About This Station
Live Plover Weather is a non-profit Weather Station, owned and operated by Timothy A. Bubla and is located in South Plover, WI. We are funded by Donations from the public viewers.
Live Plover Weather began recording 24/7 data for the National Weather Service in 2001. This station, designated callsign "PLOW3", records and reports Plover Wisconsin's 24 hour weather observation data to NWS Green Bay every morning at 7 am. These reports consist of Hi/Low Temp, rainfall, snow fall, snow depth, frost depth, soil temps at 2,4,8,20,40 and 60 inches, weather summary, humidity, monthly snow, and monthly rain totals. This daily data is used by local Portage County famers, Del Monte, construction companies and utility entities for planning purposes.
The station is powered by a modified Oregon Scientific 918/964 Wireless weather station. The data is collected every 10 seconds and the site is updated every 20 seconds in real time. This site and its data is collected using Weather Display Software. The station is comprised of an anemometer, a heated rain gauge, a NWS manual 6 inch rain gauge with overflow core, a 6 position soil depth sensor array, a 60 inch Flurazine dye frost depth meter, snow on ground (SOG), Snow collection and a thermo-hydro sensor situated in optimal positions for highest accuracy possible.
Our Live Plover Weather Station is an AWS (Automatic Weather System) which automatically transmits live data to Weather Underground (KWIPLOVE1), CWOP/APRS (CW0617), HAM/Weather4You (KWIPLOVE1) and this website.
Our Live Plover weather station reports daily 24 hour observation data and Severe Weather data to WSAW TV-7 in Wausau, Wi
About This City
The area which later became Plover was selected as the county seat of Portage in 1844. The election for the county seat only noted the general location of an unsettled area around present-day Plover. Until the area was settled, county business was actually conducted in the community of Rushville. The Plover area was platted in 1845, and received a post office at the same time under the name of "Plover Portage." The name of the post office was changed to "Plover" in 1850. In 1857, State Senator Luther Hanchett of Plover introduced a bill to incorporate the Village of Clayton in the community; he later amended the bill to make the name the Village of Algernon. That bill passed the Wisconsin Legislature, incorporating the Village of Algernon on March 6, 1857. (Algernon was probably named for Algernon B. Crosby, a postmaster in Portage County.) On May 4, 1858, the name of the village was again changed, this time to the Village of Stanton. And in 1864, the name of the village was finally changed to Plover. In 1868, the county seat was moved to Stevens Point, following a vicious battle in newspapers and the state legislature. The Village of Plover was dissolved. Government of the area fell to the Town of Plover. Plover was again incorporated as a village on March 8, 1912 by court order, after area residents appoved in an election. This latest incorporation would not be long lived, as Plover was again dissolved on October 7, 1931 after another election. An attempt at re-incorporation failed in 1965. Plover re-incorporated, for the third time, on September 28, 1971. The vote for incorporation was narrow: 311 for and 289 against. The population of the village at that time was 2618. It incorporated about 6.75 square miles (17 km2) of territory, and increased to about 7.25 square miles (19 km2) in 1981, after annexation. Annexations continued nearly every year until the present.