Trinity Webcam and Weather

Welcome to the home of the Trinity website and webcam: http://trinityconservancy.org. (Note that trinityconservancy.com and trinityconservancy.net will also redirect to this site.) We are happy to finally have our own domain -- trinityconservancy!

You are looking North at Massie Ridge and Fortress mountain out the back window of our cabin at Trinity, WA.

The Davis Weather Station continues to collect good weather data. (We gave it a major refurbishing during the summer of 2019.) See the frame at the bottom of this page with the current weather information, compliments of our friend Kevin. There is also a text-based daily summary of data every half-hour here and a weekly text-based summary here. Finally, we have a NOAA monthly weather summary here.

Additionally, here is a link to the SNOTEL site relocated to Trinity fall 2010. It measures snow pack water content and current snow depth. To see snowfall over the last several hours, click to highlight "Standard SNOTEL( 2010-08-19)", "Hourly", "table", "Last 7 days", and then click on the yellow "View Current" button to finally see the hourly measurements.

Snow gauge (bottom of picture): The old gauge (on the left side with a significant left-ward lean) is a white 2" PVC pole that is exactly 12 feet tall. The markings are duct tape spaced 1 foot apart on the pole; there is no tape at the top. Calculate snow depth by counting down from the top (a little hard to see, since there is no tape) and subtracting from 12. Thus if you see 4 of the 1 foot marks showing, there is 12 - 4, or 8+ feet of snow on the ground. The new gauge (on the right) is also a white 2" PVC pole, but the markings are black paint. This pole is 14' tall and the marking at 10' is extra-wide to make it easier to see. With this guage there is a mark at the top (14'), but like the other, count down and subract 14.

Status/News

HughesNet Satellite: We upgraded our HughesNet service to Gen5 in June of 2017 and it has been reliable since then. Latencies have been pretty much as expected -- 2+ seconds -- but it has at least remained constant over the past several years. VOIP calls do work, but the callee needs patience to deal with the delays. (We have requested to become a Beta test site for Starlink. Watch for an update if our request somes through...)

Webcam: We are experimenting with a Raspberry Pi Zero as a new webcam. You can see the image at the bottom of the page. The script that updates the image is not yet reliable, so this image may be out-of-date. Note that we plan to continue the current image (ancient Logitech webcam) into the forseeable future as there are sites that reference this image. (No one should depend on this new image until we declare it stable.)

(Text updated 2020-Nov-10)