LakevilleWeather.com is a private weather station and website serving the city of Lakeville, MN, Dakota County, and the world with real-time, accurate, and localized weather reporting. Our weather station is located in Lakeville, MN, a southern suburb of Minneapolis/St. Paul, very close to the intersection of Cedar Avenue (Co. Rd. 23) and 170th Street. (Lat: N 44 ° 42 ' 3 '' Lon: W 93 ° 13 ' 15, Elevation: 1000 ft) Weather data comes to our website from a Davis Vantage Pro2 weather station. This is the most popular and highest rated private weather equipment in the world today. The data is collected every second and the website is updated every 5 minutes. The station is comprised of an anemometer, rain gauge and a thermo-hydro sensor. Our station is rooftop mounted, approximately 35 feet above ground level.

Above is a view of the station from the Northeast Elevation. It is mounted on a standard 4.5 foot aerial mast. The station anemometer is on the very top of the mast, and includes a directional vane and wind cups. About 1.5 feet below is the ISS (Integrated Sensor Suite). The ISS contains a self-tipping rain gauge bucket that measures in 0.01" increments. Here is a closeup of the self-tipping device:

The rain collects in and funnels through the bucket, and drips into the silver cups you see in the picture above. Once the weight of the water tips the drip cup over, a magnet passes over a reed switch and sends a signal to the station. The water then drains out from the ISS.

The data is monitored, recorded, and published onto the internet via Weather Display software and the Movable Type web publishing platform. The data also gets transmitted to several different weather networks, including Weather Underground (Station KMNLAKEV2), and the Citizen Weather Observer Program (Station CW5773).

Quality Assurance data is provided by the CWOP program to lakevilleweather.com. Check our our accuracy here.