This camera faces west onto Puget Sound from Magnolia in Seattle, about 70 feet above sea level and about a mile south of West Point.
See notes on how to operate this with your browser below.
Watch the clouds for general wind direction and water surface for whitecaps. NOTE: in a tribute to Murphy's Law, the laptop powering this camera dies whenever I'm out of town and unable to reset it. The pics will stay at the same date and time in the past. When that happens, hopefully the Law won't extend to the computer that generates the image below, taken from another structure at the same location but facing NW towards the West Point lighthouse. My neighbor has kindly given permission to remove the tree branches, which I'll hopefully do before July '08. Refresh this page to get a new shot.
Here's a third camera for backup (click thumbnail to expand): . This is a Dlink-2100 network camera, as compared to the regular video cameras used with capture hardware for the two above. The Dlurk, unfortunately, has terrible quality and no telephoto.
And finally, if you need to know whether there's been an unreported radiation leak, check my geiger counter. The normal background counts per minute should average around 11.5. I've been told that readings doubled in Seattle during Chernobyl.
Important wind info links: NOAA marine forecast for Puget Sound, West Point current winds and NW Wind Reports Page. On the latter, look for increasing gradients between Olympia and Bellingham to cause more wind; decreasing to shut it off. A 2mb (or .06") difference between OLM and BLI will power a 6.5 sail (or 15m2 kite) in Puget Sound. Another gradient page is here. Note the hours are in GMT; subtract 7 in the summer, 8 in the winter. Caution: NOAA's West Point winds are often an hour or more out of date (iWindsurf doesn't admit this). Other useful info from Weather Underground:
Operation Notes:
Images on the looped image at the top of this page are uploaded to the brichmond site twice a minute and placed in first in-first out filenames. Then the picture displays batches of 3 or more of the images every 5 seconds, with .5 seconds between the pictures in the batch. After a minute or so, all three pictures should be new. N.B: this won't work right unless you pull down the Tools list, and then click Internet options; settings; check for newer version of page every visit to the page. This'll make sure that the looping doesn't work off the computer's cache, and instead uses new images taken by the camera. You might have to reload once in a while if the image update on the server gets out of synch.
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