About This Station
The station is powered by an iEcoWitt weather station. The data is collected every 10 seconds and this site is updated every 20 seconds. This site and its data is collected using WEEWX software. The station is comprised of an anemometer, a rain gauge, a barometer, and a thermo-hydro sensor situated in optimal positions for highest accuracy possible.
About The Village of Contoocook
"I think if you hold your breath you can hear the train all the way to Contoocook. Hear it?" -- Our Town, Thornton Wilder, 1938
John Phelan,
CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Contoocook is a village and a "census-designated place" (Wikipedia), one of several villages in the town of Hopkinton, New Hampshire, USA. The village is bisected by a river of the same name, both most likely mistranslated from the Pennacook or Abenaki native languages. Water plays an important part in early Hopkinton history: the Contoocook River was the main highway for native populations, flowing from Peterborough to merge in town with the Warner River and the Blackwater River. The Contoocook flows on, merging in Boscawen with the Merrimack River, connecting river traffic to the north and, to the south, to the Atlantic Ocean. Spring flooding lead to the construction of the Hopkinton-Everett Flood Control project, a huge undertaking which flooded West Hopkinton Village and includes towns of Weare and Dunbarton, with a capacity to hold back an astounding 54 billion gallons of floodwaters.
Ponds include Rolfe Pond, Lake Josylvia, Grassy Pond, Kimball Pond and Kimball Lake.
>The history of Hopkinton is older than the United States; much is documented by the Hopkinton Historical Society. Hopkinton has preserved many historical items, including the Contoocookville Rail station, notable covered rail and road bridges.
About This Website
This site is run by Ted Roche and you can email him at "webmaster" AT "iayft" "DOT" "COM". The site was run from 2010 to 2023 by the late Keith Wallace, who provided inspiration for me to setup and run my own weather station.
This site is a template design by CarterLake.org with PHP conversion by Saratoga-Weather.org.
Many thanks to the many developers who have writen an add-on or added pages reflecting their particular interests: Rounded Corners, River Levels, etc. Many hands make light work.
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