We share data with these Partners
In the world of weather stations there is a lot of cooperation and exchange of
information. Below is a random, and not exhaustive, list of commercial
organizations and associations where Mid-South Weather may share data. This
station shares our data on these websites, if the first few
words of each paragraph appear as a link. The organization’s website can
be reached by clicking on their logo. Mid-South weather at that partner‘s
site can be seen by using the
text link at the very
beginning of the partner’s description.
AWEKAS is
an acronym for
Automatisches
WEtter
KArten
System (= automatic weather map system) and is,
as the name suggests, a system which produces overview maps from the
weather data provided by participating private weather stations.
The data is made available to AWEKAS by the weather station operators who
upload a small text or CSV file to their own website. AWEKAS then collects
this data automatically, and processes it to provide up-to-date maps.
AWEKAS works automatically and provides every second current maps about
temperature, wind, precipitation, barometric pressure, and maps with
current weather conditions and weather warnings.
CWOP
is a group of ham radio operators and other private citizens mostly around
the USA that have volunteered the use of their weather data for education,
research and use by interested parties.
It is a public-private partnership with three main goals:
- to collect weather data contributed by citizens;
- to make these data available for weather services and homeland
security; and
- to provide feedback to the data contributors so that they have the
tools to check and improve their data quality.
In fact, the web address, wxqa.com, stands for weather quality assurance.
PWS
Weather® (associated with HAMweather and
WeatherForYou) is a group of companies providing millions of forecasts through the
main site every month, images (or Weather Snapshots) for tens of thousands of web
sites around the world and full custom-branded weather pages for other web sites
designed to match their look. Over ten thousand stations are now registered to
participate in the personal weather station program, now known as PWSweather.com.
Weathercloud
® is
a real-time weather social network formed by more than 4,500 weather observers
from around the world. It is based in the European Union, is available in 10
languages, including English, and has very nice graphics. Our data is available
as one of the icons on the map page at WeatherCloud.net. Hover your mouse over the
icon near Germantwon/Collierville to see our data display.
UK Metoffice - “The Weather Observations Website” reflects
recent advances in technology and how weather observations can be made.
At the same time, the growing world of social networking online makes it
relatively easy for anyone to get involved and share their weather
observations. The Met Office is helping to co-ordinate the growth of
the weather observing community in the UK, by asking anyone to submit
the observations they are taking. This can be done using all levels of
equipment, so there are no cost restrictions.
Weather Underground
® is probably the “most well
known” cooperation between personal weather stations. Originally from the
USA but they is now providing free, real-time online weather information to
millions of Web users around the world. They are committed to delivering the
most reliable, accurate weather information possible. Their state-of-the-art
technology monitors conditions and forecasts for locations across the
world.