Weather Experiments in Magic Kingdom

[wdwmagic]

This is an interesting one from Magic Kingdom today.

A couple of weather stations setup near Big Thunder Mountain. Both are Tempest.

The devices measure:

- Outdoor air temperature and relative humidity, dew point and “feels like” temperatures (heat index and wind chill)
- Station pressure and barometric (sea-level) pressure
- Wind speed, wind direction, 1 minute average and gusts
- Lightning activity (strikes and distance up to 25 miles)
- Rain onset, intensity, duration and accumulation
- DeltaT, wet bulb temp, air density
- UV index, brightness, solar radiation

 

[trainplane3]

Interesting. I picked up a Tempest about 2 years ago. Really great weather station and incredibly accurate.

 

[Purduevian]

Anyone else read the title and thought Disney was trying to make artificial clouds/rain via cloud seeding?

 

[Disstevefan1]

This is an interesting one from Magic Kingdom today.

A couple of weather stations setup near Big Thunder Mountain. Both are Tempest.

The devices measure:

- Outdoor air temperature and relative humidity, dew point and “feels like” temperatures (heat index and wind chill)
- Station pressure and barometric (sea-level) pressure
- Wind speed, wind direction, 1 minute average and gusts
- Lightning activity (strikes and distance up to 25 miles)
- Rain onset, intensity, duration and accumulation
- DeltaT, wet bulb temp, air density
- UV index, brightness, solar radiation

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This is very cool, no joke Good show Disney.

 

[adam.adbe]

Anyone else read the title and thought Disney was trying to make artificial clouds/rain via cloud seeding?

Value tier party nights come with 2" of rain. Moderate tier party nights get .75" of rain. Deluxe tier nights guarantee no rain (no rain is not actually guaranteed).

 

[Eric Graham]

Value tier party nights come with 2" of rain. Moderate tier party nights get .75" of rain. Deluxe tier nights guarantee no rain (no rain is not actually guaranteed).

Just what we want... more rain....love the ponchos!

 

[larryz]

This is an interesting one from Magic Kingdom today.

A couple of weather stations setup near Big Thunder Mountain. Both are Tempest.

The devices measure:

- Outdoor air temperature and relative humidity, dew point and “feels like” temperatures (heat index and wind chill)
- Station pressure and barometric (sea-level) pressure
- Wind speed, wind direction, 1 minute average and gusts
- Lightning activity (strikes and distance up to 25 miles)
- Rain onset, intensity, duration and accumulation
- DeltaT, wet bulb temp, air density
- UV index, brightness, solar radiation

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Maybe someone's trying to make the case that the paths approaching the ride should be covered...

 

[twilight mitsuk]

Value tier party nights come with 2" of rain. Moderate tier party nights get .75" of rain. Deluxe tier nights guarantee no rain (no rain is not actually guaranteed).

value tier comes with heat dome, moderate tier standard summer heat, deluxe tier true fall temperatures

 

[wbostic12]

value tier comes with heat dome, moderate tier standard summer heat, deluxe tier true fall temperatures

Day guests just get randomly scattered umbrellas.

 

[TrippedUp]

There is an identical station on Lighthouse Point, the DCL destination, as of last week. I thought it was odd because it looked so temporary.

 

[Nubs70]

Could just be being used to monitor atmospheric conditions in accordance with OSHA recommendations for Heat Stress and Injury Prevention.

 

[JoeCamel]

Could just be being used to monitor atmospheric conditions in accordance with OSHA recommendations for Heat Stress and Injury Prevention.

Or now that Universal ditched Twister these are the equivalent of height balloons for a weather based ride....

 

[monothingie]

This is an interesting one from Magic Kingdom today.

A couple of weather stations setup near Big Thunder Mountain. Both are Tempest.

The devices measure:

- Outdoor air temperature and relative humidity, dew point and “feels like” temperatures (heat index and wind chill)
- Station pressure and barometric (sea-level) pressure
- Wind speed, wind direction, 1 minute average and gusts
- Lightning activity (strikes and distance up to 25 miles)
- Rain onset, intensity, duration and accumulation
- DeltaT, wet bulb temp, air density
- UV index, brightness, solar radiation

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Well now I know that the weather information on the resort TV is 101% accurate.