August 2008 - Vantage Pro2 Helps Keep Boaters Safe in British Columbia
Boaters rely on Vantage Pro2 and WeatherLinkIP. Click here for the full story.

July 2008 - Weather Wizard III Hovers Over Hovercraft Ferry
Weather Wizard III and Hovercraft get vacationers to Isle of Wight. Click here for the full story.

May/June 2008 - Vantage Pro Goes For the Gold
Vantage Pro2s help keep everybody dry and running at Olympic games. Click here for the full story.

April 2008 - Vantage Pro2 Runs (Well, Rides) Boston Marathon
Two Vantage Pro2's will be at the race this year. Click here for the full story.

March 2008 - Vantage Pro2 Plus Helps Champion Gliders Soar Safely
Vantage Pro2 watches over Australian gliding championship. Click here for the full story.

February 2008 - Argentine Vantage Pro2s Enjoy New Heights
Vantage Pro2s installed high in the Andes. Click here for the full story.

January 2008 - Vantage Pro2 Helps Make Hockey History
Vantage Pro2 helps build the Winter Classic outdoor hockey rink. Click here for the full story.

December 2007 - A Patriotic Vantage Pro2
A Vantage Pro2 in Keno, Oregon provides wildlife photo ops. Click here for the full story.

November 2007 - Wildfires Try, but Fail, to Stop this Vantage Pro2
Firefighters in Southern California fight fire at their station and find their Vantage Pro2 still transmitting after the battle. Click here for the full story.

October 2007 - Vantage Pro2 Watches 21st Century Weather for 19th Century Ship
An antique sailing ship gets a little help from a modern marvel - the Vantage Pro2! Click here for the full story.

August 2007 - Vantage Pro2 Helps Bermudans Get A Drink of Cool, Clean Water
Lucky Michael Owner lives in Bermuda, which might be heaven on earth, unless of course, you expect fresh water to flow from some local reservoir into your glass! Click here for the full story.

May 2007 - Vantage Pro2 Rows the Pacific with Roz, the Atlantic with Wave
Our brave little weather stations are going where no weather station has gone before: out to sea on solo ocean row boats. Two solo ocean rowers, Roz Savage and Wave Vidmar, are heading in opposite directions in two little boats to row across the Pacific (Roz) and the Atlantic (Wave), with Davis Vantage Pro2s on duty all the way. Click here for the full story.

April 2007 - Vantage Pro2 Measures Wind for Skywalk Construction
Are you afraid of heights? If so, here’s one adventure you better do from your computer via video! The Grand Canyon Skywalk, a project of the Hualapai nation, allows visitors to stand almost 4,000 feet above earth, on a horseshoe-shaped, glass walkway that is cantilevered out over the canyon edge. Click here for the full story.

January - February 2007 - NWS Award Winners All Count on Davis!
Storm spotters and chasers were invited to the inaugural 2006 Storm Chaser Car Show, and they brought their vans, cars, pickups, and SUVs from Kansas, Texas, Arkansas, and all over Oklahoma to show them off and try to win awards presented by some pretty savvy judges from NOAA.... All five winners use Davis weather equipment! Click here for the full story.

October - November , 2006 - Cliff-Top Vantage Pro2 Helps Lifesavers
Our UK distributor, McMurdo, thought we (and you) might like to see this cool Vantage Pro2 installation at the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI), on the north coast of Cornwall. The sensor suite is perched 200' up on a cliff...the public can access the console in a viewing gallery. Click here for the full story.

September 7, 2006 - Vantage Pro2's Help Study Urban Heat Islands in Tokyo
Global warming and environmental change is everybody’s concern, but Japan, with its small land mass and dense population has been on the leading edge of research on ways to mitigate the negative effects of these changes. One specific area of concern is urban heat islands, which affect large cities worldwide, and are especially important in Japan, with its dense population and increasing industrialization. The Japanese government is taking the phenomenon of urban heat islands seriously, and has set out to gather and analyze data in order to incorporate solutions into their urban planning, engineering, and life style recommendations. And when they needed serious equipment to help in the study, they turned to AOR, Ltd's and Davis' Vantage Pro2 weather stations. Click here for the full story.

July 21, 2006 - Vantage Pro Helps Grain Growers Grasp Gains

Farmers in Breckenridge, Michigan have a nice advantage. This Vantage Pro is set up at the Michigan Agricultural Commodities (MAC) plant in Breckenridge, and its data is available to the MAC farmers with the click of a mouse. MAC buys, sells, and stores agricultural commodities throughout the United States and Canada. Click here for the full story.

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