Castlegar FSS - (YCG) Castlegar Airport, BC
Posted by: T0SHEA
N 49° 17.780 W 117° 38.098
11U E 453833 N 5460592
This weather station, at the Flight Service Station, is just northeast of the tower, adjacent to it.
Waymark Code: WMFRY4
Location: British Columbia, Canada
Date Posted: 11/25/2012
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Monitoring weather conditions at the Castlegar Airport, this station monitors (at least) the following: air temperature, humidity, wind speed and direction, wind gust velocity, freeze up, precipitation, rate of precipitation, cloud ceiling, snow depth and sunshine hours. It uses a satellite uplink.
As to the nature of the instruments employed this is all that is known:
Sunshine - uses Campbell Stokes type of instrument.
Snow - uses Nipher gauge.
Ceilometer - uses Laser Ceilometer.