Who runs it
This weather station is privately owned and operated by Greg Allshouse. It is not affiliate with The Villages, Florida's Friendliest Hometown!
About This Station
This is my forth (4th) location to setup my weather station, the first was in western Pennsylvania, two (2) in Colorado and lastly here in central Florida. This station is powered by an Ambient WX-2902A. The data is collected every 15 seconds via an ecowitt GW2000 and then collected using WeeWX Software,the site is updated every minute. The station is comprised of an anemometer, a UV sensor, a solar intensity sensor, a rain gauge and a thermo-hydro sensors situated in optimal positions for highest accuracy possible. (as my HOA will allow)- Station hardware: GW2000
- Server uptime: 1 day, 22 hours, 3 minutes
- WeeWX uptime: 1 day, 22 hours, 3 minutes
- WeeWX version: 5.3.1
- Belchertown Skin Version: 1.6
- YOUR OWN STATION ID on Weather Underground
- YOUR OWN STATION ID on CWOP
- Thanks to Pat at BelchertownWeather.com for this amazing website for weewx!
- Forecast data Powered by Dark Sky
- Earthquake data from USGS.gov Earthquake Catalog Developer API
About This City
"The Villages" is a census-designated place (CDP) in Sumter and Marion counties in the U.S. state of Florida. It shares its name with a broader master-planned, age-restricted community that spreads into portions of Lake County. The overall development lies in central Florida, approximately 20 miles (32 km) south of Ocala and approximately 45 miles (72 km) northwest of Orlando. Harold Schwartz, a Michigan businessman, began selling land tracts via mail order in The Villages area in the 1960s. He and his business partner, Al Tarrson, were forced to close this aspect of the business following the implementation of a 1968 federal law banning real estate sales by mail order. Stuck with considerable portions of Florida land, in the early 1970s, Schwartz and Tarrson began the development of a mobile home park, Orange Blossom Gardens, in the northwestern corner of Lake County. By the early 1980s, the community had sold only 400 units. Schwartz bought out Tarrson's interest in improving the business and brought his son, H. Gary Morse, on board in 1983. Morse noted that the thriving retirement communities (such as Del Webb's Sun City developments) offered numerous well-maintained amenities to the residents. They also had diverse and nearby commercial development. Morse began to upgrade the development significantly. Their sales improved in the mid-1980s. Schwartz began to buy large tracts of land in nearby Sumter and Marion counties for future expansion. In 1992, Morse officially changed the overall development name to The Villages. The development is still controlled in all significant aspects by descendants of Schwartz and Morse. Information for "The Villages" taken from Wikipedia at this links "The Villages", FLStation Software Information
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