DL East Pier weather station is no more

HeidiHeidi

Aww crap. This was really useful!

Logged onto dlharbour.ie this morning to see what the wind is doing before I head out racing - and it's all changed.

Eventually found this message, saying they'll be taking their weather (forecasts, not readings) from wunderground.com.

<Dún Laoghaire Harbour Company regret that we are unable to continue to provide the previous online weather service due to the high costs involved in the provision and maintenance of the system. We understand that the sailing community rely on accurate weather information and in the future we will be providing weather through the free, online service at wunderground.com.>


Booo!

miss no stars

sounds like it's just temporary and they'll be adding it as a station in wunderground, same data just at a more affordable level?

HeidiHeidi

miss no stars wrote: »

sounds like it's just temporary and they'll be adding it as a station in wunderground, same data just at a more affordable level?

To the best of my knowledge, wunderground is only a (very good, admittedly) forecasting service. What will be missed here is the actual weather readings which were a really useful addition to all the forecasts available.

Hope I'm wrong though.

miss no stars

Fairly sure it has actual weather station data.

http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/about.asp

HeidiHeidi

miss no stars wrote: »

Fairly sure it has actual weather station data.

http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/about.asp

Well, I stand corrected, and am only delighted to be wrong!

I hope you're right, and that they do feed their data through wunderground, although I have my doubts. But maybe I'm just an irredeemable cynic where DLHC is concerned! Again, I hope I'm wrong.

ahun

It was available for a few days here: http://dlharbour.co.uk/a/
but its password protected now

In DL we are now without the invaluable weather information, as the other website's wind data is not exactly relevant and accurate to use for sailing in the harbour and Dublin bay.

ahun

up and running here

HeidiHeidi

ahun wrote: »

up and running here

Nice one!

Thanks for the link, delighted to have the info again

miss no stars

http://www.dlhweather.com/

From the site:

News

Due to the costs of running and maintaining this website and the weather equipment we use, we will shortly be introducing a subscription fee to the site. Without a subscription you will only gain access to some of the information on the “Home” page. Subscribers will gain access to the rest of the site. We intend to keep the cost of this to a bare minimum, which we hope will encourage all our visitors to join.
Membership will give access to our comprehensive weather details, 6 hour wind graphs, 24 hour and 28 Day Graphs including: Temperature, Wind, Gusts, Pressure, Solar Hours, and more, Tabulated Data Pages, forecasts, tide heights, Events Calendar, Classified Ads, Suggestion & Comments and Posts …… With Yearly Graphs, Statistical Graphs, Data Searches, Historical Data and Graphical Comparisons, Weather Trends, Forums and other features already planned for the near future.

The “membership” scheme is in it’s final testing and discussions at the moment and is planned to be set live within the next few weeks.

We hope that all our visitors will join up and so enable us to continue to supply this valuable resource.

Talent

Wind reading equipment is either very expensive or very unreliable as we discovered in Skerries where a few gales wrecked one on the club roof.

But up-to-date reports are useful and I will always remember the remark made to me by a DMYC member when I phoned years ago from well inland before deciding to travel to DL for the Frostbites. Unknown to me it was blowing a gale as he explained with the following unforgettable comment: "Well, you'll have a great reach across to the National, but I don't know how you'll stop!"