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Martin County, FL

Current Weather

Sun and Moon Dates

Current Tide Info

Weather Dials

Water Temperature

Averaged Images new!

(at Lake Worth)

 

 

Hobe Sound National

Wildlife Refuge WebCam

 

Bathtub Beach WebCam

 

 

Where are we?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

January 19 2006

New Camera Installation!

Features a 6 MegaPixel
Olympus SP500

 

 

 

View the Slideshows from
Hurricane Jeanne here:

 

North View

South View

 

 

Jensen Beach in Martin County, FL

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new!  1 minute of streaming video  (updated hourly during daylight)

Panoramic View from the Life Guard Tower

Click on image for high resolution (5640 x 1400pixels!!)

Click here for a slide show of recent images

 

 

Real Time 'Weather-Loop' Video (see details here)  

** Note: This can use a lot of bandwidth, so you may want to pause it if

 you leave the page open while viewing other pages

 

Most Recent Zoomed Shot looking North        10X optical zoom !!!

Click on image for high resolution
View the slideshow of recent images

Water temperature obtained from this site near Boca Raton

 


Most Recent Zoomed Shot looking South        10X Optical Zoom!

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View the slideshow of recent images

Image Archives

Panorama Jan-June 2006           North View Jan-June 2006           South View Jan-June 2006

Panorama July-Dec 2006           North View July-Dec 2006          South View July-Dec 2006

Panorama Jan-June 2007           North View Jan-June 2007           South View Jan-June 2007

Panorama July-Dec 2007           North View July-Dec 2007           South View July-Dec 2007

Silverlight SlideShow                  Silverlight SlideShow                     Silverlight SlideShow

 

  Wind Speed and Direction

 

Read up on:

Rip Currents

Tides

 

 

RainWise MKIII

Weather Station

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The WebCam tower at Jensen Beach showing (from top to bottom) the lightning protection, weather station, and camera housing on the pan/tilt unit.

Jan 25 2006

 

Estimated Cloud Height

Temperature

Jensen Beach Weather Station

 

On the graph below, there are 3 traces, red, blue, and green, that represent the peak

wind, average wind, and slowest wind during each minute in which the wind is

measured.  The farther apart the traces are, the more gusty the conditions are.

The middle graph below is the wind direction

The red trace above represents the cumulative rainfall. If it hasn't rained, then

 the red trace is just a straight line along the bottom.

   

   

Highs and Lows

Weather Dials

Last 72 Hours

 

Sun and Moon Rise and Set Times

more lunar dates and times

solstices, equinoxes, etc.

 

Night Shots

Long exposures up to 300 seconds using image stacking

see the slideshow for more details

click on image for high resolution

view the slideshow of recent images

 

Tidal Charts   

Blue=NightTime     Light Blue=Twilight    Yellow=DayTime   Speckle=MoonLight

Read this for a nice explanations of tides.
   Other excellent tides sites: www.tidelines.com and www.saltwatertides.com
 

Archived Weather Data

Jan 2002 - Mar 2003     Oct 2006    Nov 2006    Dec 2006    Jan 2007

 

Averaged Images:  Useful for Identifying Shoreline and Sandbar Position

click on the image for a higher resolution shot

click here for a slideshow of the last few months of image

May 30 2007: Weather-Loop Video added to Web PageThis is an experimental flash application that buffers the last 40 images received from the video camera, and plays them back in a time lapse manner (similar to a weather loop).  The sequence of images is 'played' every time a new image comes in.  A new video image is uploaded every 2-5 seconds, so you should see about 3-4 minutes of action.  Since the video camera is inside the same housing that the digital camera is in, you will often see the camera 'move' around, at various zoom values.   For example, when a movie is made, the video camera is zoomed in all the way.  If a digital shot is done next, the camera housing will be repositioned for the digital camera, and the video camera may remained zoomed in all the way, so all you may see are waves in the middle of the ocean.   NOT WORKING??  If the image has not updated in the last minute, try refreshing your browser (F5), and if it still doesn't update, it means for some reason, new images are not being uploaded form the camera station....could be maintenance, or a bug in the program, which should fix itself within the hour ( a watchdog circuit will reboot the system).

About this Image Monitoring Station: This station is located on top of the Life Guard Hut at Jensen Beach, just north of the Holiday Inn near Stuart, Fl  in Martin County (central Florida on the east coast). It consists of an Olympus SP500, 6 Mega Pixel digital camera controlled by custom software running under Windows XP.  In addition, there is a Sony Block low light level, low noise video camera with integrated 18x optical zoom.  Both cameras are  placed inside an environmentally protected housing on top of a precision pan/tilt unit made by Conway. A water pump, reservoir and windshield wiper system clean the glass under program control. The software controls many functions including pan/tilt positioning, camera zoom, imaging stitching, and uploads images and complete web pages to various ftp sites...all under automatically and unattended. For more information, see Erdman Video Systems.

Difficulty viewing this pageAll the images on this page should be able to be viewed easily, but if you can't see them, give us a call (305 252 9560) or email us at evs_staff@video-monitoring.com.  There are links on this page to slideshows and short video clips, for which additional programs may have to be installed.  We use 2 types of slideshows.  For the smaller images we use Flash, a product from the company Adobe, and you can go to their site at www.adobe.com and find the Flash Player and install it for free.  The slideshow used for the large panoramic view uses Java.  If you can't see it, you can go to www.java.com and download and install their player.  For Internet Explorer, you may have to change some configuration settings to allow Java to run.  You do this by going to the menu choice at the top: Tools : Options : Advanced, and scroll down to the check box(es) mentioning Java, and check them to enable them.  Call us or email us at the above numbers/address if you need further assistance.