How the Site Works

The data is collected and stored at the station. Usually once every hour the data is transmitted via the VHF radio and telephone equipment and inteserted into a database. The web server is an Apache powered web server run on a Red-Hat Linux system. Most code on the website is written using a combination of HTML and PHP. Various scripts that help to run the site are written in Perl. The code is programmed to dynamically query the database (using MySQL) to find the most recently inserted data for the station. Case statements within the code then determine which color should be displayed with the data to show the timeliness.