October 13, 2024 With winter approaching, the snowcams are being dusted off and prepared for installation. You will soon be able to view them on our website. Winter and snow immediately bring to mind the High Fens and the Botrange. In the coming weeks, a weather station, also equipped with a webcam, will be reinstalled there, which will also serve as a snowcam. There are also plans to set up a new weather station with a webcam in Maspelt, a village in Burg-Reuland (a municipality located in the Eastern Cantons near the German and Luxembourg borders). With an elevation of about 500 meters, it is a strong candidate for snowfall under the right conditions, and it also offers beautiful views. The problem with the Barani weather stations continues to plague our network. A large number of Weatherwise stations are now in full production, and over the next few weeks (and months), we will install them. Stations urgently in need of replacement due to a (nearly) defective Barani Meteohelix include: Beernem, Pittem, Zarren/Kortemark, Westrozebeke/Staden, Westouter/Heuvelland, Wervik, Veurne, Lissewege/Brugge, Kieldrecht, Malderen, Bornem, Zoutleeuw/Budingen, Pepingen, Zutendaal, Bree, Heist-op-den-Berg, Ham, Oud-Turnhout, and more. In short, the situation is dire, with the failure rate rapidly nearing 100% over the past few years. In addition to replacing all problem stations, we will also equip several new locations with the latest BMCB measurement equipment. The locations currently on our list are:
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October 05, 2024 Today we have added another webcam to the page with all webcams. This new webcam is located next to our weather station at Elsenborn (Grünen Kloster), Bütgenbach. This is the location where during the month of January we also measured the lowest temperature in our country in recent years, a respectable -23.0°C.... Since this location is very remote, an energy-efficient solution was used. This means the webcam does not deliver new images every 5 or 10 minutes like other webcams, but this is done manually. We try to do this once or several times a day - depending on how interesting the weather is - so that we can still provide a representative picture of the environment.  |
October 04, 2024 The network is constantly being updated with non-working Barani-Meteohelix weather stations being replaced with our own BMCB-Weatherwise stations. Today the station at Mont-Rigi was replaced so that we still have observations as the winter season approaches and we hopefully get lots of interesting weather. The existing weather station in the south of the province of Luxembourg at Moyen (Chiny) along the Semois river also received a new station today. A few weeks back a new station was installed at Yvoir in the province of Namur and the defective Meteohelix in Faulx-les-Tombes was also replaced with a Weatherwise one. The defective Meteohelix in Archennes (Grez-Doiceau, Walloon Brabant) also received a new version.... Now that we are in the autumn season and the winter season is fast approaching, we expect more Meteohelix weather stations to go down. In other words, we are expecting busy months ahead and hope we can replace/install faster than the Meteohelix stations go down.… |
May 23, 2024 The Barani-Meteohelix weather station, which had been active in our network for several years, had broken down in recent months - like many others. Today it was replaced by a Weatherwise one for measuring temperature (air and above grass), humidity and precipitation.  |
May 23, 2024 Also today the BMCB network was further expanded. With summer approaching (or at least it should...) and the sea breeze that comes with it, the Belgian coast was chosen this time. A brand new weather station for measuring temperature - both in the air and above the grass - and humidity was installed in Westende at a distance of about 900 meters from the beach.   |
May 17, 2024 Another WeatherWise weather station has been set up as of today at Merelbeke (new location in our network), south of Ghent in the province of East Flanders. Here the measurement of air temperature and humidity as well as the grass temperature is done. With our thanks to Willy De Bosscher.   |
May 17, 2024 In Brakel, in the Flemish Ardennes, the former Barani Meteohelix weather station that had been defective for some time was today permanently consigned to the wastebasket and replaced by a WeatherWise station that will observe the weather there. Again, measurement of air temperature and humidity at 1.5 meters, grass temperature and also precipitation.   |
May 7th, 2024 Another second weather station was installed today at a new location in the north of the province of East Flanders at Stekene. Again, the temperature (shelter) and above grass is measured as well as humidity. Precipitation will be added later.   |
May 7th, 2024 Wuustwezel's Barani weather station - which had been faulty for some time - was replaced today by a new WeatherWise monitoring station. It now measures air temperature, humidity, grain temperature and precipitation.  |
May 6th, 2024 A new weather station has been added on the border of East Flanders and the Netherlands. Officially, it is located about 100 meters on Dutch territory of the municipality of Sluis (Sint-Kruis). There is measurement of air temperature, humidity and grass temperature. Precipitation measurement will follow later.   |
March 17, 2024 We say goodbye to the past. Today the club's new logo was introduced… Idea and design by Nathaniel Dessart.  |
March 1st, 2024 Our BMCB club has decided to stop offering Barani weather stations because of - in our opinion - their inferior quality. |