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Sun weather station archive expanding

Okay, so it will never rival the National Weather Service, or even the BWI data available in the Almanac section of MarylandWeather.com.

DavisBut our data archive here at The Sun's little Davis Vantage Pro 2 weather station (like the one at left) is slowly expanding. We have today managed to upload measurements taken between Jan. 1, 2008 and the present, which you can access here.

Next, we plan to upload all the readings we've gathered since the station was established at Calvert & Centre streets, WAY back on Sept. 6, 2006. It's a slow process. It takes about a minute for each day of data, so we will likely have to leave the computer running overnight.

The kink in the system is that, while we're uploading, we can't post current data. That means once the old numbers are moved, we have to go back and recover the readings that we couldn't upload in real time. Then we have to upload those, which means more current data is delayed.  Arrrgghh!

So be patient with us. We're working on it.

In the meantime, if you need to know the barometric pressure at 3:10 p.m. on Feb. 16, 2008 (it was 30.31 inches), or for any other 10-minute interval since Jan. 1, you can look it up here for free. 

The Sun station data has been accessed more than 2,800 times already. Is this Weather Geek Heaven, or what?  

Posted by Frank Roylance on May 29, 2008 5:11 PM |
                    

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About Frank Roylance
Frank Roylance is a reporter for The Baltimore Sun. He came to Baltimore from New Bedford, Mass. in 1980 to join the old Evening Sun. He moved to the morning Sun when the papers merged in 1992, and has spent most of his time since covering science, including astronomy and the weather. One of The Baltimore Sun's first online Web logs, the Weather Blog debuted in October 2004. In June 2006 Frank also began writing comments on local weather and stargazing for The Baltimore Sun's print Weather Page.
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