About This Station - About This Website - About Commerce City / Reunion
Weather Station Status |
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| Console Battery Status: | 0.0 |
| Thermometer / Hygrometer Battery Status: | 100.0 |
| Rain Guage Battery Status: | 0.0 |
| Anemometer (Wind) Battery Status: | 100.0 |
About This Website
This website is owned and maintained by a Reunion, Commerce City resident as a hobby more than anything. The Oregon Scientific weather station console receives data from the various sensors. This console is then connected to a Dell Dimension 4600 computer with a 3Ghz Pentium IV processor and 512MB of RAM running Windows XP Professional. A software program called Weather Display captures all the data and then in turn uploads the information to the web server (hosted by Denver Web Host).
Computer Status |
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| Current Server Uptime: | 3 Days 20 Hours 47 Minutes 20 Seconds |
| Current Server Free Memory: | 267.476 MB |
| Weather Display Start: | 7/26/2010 at 6:15:43 AM |
| Data Packets Received From Console (since last WD start) |
31924 |
This site is based on a template design by CarterLake.org. Special thanks go to Kevin Reed at TNET Weather Ken True at Saratoga Weather for sharing their knowledge of PHP, AJAX and various other features that this site uses. Significant knowledge and troubleshooting help has also been gained from the awesome users on the Weather Watch forums.
About Reunion & Commerce City
Commerce City, Colorado is a suburb of Denver stretching from a few miles northeast of downtown Denver to more than 10 miles further northeast. The pioneer town of Derby, which was not much more than the site of a Burlington Railroad Depot, was platted out to form a town in 1889. It failed to take root, though, and was abandoned within two years. The surrounding Adams County area remained largely agricultural, with slow growth and occasional small settlements. One of these, with a few stores serving the wheat growers and dairy and hog farmers, was Commerce Town. In the 1920s it was an unincorporated settlement near what used to be Derby.
In 1930, the Continental Oil Company opened a refinery at Commerce Town. The refinery was followed, later in the decade, by grain elevators. Then, in World War II, the Army started building up the Rocky Mountain Arsenal east of Commerce Town.
In 1951, the City of Denver was considering annexing the entire Commerce Town area, so the 300 residents of Commerce Town voted to incorporate. When Commerce Town itself annexed the adjoining Derby area as well as the communities of Adams Heights, Dupont, Irontree and Rose Hill in 1962, its population grew enough to qualify it as a city, and Commerce City became its official name.
In recent years, Commerce City has experienced tremendous growth as it annexed land in unincorporated Adams County and expanded its borders. Today the city is undergoing an extensive revival as new businesses and new residential areas are sprouting up in these newly incorporated areas. ReunionWeather.com is in one of these new developments, Reunion, in the northeast area of the city. Commerce City was in fact recently named one of America's Fastest-Growing Suburbs by Forbes magazine coming in at # 16. To learn more about Commerce City, please visit their web site at: http://www.ci.commerce-city.co.us.
| Current Population | approx. 45,000 |
| Date Founded | March 24, 1970 |
| Land Area | 65.5 square miles |
| Elevation | 5200 ft. |
| Latitude/Longitude | 39.808N/-104.933W |
| Average Annual Precipitation | 15.81 inches |
| Average Temperatures in January | High 43°F Low 15°F |
| Average Temperatures in July | High 88°F Low 59°F |
| Average Yearly Days of Sunshine | 300 + |
For more information on the Denver and Colorado climate, please see our Climatology pages.