Friday, 13 April 2012

Centennial Park, Weather Station

These streaky clouds are above the Weather Station in Centennial Park. The original weather station was constructed here in 1907 to assist European settlers across Australia to understand and predict the weather. It was used to measure the minimum and maximum temperatures until it was decommissioned in 1975 and dismantled. In 2008, it was reconstructed as a permanent interpretation of the old weather station, housing information panels telling the history.

28 comments:

  1. Very nice...
    Best regards from Paris,

    Pierre

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  2. Always amazes me that you photograph popular scenes with no passers-by in them!

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  3. Beautiful skie!! Boom & Gary of the Vermilon River, Canada.

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  4. How bizarre we moderns are. We pay good money to construct a useful site, use it, tear it down, realise our loss 3 decades later, then pay good money to rebuilt the site on another location.

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  5. I don't know how these weather stations work, but his one is nice looking.

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  6. Beautiful sky, great composition, interesting information and a terrific capture/post as always, Jim! Hope you have a great weekend!

    Sylvia

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  7. Ann, maybe not as sophisticated as today's technology but I'm sure they did the necessary work.

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  8. I like it very much. Enjoy your weekend Jim.

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  9. what's the sky like today ? This is a nice weather forecast station !

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  10. Very beautiful photo for SWF,Jim!Thank you for sharing and have a nice weekend!

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  11. Looks like a beautiful day at the park, lovely sky and photo. Have a great weekend!

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  12. Beautiful shot, Jim!
    I love it...
    Greetings from Holland,
    Anna :-))

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  13. Is that what that is? Well researched, as usual.

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  14. It's always nice to preserve history for the younger generations.

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  15. Wonderful sky.
    It's great that the old weather station is preserved for next generations.

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  16. Peter, I had driven or walked past it many times and had no idea what it was. On my recent visit I decided to have a closer look and was pleasantly surprised by its purpose and history.

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  17. I like the house! A very nice photo too!!
    Enjoy your weekend!
    Pia xx

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  18. Delightful composition! Have a great weekend.

    Sunrise, please come and see when you get a chance.

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  19. Beautiful composition! I like the V-shaped streaky clouds as they echo the ^ roof of the white structure.

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  20. This is proabably the prettiest weather station I have ever seen!!! lovely skies too!

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  21. Hi very informative post on the weather, here i find a blog on development of microcontroller based weather station weather station to acquire data and plotting graph. please have a look on it. http://microcontroller-atmel-pic-avr.blogspot.com/
    Regards

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