New Ireland Weather Network

Supercell

Those of you around here long enough would remember that previous boards member Snowbie set up Ireland Weather Network several years ago .

It included a forum and a Irish "Mesomap" where people with an interest in Meteorology and had their own online weather station could automatically share their data and site links which was displayed on the map, in a manner similar to https://wow.met.ie/ .

The mesomap is part of a wider worldwide weather enthusiast amateur weather network.

Sadly Snowbie moved on to other things and that is all history now.

However thankfully now "thecivvie" has taken the time to make a new Ireland Weather Network which you can find at http://irelandweather.eu/

It would be great if we could get all the counties represented again.

The join up page is at - http://irelandweather.eu/Join.php

Its very straight forward and most personal weather station software's are supported.

If you run WeeWx on your station like myself, you'll need to install this extension - https://github.com/matthewwall/weewx-crt and then choose Cumulus as your station type on the drop down. If you need any help with that just reply to this post and I'm sure we can figure it out!

The realtime.txt this generates can also be used by the weather banner plugin if interested to make banners like the one below which utilise it:

So why not have a look and consider joining the new Ireland Weather Network.

Feel free to comment or add questions in reply to this post. Anything Ireland Weather Network related - this is the place!

Lets put Irish weather back on the global mesomap!

thecivvie

Stunning description man, hopefully the page will drive users back to our own websites unlike WOW which barely mentions the feeders.

For those interested, ignore the question about adding a page for the global map. I am asking Ken if he can remove it. He likes to keep all pages the same.

Thete is also the option to add Davis Weatherlink Live. I will create a subpage for those using WLL

DOCARCH

Well done @thecivvie and @Supercell for getting this going again. 👏 It will be a great resource.

pauldry

Ya wow is an absolute disaster of a site as I discovered during the hot snap.

This seems to work faster. I have weather station but just works by the battery so no software and not really bothered installing any.

Oneiric 3

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119407220#Comment_119407220

WOW site is borderline unusable and not very user friendly at all.

I have a weatherlink station but the whole process of putting it onto this map looks very complicated. Just can't be dealing with codes and stuff, but good luck with the site regardless, it'll be a very useful resource.

Danno

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119408430#Comment_119408430

If you uploaded to the old mesomap on IrelandsWeather.com back in the day, chances are the realtime.txt is still going up to your site.

What is your weather website showing your live data?

I see my station is on the new map, I have been uploading realtime.txt for around a decade now! The lads found it and used it. Hat tip to them!

Danno

Forgot to add... Johnstown Kilkenny (Davis Pro Vantage 2) is uploading here: laoisweather.com/johnstownkk/realtime.txt

Oneiric 3

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119408912#Comment_119408912

I think that I recall that I did, but it was a long, long time ago now. My current data gets uploaded to the 'WeatherLink.com site:

Weather Conditions - Galway (weatherlink.com)

so would be a different method entirely to what I did use so old text file would be pretty much useless now I reckon.

Danno

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119409023#Comment_119409023

Think @pad199207 uses WLL and uploads too.

Supercell

Is the Kilkenny weather website owned by @RobertKK who posts here occasionally?

Would love to have more on on the map, come on Corkonians, for the "real capital" its a poor show!!

DOCARCH

I think Kilkenny is @StratoQ

Danno

StratoQ is the Kilkenny City station owner.

RobertKK has one in the northeast of the county as far as I know.

thecivvie

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119408430#Comment_119408430

DM me you wll page and I will sort it.

thecivvie

For those with Weather Link Live, use this link to get the embedded link that the software needs to grab your data

https://support.davisinstruments.com/article/bjrba9dm50-how-can-i-show-my-data-on-my-personal-website-do-you-have-an-api-or-a-widget-option

If you don't host a website, I will created a page with the embedded link on the irelandweather page for you

CrowdedHouse

Oranmore will be off air for the next week due to repairs/renovations going on near it.

(Took the opportunity to give it a clean, I thought the fan was on the way out but I discovered corrosion on the plug/socket. Cleaned and back to full speed)

thecivvie

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119528808#Comment_119528808

Thanks for the update. I also need to maintain one of mine shortly

thecivvie

There is a nice spread of sites now on the page. I have messaged a couple more but got no reply

Supercell

Great stuff, hopefully the map will get filled out more and more in time :)

mickger844posts

Only just saw this post today. I used to upload to the old Irish Weather Network when i started my station back in 2010. My data is being used already from Waterford City but i would encourage more people to join and we can fill up the map with real time data.

CrowdedHouse

Indeed because the WOW site is poor, readings can be up to an hour out of date. The official stations even more.

ednwireland

i planning to put up my new station soon. its an Ecowitt WS2910 is that suitable it's up in sw donegal.