![]() Email messages will be addressed promptly after that date. All of these weather reports are available online as shown in the Dec 11 news item below.Ģ000 - 12,068,305 (partial year starting 3/26/00)ĭue to the holidays, CWOP Support staff will be unavailable to register new members or to respond to update requests and questions until January 6, 2014. This is a list of the number of APRS weather data reports received at since CWOP was started. The new primary server mentioned in the Dec 11 item below is shown here. Steve is still working on the findU code that drives the display so expect changes in the next few weeks and if you have comments, let him know with the link at the bottom of the display. You can see Colorado cold and Florida warm and by inserting your ID into the URL, you can see your own weather. The new findU panel display feature announced in the Feb 01 post is now documented here.Ī new findU feature to display current data from your weather station is being developed. It builds on a survey that many CWOP members participated in sometime ago. The paper What Drives the Quantity and Quality of Online Citizen Science Participation? is now available. At 15z on, the average reader score was reported as 59%, and on it was reported as 58%.ĭavis instruments has issued a number of firmware updates to their weather stations products. ![]() Weather knowledge quiz online from the Christian Science Monitor. Note that a safety harness was needed because of the height. This article (and pictures) shows Rick changing out equipment located in Nova Scotia. Retired NWS meteorologist Rick Decker, CW6014, has installed and continues to help maintain about ten CWOP stations on the coast in Maine and Eastern Canada. Recent NOAA/MADIS outage was apparently due to Chinese Hackers. Enter Matt's IDĪs has been the case in previous years, there was a "Christmas effect" this past year clearly shown by this graph of new CWOP sign-ups per day for the last quarter of 2014. Matt Cooper, DW8108, was recently in a Chicago-area TV promo. This recent NOAA news item tells of the MADIS move from research to operations and mentions CWOP. Wind article that mentions CWOP as "still going strong today". It has all turned out better than we thought it would. CWOP is the largest network in the MADIS surface data set, both in terms of members and observations. So far, well over 30,000 have joined and over 12,000 stations are currently sending data, about 100,000 packets per hour. We (Steve Dimse and I) expected maybe a hundred people or so would join and send data to Steve's server for transfer to NOAA. Many thanks go to Phillip Gladstone at CWOPįor his dedication to providing the needed accuracy and quality checks for the amateur weather observer.Fifteen years ago today, Sept 10, 2000, the CWOP member database was started, entries from a few interested hams were entered, and data started flowing. Three main goals: 1) to collect weather data contributed by citizens 2) to make these data available for weather services and 3) to provideįeedback to the data contributors so that they have the tools to check and improve their data quality. The Citizen Weather Observer Program (CWOP) is a private-public partnership with the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration. This means that your sensor is reading a variable higher than expected. If the above errors are NEGATIVE, this means that the analysis variable is LOWER than the reported variable. This means that your sensor is reading a variable lower than expected. If the above errors are POSITIVE, this means that the analysis variable is HIGHER than the reported variable. Otherwise, a red x-mark will appear indicating that your data has not passed quality control. If the Madis rating is within the acceptable limits, a green check will appear. The MADIS value represents the percentage of observations that have successfully passed the MADIS QC checks. Predicted data based on surrounding stations (C1792 Analysis in red). The above charts represent data reported to CWOP for Saratoga, CA (C1792 actuals in blue) with the is a proud member of the Citizen Weather Observer Script courtesy of Michael Holden of Relay Weather.
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