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
SEVERE WEATHER
Most of the severe weather is seen in the LA Metro area, is caused by micro bursts--not tornadoes. A "micro burst" is a small area of rapidly descending air beneath a thunderstorm. When the descending air hits the ground, it quickly spreads out in all directions, causing very strong, straight-line winds. These winds are commonly as strong as 40-60 mph but can exceed 100 mph at times. Micro bursts occur over a rather small space-scale, typically the area affected is less than 2.5 miles in diameter.
