About This Station
The station is powered by a Davis Instruments Wireless Vantage Pro2 Plus weather station, which is comprised of an anemometer, a rain gauge, a thermo-hydro sensor, UV and solar radiation sensor. The data is collected using several weather station software applications and the website is updated every 10 seconds.
Data from PlanoWeather.com is submitted to the following:
Weather Underground: KTXPLANO60
Citizen Weather Observer Program (CWOP): DW2893
PWS Weather: KTXPLANO60
Community Collaborative Rain, Hail, and Snow Network (CoCoRaHS):
About This City
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Plano is an affluent northern suburb of Dallas, Texas. Located mostly within Collin County, the population was 222,030 at the 2000 census, making it the ninth-largest city in Texas. According to a 2008 census estimate, Plano grew to 267,480 residents, making it the 70th most populous city in the United States. Plano is within the Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area, colloquially referred to as the Metroplex. The city is home to many corporate headquarters, including Ericsson Inc., Rent-A-Center, Crossmark, Perot Systems, HP Enterprise Services, J.C. Penney, Frito-Lay, Cinemark Theatres, Dr Pepper Snapple Group and Siemens PLM Software.
In 2005, Plano was designated the best place to live in the Western United States by CNN Money magazine. In 2006, Plano was selected as the 11th best place to live in the United States by CNN Money magazine. Plano schools consistently score among the highest in the nation. It has been rated as the wealthiest city in the United States by CNN Money with a poverty rate of less than 6.4%. In 2008, Forbes.com selected Plano, University Park, and Highland Park as the three "Top Suburbs To Live Well" of Dallas. The United States Census Bureau declared Plano the wealthiest city of 2008 by comparing the median household income for all U.S. cities whose populations were greater than 250,000. The annual Plano Balloon Festival and the Plano International Festival are two of the city's premiere cultural and entertainment events.
About This Website
This site is a template design by CarterLake.org with PHP conversion by Saratoga-Weather.org.
Special thanks go to Kevin Reed at TNET Weather for his work on the original Carterlake templates, and his design for the common website PHP management.
Special thanks to Mike Challis of Long Beach WA for his wind-rose generator, Theme Switcher and CSS styling help with these templates.
Special thanks go to Ken True of Saratoga-Weather.org for the AJAX conditions display, dashboard and integration of the TNET Weather common PHP site design for this site.
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