About Us
Website Purpose
This site is dedicated to the pursuit of education through the study of meteorology. GlendoraWeather.com was originally conceived to aid in the instruction of the State of California elementary school curriculum standards. During the process of researching for the purposes of this site development, many other educational resources were discovered. I encourage educators to browse through the Related and Educational links on each page. The Meteorological data contained on this site is uploaded from a weather station atop Cullen Elementary School.
This web site is owned and operated by Mrs. Rachel Mandala, a 2nd grade teacher at Cullen Elementary School, Glendora U.S.D. Our weather data is published to Globe Program, Citizen Weather Observer Program, WeatherUnderground, WeatherForYou, AnythingWeather, AWEKAS and the Southwestern Weather Network.
This website is provided as a community service and is non-profit. It is supported by Glendora Unified School District, educational grants and Rachel Mandala.
The operators of this web site are not responsible for inaccuracies in the weather data.
DO NOT base life or health decisions by the data on this site or any other internet site!
Weather Station Equipment
- Weather Station: Davis Vantage Pro II Plus ® Wireless with Fan-Aspirated Radiation Shield
- Lat./Lon: N34° 8.5416', W117° 51.2949'
- Altitude 878' MSL
- WX Software: Davis WeatherLink version (5.8) and Weather Display V10.37P-(b20)
Cullen Weather Station
Acknowledgements
We at GlendoraWeather.com express our sincere appreciation to the following companies and organizations for their generous support and assistance!
- Glendora Unified School District
- Rotary International (Glendora)
- Saratoga-Weather.org
- Southwestern Weather Network
- Carson Industries LLC
Website Design
This website is based on a purchased template. Conversion to PHP and overall website integration was done by Ken True of Saratoga-Weather.org. The site is maintained using Dreamweaver 8 (website maint) and Xara Xtreme (graphics).
PHP scripts and other design elements used in this site were kindly provided by:
- Kevin at TNETWeather.com (GlendoraWeather logo, Included file PHP site design template, weather random facts script).
- Ken at Saratoga-Weather.org (drop-down menu, homepage dashboard, NWS forecast, Advisory, Area discussion, SPC mesoscale discussion, WU Radar, Buoy Mesomap, SWN Mesomap, NOAA/EPA UV forecast, AirQuality from AQMD.gov, USGS Earthquake, NOAA-IOD) and page PHP automation on many of the other pages.
- Mike at Long Beach, WA Weather (multifunction-image-handler script used in traffic page, wind-rose graphics).
- Larry at St. James, FL Weather (NHC advisory script, WXGraphic script)
- Jonathan at Sigalert.com for allowing our use of the LA current traffic map on our website.
Glendora Random Weather Fact
Orographic Enhancement
(also called Orographic Precipitation) -- Precipitation which is caused by hills or mountain ranges deflecting the moisture-laden air masses upward, causing them to cool and precipitate their moisture. In Glendora, this occurs when warmer, subtropical storms travel northward over Glendora. As the airmass approaches the foothills, the airmass is pushed upward by the rising elevation of the foothills. As the airmass increases in altitude, the clouds are cooled and heavy rains result. Strictly speaking, orographic enhancement refers to the precipitation directly attributed to the mountain relief, and not the total amount of precipitation received in a given area.
