WEATHER CAM
Weather Camera Captures 20-Year Timelapse of New Zealand Skies
A vintage setup in Lower Hutt has recorded two decades of daily skies, demonstrating extreme hardware endurance.
A south-facing weather camera operated by Trevor McGavin in Lower Hutt, New Zealand, has successfully captured a remarkable 20-year time-lapse of changing skies. Recording a low-resolution 640x480 image every day at noon since June 24, 2000, the project offers an unprecedented look at long-term atmospheric shifts.
Captured using a 1990s-era StarDot Technologies WinCam Live camera via a serial RS232 interface, the device has survived decades of exposure to the elements and remains operational. The resulting footage plays back at 25 frames per second, condensing twenty years of daily documentation into a seamless visual archive.