year so far for the period 01/26 to 06/06

  • 06/06/2000 The Other Sites links have been grouped by category.

  • 06/05/2000 Added images for the Outlook station to the station documentation section.

  • 06/02/2000 Monthly Normals graphs are now available at the bottom of the Normals report.

  • 06/01/2000 Things should be back to normal.

  • 06/01/2000 We are having some problems. Should be back to normal soon.

  • 05/30/2000 The BBS access has been shutdown and will no longer be available.

  • 05/25/2000 WISE Water Use All Crops option now shows the default emergence and harvest dates for all crops in the report.

  • 05/25/2000 Changed the Quick Graphs solar plot to use bars.

  • 05/25/2000 Changed the WISE Water Usage model. When selecting all crops, it will generate a one page report for the last 7 days with an estimate for the next 7 days.

  • 05/24/2000 Replaced the solar panel on the Carlson station.

  • 05/23/2000 Updated the PAWS usage statistics. PAWS Usage 13,706 data requests in the last month! We had 375,596 GET requests on the PAWS web server in the last 30 days.

  • 05/19/2000 Othello soil temp sensor replaced.

  • 05/17/2000 The fence around the Moxee station was repaired. The rain gauge was also repaired.

  • 05/15/2000 Added Julian day to the elements options in the raw data reports.

  • 05/09/2000 Filled in daily tables with missing days back to 1989.

  • 05/08/2000 Updated Monthly Normals.

  • 05/05/2000 You may be asked to verify and update your user information when you log in. It only gives you one chance, please help us out and fill it in completely. Thanks!

  • 05/04/2000 Updated the WISE home page a little.

  • 05/04/2000 There are now links to station information in the header of reports.

  • 05/03/2000 There are some images available for the Alderdale station now.

  • 05/03/2000 A new pyronometer (solar radiation) sensor was installed at Naches on 04/17/2000. The calibration was off. Solar radiation data between 04-17-2000 and 05-03-2000 has been reduced by 25 percent. Reference ET was recalculated for the period.

  • 05/03/2000 We have added Aspect, Slope, Elevation, Contour, and Hillshade maps for many of the stations. More will follow. You may have to re-load the station-image pages depending on how your web browser caches pages.

  • 05/02/2000 Updated the station maps for Moxee (was way off on Latitude and Longitude) and Finley (off a little).

  • 05/02/2000 Wow, the Puyallup remote site has been up for 425 days without any problems. Who says free software isn't better? The Puyallup site has not been down for one second since Linux was installed. To see how long the rest of the machines have been up, Click on the System Status button. The only downtime we have anymore is caused by System upgrade, Power outage, or bad hardware (in that order).

  • 05/02/2000 It appears that the replacement radio in the Ahtanum station is working fine.

  • 04/26/2000 Generating reports for 15 minute data now uses the label "min air since 7pm" for the min air column as this caused confusion for some.

  • 04/25/2000 Fixed a problem with e-mail going out to users that signed up for a free-trial-week. The return address was wrong: e-mail for PAWS should be sent to wsupaws@perfection.prosser.wsu.edu NOT wsupaws@president.prosser.wsu.edu

  • 04/20/2000 The Roza station had to be reset on 09/29/1999. Some coefficients were entered incorrectly resulting in incorrect data. The following changes have been made to the database table for the Roza Station for the period from 1999-09-29 to 2000-04-13:
  • Wind Direction was multiplied by a factor of 2.0
  • Solar Radiation was multiplied by a factor of 1.13895
  • 2 Meter Wind Speed was multiplied by a factor of 1.1262666
  • Reference ET was re-calculated for the period.

  • 04/20/2000 Updated the PAWS usage statistics. PAWS Usage Wow, looks like we had app. 10,000 data requests in the last month! We had 348,755 GET requests on the PAWS web server in the last 30 days.

  • 04/19/2000 Added a new report: Normals. With over 10 years of data for some sites, it seems appropriate to add a Monthly Normals report. We will update the tables once a month. When reporting the year an extreme event happened, the most recent year is given in instances where there are multiple occurences. Note that this report has much more meaning on stations that have been in place for several years. The Max Precipitation may show some stations that recorded irrigation as precipitation. We will try to isolate these irrigation events and remove them from the database.

  • 04/17/2000 Ahtanum radio problems should be fixed.

  • 04/13/2000 Updated the Model Summary Link.

  • 04/12/2000 Added Long Beach, Grayland, Puyallup, and Mt Vernon images to station documentation section.

  • 04/10/2000 Fixed date scale on degree day portion of quick graph.

  • 04/04/2000 Added two new columns to the degree day model. They show max-base and max-base accumulated. This is used for bud development on fruit trees. See the links inside the model for more information.

  • 04/03/2000 Added two new experimental reports. Fireblight forecast and Apple scab forecast. Please let us know if you find bugs or just send some feedback if you think we should keep developing more of these type of java applets. You may have to download a plug-in for these reports to work, this only has to be done once. If you are using a dial-up account, it may take a little while for the applets to start.

  • 04/03/2000 Some of the newer station images had East and West directions mixed up. They should be fixed now.

  • 04/03/2000 Fixed a problem with the Annual report. It was reporting incorrect annual wind runs.

  • 04/03/2000 Fixed a problem with the MAPS report.

  • 03/28/2000 Brewster, Tonasket, and Ellisforde images have been added to the site documentation section. Site Documentation

  • 03/28/2000 Quincy, Wenatchee, Baker Flat, Pogue Flat, and Oroville images have been added to the site documentation section. Site Documentation

  • 03/22/2000 Updated the PAWS usage statistics. PAWS Usage

  • 03/17/2000 The temperature durations report now shows minutes at or below for each temperature instead of minutes for each temperature.

  • 03/13/2000 Added a new link for Tree Fruit and Vine Decision Support Info on the front page.

  • 03/10/2000 Fixed a problem with the fireblight model. The last 4 days of HU column should now be correct.

  • 03/09/2000 There is a new version of WISE available.

  • 03/08/2000 Added a couple of links to online sprayer calibration programs in the Other Sites section.

  • 03/03/2000 What a difference switching to the Linux operating system has made! The Puyallup remote site has been transfering data hourly for exactly one year today since Linux was installed without any problems! A new record for PAWS uptime. Mt Vernon would have tied Puyallup, but they had a power outage 92 days ago that lasted longer than the battery backup system. TFREC also had a power outage 14 days ago. It had been up for about 100 days since initial installation with no problems. Oroville has been re-booted twice (for software upgrades) since Linux was installed app. 18 months ago. Hope this notice entry isn't knocking on wood...

  • 02/29/2000 Made quite a few internal changes to the system today. Please let us know if you find any problems with the reports.

  • 02/21/2000 Added ForeCast to the list of reports available.

  • 02/18/2000 Updated the Reference Evapotranspiration applet in http://index.prosser.wsu.edu/about/ETCalcGUI.shtml

  • 02/17/2000 PAWS now shows Metric units for Solar radiation when selecting English for the unit type on 15 minute, 60 minute, Daily and Quick-Graph reports. Hopefully this will be more useful to everyone. The units are Watts/Meter squared and MegaJoules/Meter Squared. Both Metric and English units are still shown in the Daily and Monthly Summaries.

  • 02/17/2000 More updates to the WISE web page. WISE web page

  • 02/16/2000 Redesigned the WISE web page. WISE web page

  • 02/16/2000 The 'TODAY' current report now displays the 24:00 hour for the previous day when the time is between 00:30 and 01:30.

  • 02/04/2000 Radio Poller was upgraded.

  • 02/04/2000 Still Upgrading the Radio Poller machine. Data will be behind for an hour or two.

  • 02/03/2000 Upgrading the Radio Poller machine. Data will be behind for an hour or two.

  • 02/02/2000 Pre-Calculated all of 1999 WISE Evapotranspiration data. This makes downloading the 1999 data for testing WISE much faster. As of this year, the data gets pre-calculated at app. 5am in the morning for the previous day. It is possible to get the data before 5am, but it must be re-calculated, which takes more time.

  • 01/28/2000 Upgraded the Apache web server and the JServe Servlet engine today.

  • 01/26/2000 Quincy is now reporting correct RH and Dewpoint measurements.

  • 01/26/2000 We have a few more station images available. Just click on Station Images on the right-front page.

  • 01/24/2000 We have a few more station images available. Just click on Station Images on the right-front page.

  • 01/21/2000 We have a few more station images available. Just click on Station Images on the right-front page.

  • 01/20/2000 Touchet station was repaired and is now reporting correct relative humidity and dewpoint.

  • 01/20/2000 Added the Station service date range to the headers of most reports.

  • 01/18/2000 We have a few more station images available. Just click on Station Images on the right-front page.

  • 01/14/2000 Fixed a bug when selecting ALL ELEMENTS in 24-hour forms. Only been a problem since yesterday.

  • 01/13/2000 The switchover is complete. You can now run the models back to the station installation date. 1989 in some cases. All data is available for all reports.

  • 01/13/2000 We will be switching to the Linux version of DB2 today. Expect some service interruptions.

  • 01/12/2000 New version of WISE available. This is by far the most stable bug-free version yet. If you are running an earlier version, you need to upgrade.

  • 01/08/2000 Found the problem that IE 5.0 was having with some of our model forms. The problem affected several models and has been fixed to work with IE 5.0

  • 01/07/2000 We just tested MS Internet Explorer 5.01 with PAWS with no problems so far. They seem to have fixed problems with IE 5.0

  • 01/07/2000 There may be a bug in MS Internet Explorer 5.0 that causes problems when filling out the large report forms on PAWS. After clicking on the Submit Query button in a report, you just get the report header and nothing else. If you have these problems, try an earlier version of IE or try any version of Netscape.

  • 01/06/2000 We will be switching to the Linux Version of DB2 for our database server this afternoon. Expect some interruption of service.

  • 01/05/2000 New corporate rate is $1600.00, not $1500.00. We apoligize for the error in the rates posted on Oct 30, 1999.

  • 01/04/2000 Added Oroville,Brewster,EllisForde,Pogue Flat, Tonasket, and Baker Flat to the temp durations (freq histogram) report. They won't show up until tomorrow.

  • 01/04/2000 Replaced a dead battery in Gleed. Data from 2000-01-01 7am to 2000-01-04 10am is lost.

  • 01/02/2000 Switched to one of DECs time servers to update the time on our servers (they don't set the year to 1910).

  • 01/01/2000 No Y2K problems.

  • 12/30/1999 Last login date and time is now shown at the top of the reports section when you first log-in with a new session. This is our first use of cookies. Eventually, we may be able to save the state of report forms you fill out this way (optionally of course). This could eliminate the need to remember Bio-Fix date for the Codling moth model or Emergence and Harvest dates for the Wateruse model for example.

  • 12/29/1999 7 sites completed in the Station Images section.

  • 12/29/1999 The section formerly called Info/Maps is now called FAQ (frequently asked questions)

  • 12/29/1999 Updated the station images section. Will be adding new pictures shortly.

  • 12/28/1999 Changed the look a little for the new year. The Other links and FAQ pages do not contain graphic images any longer. This should make viewing these pages faster.

  • 12/28/1999 The current conditions page should automatically update every 15 minutes if your browser supports the refresh meta tag.

  • 12/28/1999 Updated the Annual Precip Map in the info/maps section.

  • 12/22/1999 Filled all missing data back to 1989 with place-holder NA's. Eventually we will fill the holes with estimated data. Report generation will have the capability to identify what is estimated data.

  • 12/21/1999 Fixed a bug in the WISE Water use model. Custom emergence and harvest dates resulted in incorrect calculations. Hopefully it is fixed now.

  • 12/20/1999 Added Links for Wine Grape and Tree fruit research here at IAREC.

  • 12/17/1999 Added an optional "text version" of the site to the front page. This is still experimental. Dont get too attached to it yet... It should increase the speed for those of you without a lot of bandwidth. Note that the report must be generated before the graphics are filtered out. For very long reports, there will be a pause before you see anything happen...

  • 12/15/1999 Added Wind Chill to the Quick Graphs Report.

  • 12/14/1999 We're are currently in the process of updating images of all the sites. Next week we should have most of them done. Right now, HQ, CBC, and Benton City images are updated and you can see the new format. Images are located under FAQ "Where are the PAWS stations located?"

  • 12/13/1999 Choosing 15Minute,60Minute, USBR, and 24Hour forms for reports will now show descriptions for the parameters instead of datbase field names.

  • 12/12/1999 Data for Roza, Othello, and Mathews Corner was lost from app. 1pm to 5pm due to a communications problem.

  • 12/08/1999 There is now an option on the front page to sign up for a free 1 week trial account for PAWS. If you know someone that might be interested, let them know about it.

  • 12/03/1999 We have updated the Water Use Model. It is now labled WISE WaterUse. It uses the same adjustable coeffients that the Washington Irrigation Scheduling Expert does. The new model has more crops to choose from and allows selection of emergence and harvest dates for automatic adjustment of the coefficent curves. The new model is also MUCH faster. The old model is still available as Old Water Use in case you still want to use it.

  • 11/29/1999 Updated the PAWS usage statistics in the info/maps section.

  • 11/18/1999 Put some Pre-PAWS weather data on the site. You can find it in the FAQ section.

  • 11/08/1999 Access was unintentionally disabled for about an hour around noon today. Sorry.

  • 11/08/1999 Repaired air temp/ RH sensor on Carlson weather station.

  • 11/05/1999 Repaired upper air temperature on Tonasket weather station.

  • 11/03/1999 Changed time format for reports to 24:00 for midnight instead of 00:00

  • 11/01/1999 Oct 31 one-hour shift in data has been fixed.

  • 10/31/1999 Oops. Forgot to make sure that the time was right after switching back to PST. Will fix the data Monday morning. Sorry for any inconvenience.

  • 10/30/1999 With great regret, PAWS must raise all subscription fees beginning Jan. 1, 2000. Further university cuts have forced us to cover some salary as well as operating expenses. New individual rates will be $200.00. Corporate rates will increase to $1500.00. We hope you will continue to use and support PAWS. All of the ag industry is undergoing some painful times, so this increase may not be easy. However, we have no option. If you have questions, please call 786-9219.

  • 10/28/1999 Added the USBR stations to the frostdates report.

  • 10/28/1999 Added the USBR stations to the evapotranspiration model.

  • 10/28/1999 Added the USBR stations to the codling moth model.

  • 10/28/1999 Added the USBR stations to the cherry fruit fly model.

  • 10/28/1999 Added the USBR stations to the water-use model.

  • 10/28/1999 Added the USBR stations to the degree day model.

  • 10/28/1999 Added Precip to the reports section. You can find how much it rained between two dates.

  • 10/28/1999 If you are having problems with authentication, Make sure that you are not putting spaces before, after, or in the middle of your userid. It WILL NOT work if you do.

  • 10/28/1999 Added Wine Grapes to the Water Use Model.

  • 10/28/1999 HINT: If you are in a hurry to get the most recent conditions type: http://index.prosser.wsu.edu/paws/TODAY for the URL location in your web browser. For yesterday type: http://index.prosser.wsu.edu/paws/YESTERDAY ...you can bookmark these pages.

  • 10/27/1999 Added a new report: Annual report. It shows extremes, averages, and totals by year.

  • 10/26/1999 Web server machine Operating system, Apache web server, and Apache JServe Servlet engine upgraded. Everything seems to be ok...

  • 10/25/1999 Plan for some down time Tuesday the 26th. We will be upgrading the web server.

  • 10/25/1999 Gave the web page a new look. When the notices or status pages have been modified within the last 24 hours, you will see a notification at the top of the reports page in RED.

  • 10/21/1999 Implemented the New Electronic Publishing Policy for the PAWS and WISE web pages.

  • 10/20/1999 We will be doing various upgrades this week. We will try to make it as transparent as possible, but there may be some downtime.

  • 10/15/1999 Updated PAWS usage statistics in FAQ section.

  • 10/12/1999 Swapped radio in Pogue Flat. Should report-in more reliable now.

  • 10/11/1999 Moved rain gauge on Baker Flat up higher to prevent irrigation from reading as precip.

  • 10/11/1999 Converted Wentatchee to Linux. This is the last remote site conversion! We are working hard to convert PAWS entirely to Linux. Shouldn't be too much longer...

  • 10/07/1999 Had to take Roza station down for a few minutes today. Air temp profile should be right now.

  • 10/07/1999 Swapped out radio in Kennewick station.

  • 10/06/1999 Sunnyside, Walla Walla, and College place rain guages have been moved up on the mast to prevent irrigation from giving false readings.

  • 10/06/1999 Ahtanum, Sunnyside, Wapato radios were adjusted. Should come in more reliable.

  • 10/06/1999 The Solar Panel from Ahtanum was stolen on the night/early morning of August 13th. Station should be reporting again by noon or so.

  • 10/05/1999 Swapped radios on Wapato station.

  • 09/29/1999 Updated missing data for longbeach on 09/26.

  • 09/28/1999 There is some data missing for the ROZA station on 09/27 and 09/28. It is non-recoverable.

  • 09/10/1999 Switched back to the type-4 drivers until the new database server is in place.

  • 09/09/1999 We are now using native jdbc drivers for accessing the database. You should notice a big difference on large requests and graphing.

  • 08/30/1999 There were some problems when trying to graph a years worth of 60 minute data. It should be ok now...

  • 08/30/1999 Longbeach was repaired last week. It had bad air temp and rh readings.

  • 08/24/1999 Brewster's solar coefficient has been off since January of 1999. The problem was fixed and the database was fixed. ET was recalculated using .57 of total_solar from 1999-01-21 to 1999-08-24

  • 08/18/1999 We are missing an hour of data for 08/17/1999 around noon.

  • 08/17/1999 Aligned radio on Boylston Mt. Ellensberg should be working good again...

  • 08/16/1999 Changed radios on Ahtanum and Kennewick. Ahtanum had a battery connector loose and lost data from 8/14 - 8/16.

  • 08/11/1999 Added a new Report under Quick Graphs. Just pick a site or sites and hit the button. It will give you current info, yesterday, and a degree-day summary graph.

  • 08/10/1999 Updated the usage stats again. They are in the FAQ section.

  • 08/09/1999 Added Ahtanum, Alderdale, and Outlook to the Touchtone Voice System.

  • 08/09/1999 Fixed problem for the touch-tone dial-up system. It was reporting incorrect wind directions.

  • 08/02/1999 Fixed problem for raw data extraction... Only affected requests that ended in August or October.

  • 08/02/1999 Fixed missing hour and missing USBR data for 07/31/1999.

  • 07/27/1999 Updated the Weather Links section.

  • 07/27/1999 Added some more Documents to the FAQ section.

  • 07/23/1999 Added several new Documents in the FAQ section.

  • 07/22/1999 We are working on a color-coded, multi-layer mapping system for PAWS. Currently only current and yesterdays conditions are available. Select MAPS under the REPORTS section. Please give us some feedback if you have ideas. Thanks.

  • 07/20/1999 We now have some pictures available for the stations. These are not recent photos, but we will be updating them shortly. You can find them in the FAQ section Where are the paws stations located?

  • 07/20/1999 Fixed monthly summary, daily summary, temp durations, WISE ET downloads which quit working yesterday afternoon sometime.

  • 07/16/1999 New version of WISE available. This download fixes a problem downloading ET from the new PAWS Web site.

  • 07/16/1999 Fixed wind speed on Naches station.

  • 07/14/1999 An omni-directional antenna was install on mathews-corner. Hopefully Badger Canyon will now come in more reliably.

  • 07/14/1999 We've switched to the Apache/JServe web server. Reports should be a LOT faster.

  • 07/06/1999 Added some new links in the Weather Links section.

  • 07/02/1999 Updated the PAWS usage statistics in the INFO/MAPS section.

  • 07/01/1999 There is a new alpha version of available. Look for a fully functional beta-version sometime next week!

  • 06/29/1999 Changed the max records per request from 1000 to 10000. This means you could graph a years worth of 60-minute data if you need to...

  • 06/23/1999 Re-oriented the antenna on Ahtanum.

  • 06/23/1999 New version of WISE available.

  • 06/10/1999 Added Link to in the Links section. This software is still in the Alpha stage. WISE (Washington Irrigation Scheduling Expert) is a java based graphical application to manage irrigation requirements for multiple farms, delivery systems, and crops. It will soon be ready for beta testing. Please feel free to get a copy of the software now and give us some feedback.

  • 06/08/1999 The Grape powdery mildew model was incorrectly showing precip in millimeters instead of inches. This has been fixed. It didn't affect the GPM index, because the model only looks for the existance of precip, not the amount.

  • 05/28/1999 Added Tim Smiths Model Summary to the reports section.

  • 05/28/1999 Fixed a problem with the fireblight model not showing risk level when dew occurs. Please check your sites for this model again!

  • 05/25/1999 Fixed problem with temperature profile on the Roza station.

  • 05/24/1999 Put the HOUR column back in the Apple Scab model.

  • 05/24/1999 Our internet services have had serious problems since Friday. This is what caused the problem accessing PAWS the past few days.

  • 05/21/1999 The Royal city and Saddle mountain radios have been modified and calibrated. The Royal city station should report-in on a more reliable basis now.

  • 05/20/1999 Added PAWS usage information to the info section.

  • 05/20/1999 Okanogan County maintainence has been completed. The Oroville base station was up for 116 Days straight before we had to take it down to upgrade it. I believe that is a new record. (Thanks to the Linux operating system)

  • 05/20/1999 The PAWS Web Server has been upgraded to 256 Megs of RAM.

  • 05/18/1999 Moses Lake and Othello clients: If you are having trouble getting to PAWS, the problem seems to be the number of 'hops' from your computers to ours. The limit is about 30, and the routing is taking at least 30 'hops'. Our Prosser computer network specialist is looking into the matter. We hope to work with your Internet providers to devise a solution.H

  • 05/18/1999 GOOD NEWS! WSU-Prosser is getting a T-1 line. W, Th, Fri of this week our service may be intermittent. Sorry for any inconvenience. Please be patient, and access time should be very, very fast. We'll keep you posted.H

  • 05/17/1999 Sorry, but there has been another change to the CODLING MOTH model. It will now start at 0 accumulated codling moth units for biofix.

  • 05/17/1999 There has been some confusion over the codling moth model. It now starts at 200 accumulated heat units for the biofix date that YOU provide. If your first catch is May 15th, set the biofix date to May 15th. This will start you at 200 CM Units, which is 1% emergence.

  • 05/13/1999 The Codling Moth model has been changed to use the initial date as the bio fix date. (first catch of the season).

  • 04/22/1999 Cowiche has been moved and is back online today. (its only about 100 yards from where it was)

  • 04/21/1999 HINT: If you are in a hurry to get the most recent conditions type: http://index.prosser.wsu.edu/paws/TODAY for the URL location in your web browser. For yesterday type: http://index.prosser.wsu.edu/paws/YESTERDAY ...you can bookmark these pages.

  • 04/21/1999 The Applescab Model has been changed to show light,moderate, and heavy infection BEFORE the 8 hours of drying has occurred. It then shows the Incubation rating in Days after 8 hours of drying.

  • 04/21/1999 The Fireblight Model has been changed to include leaf wetness. 180 Consecutive minutes of leaf wetness (dew) can trigger a Fire Blight event.

  • 04/18/1999 The web server is now running on an AMD K6 350Mhz machine running Redhat Linux 5.2.

  • 04/14/1999 The Air stability model is now available. (Only works with stations that have air temp at 10 meters.)

  • 04/14/1999 The Grape/Cherry Powdery mildew model is now available.

  • 04/13/1999 The daily summary report is now available. If you have a HP Laser Jet or compatible, you can make a really nice printout of the report. (1) Choose output to file option. (2) Save the file to c:\daily.rpt (3) Copy the file to the printer port (ex: copy c:\daily.rpt lpt1:)

  • 04/13/1999 The monthly summary report is now available. If you have a HP Laser Jet or compatible, you can make a really nice printout of the report. (1) Choose output to file option. (2) Save the file to c:\monthly.rpt (3) Copy the file to the printer port (ex: copy c:\monthly.rpt lpt1:)

  • 04/13/1999 Added the new Alderdale station to the maps section.

  • 04/09/1999 Equipment changes at our Okanogan area internet service have compromised PAWS ability to transfer data. We are working on the problem. Very sorry to have service disrupted at such a critical time. It will be fixed ASAP.

  • 04/07/1999 The Cowiche station was vandalized and will have to be moved.

  • 04/06/1999 The problems with access last night and this morning were do to a problem with US West communications. PAWS was NOT down. We are very sorry that this happened, but there was nothing we could do about it.

  • 03/29/1999 The conversion just didn't work out this time. Will try again later. Probably after frost.

  • 03/27/1999 The server is slow today... will have it fixed ASAP.

  • 03/26/1999 PAWS now has a new station: Alderdale. Should start seeing data from it today at 2:30pm PST

  • 03/17/1999 The Okanogan stations are not coming in due to a dead phone line in Oroville. This is also currently affecting transfers from Mt Vernon, Puyallup, and Wenatchee. The problem will be fixed within the next day.

  • 03/17/1999 Fixed a problem that was preventing the 15 and 60 minute historical(pre 1997) reports to not work.

  • 03/12/1999 Our parts vendor didn't ship on time, so we will not be upgrading until next week sometime.

  • 03/12/1999 Fixed a problem with graphing caused by yesterdays fix.

  • 03/11/1999 Fixed some problems with the date spans when graphing daily values.

  • 03/11/1999 We will be using a temporary server this weekend during the upgrade. There shouldn't be any downtime.

  • 03/10/1999 The Temp Durations report is now available in the reports section.

  • 03/08/1999 We may be down for an upgrade this next weekend of the 13th and/or 14th. Let us know if this is a problem for anyone.

  • 03/08/1999 You should be able to use invalid dates and still get a report. Feb 31, for example, Would translate to March 2nd or 3rd depending on leap years.

  • 03/05/1999 WSU Puyallup and WSU Mt Vernon have both been converted to Linux and are available Real-time!

  • 03/02/1999 Changed the mime-type for output to file to www/unknown. Should now be able to use the output to file from internet explorer if you wish.

  • 02/26/1999 Changed the start date for degree unit models to Jan 1 instead of March 1

  • 02/26/1999 Added the Cherry Fruit Fly model to the reports section. More models should be available soon.

  • 02/26/1999 Added the new improved Apple Scab model to the reports section. More models should be available soon.

  • 02/25/1999 Added the new improved Fire Blight model to the reports section. More models should be available soon.

  • 01/28/1999 If you are using Internet Explorer and have had problems saving reports to disk with the output to file option, we recommend Netscape Navigator.

  • 01/28/1999 If you are using Internet Explorer and have had problems with the text reports not being terminated (lines of report do not wrap), this problem should be solved. This happened because Microsoft browsers expect carriage return/line feeds at the end of each line instead of the normal line feed.

  • 01/26/1999 The potato growth model has been updated. This model uses a lot of data, so be patient!

  • 01/25/1999 Lots of changes going on with the system. Okanogan county has been upgraded and should be much more reliable. Expect to see new models and reports available soon...

  • 01/15/1999 The new report generation/e-mail/ftp software has been in action for about a week now. All is well....

  • 01/14/1999 The finley location map was wrong. Should be ok now.

  • 01/05/1999 Our battery backup system capacity was increased significantly. Should be able to last a lot longer in power outages.

  • 01/05/1999 Making graphs now shows what the units are.

  • 01/05/1999 Some bugs have been fixed in the reports if you choose no headers.

  • 01/05/1999 We have been experimenting with modifications to the radios. This has resulted in much more reliable comunication so far.

  • 01/03/1999 Fixed problem with data request forms. They only allowed time to be between 0100 and 2400 instead of 0000 to 2400.

  • 01/03/1999 Started Voice touch-tone system.

  • 01/03/1999 Updated old server/database and started it updating again.

  • 01/03/1999 Rattle snake radio repeater was repaired.

  • 01/03/1999 Fixed bug with hour 2400 on dec 31. (thought I already got that one...)

  • 12/29/1998 Account expiration date is now shown at the top of the paid-user menu.

  • 12/11/1998 Daily data, and models that use daily information go back to 1989 now.

  • 11/30/1998 This system is now completely independent from the old web server. If the old system goes down, it shouldn't affect this one at all.

  • 11/30/1998 This system will become the default system for PAWS on Jan 1 1999. (frost.prosser.wsu.edu)

  • 11/12/1998 Touch tone system is working again...

  • 11/10/1998 Added WRCC-102 Document in FAQ section.

  • 10/19/1998 The WSU Roza Site Wind Direction has been off by a factor of 2 since 06/07/1998. The Direction Data has been fixed (multiplied X 2).

  • 10/16/1998 Upgraded Server to Java 1.1.7. Should be even faster now!

  • 10/15/1998 There is now a system status button. We will try to keep this up to date.

  • 09/18/1998 There is a new Report for Spring and fall frost dates...(Paid Users Only)

  • 09/17/1998 Fixed problem with accumulated ET on the WaterUse Model.

  • 09/17/1998 Fixed problem with the links page and Polished up the Station Maps pages.

  • 09/17/1998 Added a help page for making graphs. Its on the forms or you can access it in the info/maps section.

  • 09/16/1998 You can now log in with username: demouser and password: demouser for a trial run...

  • 09/11/1998 The Kennewick site wind speed was wrong from 03-18-1997 to 08-27-191998. It was too low by a factor of 3.33. This has been fixed. As a result daily ET values are much higher and Daily Wind Direction is different.

  • 09/11/1998 A new Potato Quality Potential model has been added in the reports section.

  • 09/11/1998 The PAWS Frost-Free maps are now available in the info/maps section.

  • 09/01/1998 The Water Use Model is now available for 27 crops. Pick as many sites as you want and output to file or display...

  • 08/25/1998 Current Prosser weather is now avaible on the initial start page. You may view a plot by pressing the 'Prosser Weather' button. This info is courtesy of the Biosystems Engineering Group here at WSU in Prosser.

  • 08/21/1998 The evapotranspiration model now shows accumulated precip.

  • 08/21/1998 It is now possible to generate multiple plots per request! Pick as many sites as you want and output to plot.

  • 08/11/1998 The Heat Index and Wind Chill Models are now available! Pick as many sites as you want and output to file or display...

  • 08/10/1998 The Evapotranspiration Model is now available! Pick as many sites as you want and output to file or display...

  • 08/07/1998 The Degree Day Model is now available! Pick as many sites as you want and output to file or display...

  • 08/06/1998 Ok. I decided to re-write the web-server code for authentication so it works with Internet Explorer 4.xx.

  • 08/06/1998 The Codling Moth Model is now available! Pick as many sites as you want and output to file or display...

  • 08/04/1998 HQ 720 station aquired a problem with the rain gauge sometime after 7/10/1998. It has been repaired as of Today.

  • 08/04/1998 The plotting option has been changed. If you choose Evapotranspiration or Precip for your output, you will get a bar-graph instead on a continuous line.

  • 08/04/1998 Some changes were made so those of you using text-based web browsers shouldn't have problems using this site.

  • 07/30/1998 A couple of users have reported that they had problems accessing the reports section with Internet Exporer 4.0 latest release from Microsoft. If you have this problem, please let us know (it will come up as a 500 internal server error during authentication). We have no known problems with Netscape on 3 different platforms, HotJava, Webexplorer, at least one version of Internet Explorer (older one), Lynx, or Suns Java HTML component.

  • 07/29/1998 Ever wonder what goes into Evapotranspiration Calculations? Try out the new ET Calculator in the FAQ Section. Requires Java 1.02

  • 07/29/1998 There are a couple of good links for a visual representation of cloud cover and rain over Washington in the Weather Links section: Earthwatch NW and NETXRAD. Check them out...

  • 07/28/1998 Due to a problem with the solar measurements for moses lake from 07/07/1998 to 07/27/1998, Solar radiation has been substituted from Royal city for that period. ET values were re-calculated.

  • 07/22/1998 The Models have not been converted yet, but let us know what you think about the new site so far.

  • 07/06/1998 IAREC was apparently hit by the lightning storm over the weekend. Things should be back to normal now.

  • 07/02/1998 The Outlook station was damaged by fire. Repairs completed.

  • 06/28/1998 New system is on-line.

    paid_users paws_info site_links notices feedback

    This page was generated on 2008-08-20