About This Station
The station is powered by a Davis Instruments Vantage Pro 2 wireless weather station. It consists of a remote anemometer located above the roof line, plus a rain gauge, thermometer and hydrometer. The latter are housed in a fan-aspirated radiation shield mounted about 12 ft. above ground. The rain collector is thermostatically heated in order to measure the moisture content of frozen precipitation. Data are collected using Weather Display Software.
Ligntning is detected with a Boltek StormTracker detector. Lightning data are collected and analyzed using NexStorm software from Astrogenic Systems.
About This Town
Suffield is located on the Connecticut River between Hartford, Connecticut, and Springfield, Massachusetts. The settlement started in 1670, after Major John Pynchon, a fur merchant from Springfield, paid the Indians thirty pounds for a six-mile tract of land known as Stony Brooke Plantation. A thickly wooded area between Springfield and Windsor with a narrow meadow provided a land route connecting Springfield and Windsor. This route was called the Hampton Path (usually thought to include Hill Street, Remington Street, South Street, and possibly other roads). The local Indians used this land primarily as a hunting ground and preferred camping by the Congamond Lake and Manatuck Mountain areas to the west. The Massachusetts General Court authorized Pynchon's committee of Springfield men to settle a town on the "West sid of ye Ryver Connecticott towards Windsor." They stipulated that in five years twenty families were to settle there and that a minister be maintained. (By a surveying error in 1642, the Suffield region was thought to be included in the Massachusetts colony.)... (Source: SuffieldTownHall.com)
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