Re: [weewx-user] Impending shutdown of wow.metoffice.gov.uk service

Thu, 25 Sep 2025 02:20:13 -0700

@Ton,
I think you may have hit the nail on the head with your conclusion.

https://claydonsweather.org.uk

On 25 Sep 2025, at 10:09, steepleian <[email protected]> wrote:

The wow.metoffice.gov.uk is still alive and kicking. There was a change of process which meant users had to migrate their accounts by a certain date or lose access. No suggestion it was closing.
https://claydonsweather.org.uk

On 25 Sep 2025, at 09:13, Ton vanN <[email protected]> wrote:

Have tried to trace back, but absolutely no mentioning at the WOW-partner-websites of MetOfficeUK (= KNMI and MetEireann) about an upcoming shutdown for WOW-UPLOAD, causing serious doubt about the report at GitHub.
Or is it misinterpretation related to a change in the datahub providing DOWNLOAD of meteodata from MetOfficeUK?

Can somebody point/recall to a weblink to the said shutdown-message from MetOfficeUK, as confirmation of the source-info? 
Lacking that confirmation the creation of the new upload to wow.meteo.be looks like a solo-action from KMI/RMI for creation of a parallel WOW-channel. 


Op donderdag 25 september 2025 om 07:15:06 UTC+2 schreef John Smith:
I now only have 'altimeter': 'baromin=%.3f', I removed the pressure line

On Thu, 25 Sept 2025 at 14:56, John Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
Yes that seems to work...

On Thu, 25 Sept 2025 at 06:29, Tom Keffer <[email protected]> wrote:
I see one possible point of confusion. For baromin, they say

baromin
number

Relative Pressure i.e. pressure adjusted to sea level (Inch of Mercury)


This seems like they expect an adjustment only for altitude, not temperature. If that's the case, then the correct WeeWX observation type would be "altimeter", not "barometer".

@John Smith : could you try making the switch and see if that makes a difference in your results?

On Wed, Sep 24, 2025 at 3:15 AM Glenn McKechnie <[email protected]> wrote:
Spent some time trying to understand this and what might have changed, We were using absbaromin to get the corrected readings when it was first implemented, and as John said this was because baromin gave readings that were too high. That now seems to have flipped, we're back to ridiculous highs again.

We started back around the 16th, and all the pressure data prior to the 19th @ 19:45 is missing for Aus. So ? ; one of life's little mysteries I guess.

Rather than questioning my sanity any further, I've checked out the development driver for restx.py and am using it in place of the previous one.

Now barometer = baromin works, as does pressure = absbaromin

We are back to sane values. The development driver works.

Comparing the output to the official BOM values from the local airport, I'm within range.
They are at 435 metres, I'm at 455 metres - close enough


Cheers
 Glenn

Various WeeWx addons at
https://github.com/glennmckechnie


On Wed, 24 Sept 2025 at 19:24, Graham Eddy <[email protected]> wrote:
ditto. just waiting for it to settle, then deploy
⊣GE⊢

On 24 Sep 2025, at 6:10 pm, 'steepleian' via weewx-user <[email protected]> wrote:

I am a current WOW user and intend to continue with the new service.

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