Hoodoo Butte weather - 2020 04/01 (Wed) 17:49 - Mobile page - Weather page - 6 hour - Pictures page
Current 48 Hour Trend over the last 48 hours
Temperature 27 °F
-3 °C
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Snow depth 89.4"
227 cm
Snowfall since Oct 1st
203.3"
Low / # OK / High
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Max 92.1"
Min 82.7"
1 Hr -0.6"
3 Hr -0.9"
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Light Level

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Power rail 13.01 Volts
43.4 / 37.0
V_panel = 3.14 V / V_batt = 26.30 V / I_1 = -0.48 A / I_2 = 0.00 A
Created: 2020 04/01 17:50

Hoodoo Butte is a 5700' (1737 m) volcanic cinder cone located on the crest of the Cascade Range in central Oregon.

On your map, it's about 2.5 miles southwest of Santiam Pass (Highway US 20, milepost 81), and about 1.5 miles west of the Pacific Crest Trail. For the GPS-inclined, that's about 44.402 N, 121.882 W (WGS84 datum).

Forecast, satellite & radar information for:
  Santiam Pass - Forecast / Radar - from National Weather Service in Portland, OR
  Northwest US - Forecast zones / Visible (loop) / IR (AVN) (loop) / IR (rainbow) (loop) / Water vapor (loop) / Radar (loop) /
  Western US - Forecast zones / Visible (loop) / IR (AVN) (loop) / IR rainbow (loop) / water vapor (loop) / Radar (loop) /
  Northeast Pacific - Forecast zones / Visible / Infrared / IR w/ jetstream / IR (AVN) (loop) / Water vapor (loop) / Water Vapor (loop) - from NOAA / National Weather Service

This is: http://www.santiampassskipatrol.org/wx/weather.htm
Related: Multi-picture page (~670 Kbytes) w/ Top SW, Hodag, 'Ed, Manzanita, Easy Rider, Headwall, Bowl, Parking Lot (center & south) and more (~20-70 Kbytes each)
Graphs of temperature & snow depth: 2019-20 & 18-19, 17-18, 16-17, 15-16, 14-15, 13-14, 12-13, 11-12, 10-11, 09-10, 08-09, 07-08, 06-07, 05-06, 04-05, 03-04, 02-03, 01-02
Winter snow depth histories - ".CSV" file data which could look like this
"On this date" - How today compares to this date in previous years
About this page, this weather station, the pictures, and making your own weather station.
Short weather page, winter's summary (.CSV), 7 days of raw data, last 6 hours
Keeping it running: FTP lock-up watchdog log, Power lock-up watchdog log, Manzanita battery performance, System Check
Like it? This page is brought to you courtesy of the Santiam Pass Ski Patrol and their web site. If you like what you see, let them know. If you don't like what you see, use the "Email them" feedback link given below to suggest an improvement. If you don't like the weather, we may not either, but that's a whole 'nother discussion . . .
Ideas? Most of the instruments and software used to generate these weather condition pages were provided by the Santiam Pass Ski Patrol.

The precipitation sensor data is provided by the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), which maintains many "SNOTEL" sites from New Mexico to Alaska.

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Notes:
  • Other sources of information

  • 2015 08/15 - Weather Underground "local" map of current conditions
  • 2019 11/10 - Uploading raw weather data for today, one day ago, and two days ago. Tab-separated data columns, so you can "Open With" a spreadsheet program.
    - Files are uploaded shortly after the hours of 8, 12, 16, 20.
  • 2019 12/21 - Moon phase (%) is good, but the code for computing moon rise & set times never seemed to work, so try web pages like this one.
  • 2020 02/15 - Wind speed signal checked for noise causing erratic overspeed readings. Now have a two-stage low-pass RC filter going into a schmitt trigger buffer. There were no bad symptoms observed at the time, so the fix provided no proof of improvement. It's more fun to know when a "fix" actually fixes something.
  • 2020 03/01 - Snow depth sensor power supply investigated for 60 Hz noise. The trickle charger was found to be capable of inducing 42 VAC in addition to the 25 VDC on the floating battery. Added a ground bonding connection to keep the battery voltage more, well, "grounded". This probably will not fix anything, but less chaos is usually an improvement.
  • 2020 03/14 - Software update to fix snow depth reporting failed. Reverting to previous version which has data outages when large snowfall events happen during times when the sensor is inoperable. We got about 9" overnight which will not be reported until there are more observations with the snowfall than without.
  • 2020 03/14 - Software workaround: The 6 hour weather summary web page recovers from the above software bug much faster than the 48 hour weather summary web page.
  • 2020 03/14 9AM - We are also seeing a "data outage" on the snow depth sensor where no response is received when the sensor is "pinged" for a measurement.
    - This same symptom was seen on the weather station datalogger (completely different hardware and wires) a few days ago. An observer at the datalogger saw the interrogation pulse, but an observer at the logging computer never saw a response recorded. This problem "fixed itself" after several hours. Would prefer to eliminate the problem, but that takes time . . .
  • 2020 03/14 - Snow depth raw data, to investigate correlation to times & events.
  • 2020 03/14 - Not just weather, but an interesting map that has weather information embedded in it.
    • To: Hoodoo Ski Area's main page