Author: Ari Rosti

Weather Station Nagu is again reporting all measurements, after Vantage rain collector was connected online again just after midnight....

After troubleshooting the outage, the initial reason turned out to be the Tempest sensor unit being stopped working. Switching it off and on did the trick. In the mean time, Station Master had done some reconfiguration to weewx server, and due to that, rain measurement from old Davis instrument is not currently working. Since...

The reason for outage has been clarified: the Tempest went offline just before noon today. To troubleshoot it, Station Master must climb to roof and try to reset it. This will be done on Sunday....

There is an outage due to problems with station’s weewx server. Station master is examining the issue....

Almost a year ago, Flightradar24 stats of aircraft detected within 400 km radius from Nagu showed the substantial drop of air traffic. Pre-COVID-19 daily figure was about 750 aircraft a day, and in April 2020 the figure was a bit over 200 (https://rosti.fi/saa/flightradar24-statistics-2/). Some recovery has happened. For quite a long time now, the...

There is now page NOAA Annual Statistics (CSV) from where you can copy-paste NOAA Annual Stats in CSV (Comma-Separated Values) format. So it is now easy for example to get the data to Excel. In Excel, you can parse the pasted CSV data to columns using Data-Text to Columns command and defining comma as...

NSS Webcam will be offline for some time due to construction work going on at NSS site....

Today, solar radiation reached to over 200 W/m², though sky was not even completely clear! It has to do with the sun rising higher and higher on the sky each day on our latitudes. Tempest has now been fully powered for many days, which is great. It is unlikely it will drain its batteries...

Today WeatherFlow Tempest got enough solar power to charge its battery enough to resume normal functionality. Immediate indicator of this is the availability of gusts, which is not shown when Tempest operates in power save mode and sampling frequency is too low. Let’s hope we get sunny days for now on to keep Tempest...

Update issues again… temperature and humidity measurement seems to stuck from time to time. The reason is Home Assistant that should update these. Station Master switched these to be taken from WeatherFlow Tempest, but there is the risk that it will go offline due to power failure–there has not been much sunlight lately available....