About This Station

This station is privately owned and operated. It is not affiliated with the City of Camarillo or Ventura County. It was originaly born in the San Fernando Valley near the 101, 170, and 134 interchange as the Studio City Weather Center in the early 2010's. The station moved to Simi Valley and became known as the Simi Valley Weather Center in 2014. Now, after settling in Camarillo in 2017, CamWX was founded with the goal of bringing high-quality weather information to the community of Camarillo and the surrounding Ventura county area.

Where is it Located?

The station is located in Camarillo Heights near the intersection of Amber Drive and Tanglewood St.

What Powers It?

The station is powered by a Davis Vantage Pro2 Plus weather station. The data is collected every 2.5 seconds and the site is updated every 10 seconds. The station's data is collected using Weather Display Software. At the same time, our realtime data is shared with the Citizen Weather Observer Program, the UK Met Office, Wunderground, AWEKAS, Windy.com, Weathercloud, and PWSweather. The station is comprised of an anemometer, a rain gauge, a thermo-hydro sensor, a barometric pressure sensor, a solar energy sensor, and an ultra-voilet sensor situated in optimal positions for highest accuracy possible.

In addition to real-time data provided by the on-site weather station, CamWX gathers forecast data from the National Weather Service, with a specific focus on the Camarillo area. NWS Hazard products are gathered from the National Weather Service API data feeds and updated here on CamWX.com every 60 seconds. As these bulletins are received, we instantly alert our subscribers via email and text message.

The station owner is a trained SKYWARN weather spotter, contributing to the National Weather Service's boots-on-the-ground awareness in the area, and is also a volunteer reporter for Watch Duty, a non-profit, non-partisan, and non-government organization focused on disseminating public safety information in real-time from verified sources.

About This City

The California city of Camarillo, located in Ventura County, is nestled in a coastal valley 10 miles from the Pacific Ocean. The city is situated about 50 miles northwest of Los Angeles and 40 miles south of Santa Barbara. Running through Camarillo is U.S. Route 101 (also known as the Ventura Freeway), the city's principal thoroughfare. Camarillo is also easily accessible to California State Highways 126 and 1 (the Pacific Coast Highway). Nearby communities include Thousand Oaks (to the east) and Oxnard (to the west).

Founded in the mid-19th century by Adolfo and Juan Camarillo, owners of the Rancho Calleguas which comprised much of what is now the city, Camarillo owed much of its early development to the Southern Pacific railroad's choice of the site as the location for one of its depots. For several decades, development proceeded slowly but the advent of the Ventura Freeway, completed in the late 1950s, set the stage for an ensuing period of growth. In 1962, the 3M Corporation chose the city as the home of its Mincom and Magnetic Tape Divisions and in 1964, Camarillo became incorporated. The conversion of the naval operation at nearby Point Mugu to the Pacific Missile Test Center (now known as the Naval Air Warfare Center, Weapons Division) and the creation of associated civilian labs spurred employment and further growth. The city today is an attractive bedroom community combining easy proximity to nearby industry with a smog-free semi-rural living environment.

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Acknowledgements

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Special thanks go to Kevin Reed at TNET Weather for his work on the original Carterlake templates, and his design for the common website PHP management.
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Special thanks go to Ken True of Saratoga-Weather.org for the AJAX conditions display, dashboard and integration of the TNET Weather common PHP site design for this site.
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