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21-07-2006, 14:42
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Phuket on the map - help please!
Anyone who knows latitude, longitude and elevation for Phuket/Patong Beach? I guess elevation is close to 0 as we are close to beach.
I am currently setting up my weather station and need that info for correct sunrise/sunset info. 
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21-07-2006, 15:07
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Or see here
Location and Boundaries Phuket is an island connected by bridges to southern Thailand's Andaman Sea coast, in the Indian Ocean, lying between 7'45" and 8'15" north latitude, and from 98'15" to 98'40" west longitude on the map. Phuket, Thailand's largest islands, is surrounded by 32 smaller islands that form part of the same administration, with a total area of 570 square kilometers. Measured at its widest point, Phuket is 21.3 kilometers; at its longest, 48.7 kilometers. it is bounded thus:North Lies The Pak Prah strait, spanned by two bridges running side-by-side, the older Sarasin Bridge, and the newer Thao Thep Krasatri Bridge. South Is the Andaman Sea. East Is Phang-nga Bay (In the jurisdiction mainly of Phang-nga Province). West Is The Andaman Sea. Geography About 70 percent of Phuket is mountainous; a western range runs from north to south from which smaller branches derive. The highest peak is Mai Tha Sip Song, or Twelve Canes, at 529 meters, which lies within the boundaries of Tambon Patong, Kathu District. The remaining 30 percent of the island, mainly in the center and south, is formed by low plains. Streams include the Khlong Bang Yai, Tha Jin, Khlong Tha Rua, and Khlong Bang Rong, none of which is large. Climate Phuket's weather conditions are dominated by monsoon winds that blow year round. It is therefore always warm and humid. There are two distinct seasons, rainy and dry. The rainy season begins in May and lasts till October, during which the monsoon blows from the southwest. The dry season is from November through April, when the monsoon comes from the northeast. Highest average temperatures, at 33.4 degree Celsius, prevail during March. Lowest averages occur in January, when nightly lows dip to 22 degree Celsius. From : http://www.morethailandmap.com/Phuket_Guide.cfm
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21-07-2006, 15:19
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Nicke , although the detail is not very good try Google Earth , will give you Lat/Long for your area . Just had "rough" look for centre of Patong Beach , got very accurate details. Lat : 7 degrees 53' 43 N Long : 98 degrees 17' 42 E You could probably get a pretty good fix on where you are looking for.
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21-07-2006, 15:20
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Yea I would believe anything other than something created by microsoft.
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21-07-2006, 15:23
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It has seemed to me that April is the hottest month. March didn't seem nearly as bad.
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21-07-2006, 16:00
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Was just quoting a website... My first two posts as it says was taken from microsoft encarta world atlas 2000. So should be pretty accurate. But then again it was the 2000 version...
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21-07-2006, 17:18
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What kind of weather station did you get ??
I saw a really cool bit of kit that links in with your comp etc on a home net..
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21-07-2006, 22:12
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Thanks for the help.
I bought a Vantage Pro2. And yes, I will be using it for my weather page with real time statistics for Patong Beach. Once I have one year database, I can start to compare month by month with previous years. So it will be interesting.
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21-07-2006, 23:05
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21-07-2006, 23:32
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I think that was the one I looked at also.. With the weather exchange network signup.. Thought it looked like a cool geek toy..
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21-07-2006, 23:34
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I dont belive this stat.. While it got said and then repeated and touted I have read other stats that said the move was either nil or insignificant. If Phuket moved in relation to the mainland 40cm why didnt sarasan bridge crumple ?? It doesnt have expansion points (only concrete / temp ones).. I slept through the event.. While I may have slept through a slight temor I would not have slept through a 40 cm move.. I just doubt this data.. I think it was said and then jumped on by media and is not correct.
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22-07-2006, 01:45
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Its cool, I have a stand alone LCD console + running a weather program in the background on my notebook now, fun to keep track of changes and weather forecasts, lol. The current forecast is increasing clouds and possible rain within 6 hours, that message wasnt there some hour ago.
Will also be interesting to see how much rain we get various days. Quote:
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22-07-2006, 01:58
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Looks like IJ will not be happy you come up with this only now... ...or was it actually him giving you that thought ;-)
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22-07-2006, 02:02
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If you have a subscription access to Nature (rather than Google):
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Initial movement (and it should be noted that 'Phuket' did not move, it was the entire plate upon which Phuket sits that moved - the Sunda plate that carries most of Thailand and all of the Thai/Indonesian Peninsula) was 27cm (co-seismic), followed by further shifts (post-seismic) over the following 50 days totalling 7cm. Between February and June 2005 drift continued. The authors' website (http://www.lr.tudelft.nl/live/pagina...2aef3f&lang=en) reports: Quote:
This latter ('increased to 40cm') is, of course, not peer reviewed so perhaps you could be forgiven for questioning the 40cm figure and sticking to 34cm.
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22-07-2006, 02:12
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OK that I can swallow a bit more..
Will have a look at where the sundra plate ends as thats where the action should have been in compression etc..
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22-07-2006, 03:39
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thought the action was around Bangla !!!
Nicke think your elavation would not be mean sea level,but probaly around 1-2m above sea level if you were MSL would be under water half the day !!! So this weather station does it compute data which you input,or uses the net ?
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22-07-2006, 03:49
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These kind of weather boxes seem to be sensors that have a wired or pref wireless link to a data output LCD giving current and forecast.. They sense and log barometric pressure, rainfall, wind speed and direction, humidity, etc depending on models..
You have a nice 'weather report and forecast' LCD panel and can log everything on the PC also.. Then the bit I like a lot also is theres online software that gets everyones results and creates a accurate sensing databse all over the globe.. Collabrative efforts like this will mean more accurate and detailed readings. I looked at one as my old fella is a bit of a weather hawk and likes to have a barometer etc on the house.. Was thinking of a present so I dug some stuff online but it looked a bit techy for him.. Nearly sold myself on one tho..
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22-07-2006, 04:25
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I used 6m as elevation, but now when I think about it is is probably closer to 10 or so. That value is used to adjust the barometer.
I had this idea for a long time but didnt find the solution to have a dialup modem online 24hrs to upload data appealing. But now whith ADSL and when I remembered my original idea I ordered one. But the one I had in mind in the past was a very basic one, not like the Vantage I bought now. Its a wireless solution and very easy to install without cabling and such. To be able to upload to internet for live stats was my main criteria, as I think it can be useful for a lot of people and also give some interesting stats. Will also share my data with Weather Underground if I can get that working, as I read some people had problems. Quote:
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22-07-2006, 05:56
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22-07-2006, 09:44
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One site I was recently told about is windguru.com designed for windsailing / Kite surfing / Sailing etc.. What I like is it has a Google Earth KMZ file system you can download and then by clicking the WG icon on GE it will open the wind forecast in the browser pane of GE..
I have said before how much I like GE and building tools into it like this with weather data etc is really slick.. Maybe soon we will be able to overlay satellite cloud images and data on the GE maps.. Show windspeed predictors and use GE as a platform to display other weather forecast data.. Does anyone have good sites for satellite mages of weather activity ?? Storm tracking that kid of thing.
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22-07-2006, 12:10
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Let's see shouldn't someone be going to bed by 9:00am hmmmmmm.
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22-07-2006, 12:49
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