This is the response I got from Aeris when I asked them why I wasn't seeing
my own data in "Current Conditions" in the AerisPulse app:
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Nate Flohrs (AerisWeather Support)
Feb 1, 2021, 9:40 AM CST
Hi Bruce,
Thanks for reaching out to AerisWeather! For the purposes of providing
complete weather data, the Aeris Pulse app is currently designed to only
return stations that provide sky coverage information. In your location,
the nearest station that provides those details is several miles away,
which is why you are seeing those results.
If you haven't already, you may want to go to settings > data options and
select "All" as the observations source. This will ensure that the closest
station that provides sky data will be utilized.
There is an alternative solution that may help you access the data coming
specifically from your station. Because you are a PWS contributor, you are
eligible for the contributor plan from AerisWeather. It allows you to
access weather data through our API for no cost while your station is
sending information to our servers. You can find more details here.
Hopefully that helps to explain the behavior you are seeing! If you have
any additional questions, please let me know.
Thanks,
Nate
AerisWeather Support Team
https://support.aerisweather.com
On Wednesday, February 17, 2021 at 10:11:44 PM UTC-5 gjr80 wrote:
> I should add my comments re METAR is my supposition; the observation
> related fields (as distinct from API keys, date-times, software name etc)
> in the PWS Weather upload string format are:
>
> wind direction
> wind speed
> wind gust speed
> temperature
> hour rainfall
> day rainfall
> month rainfall
> year rainfall
> barometric pressure
> dew point
> humidity
> solar radiation
> UV
>
> and of course the previously mentioned 'weather' field. Provided your
> station has the appropriate sensor WeeWX will upload all of these to PWS
> Weather with the exception of month rainfall and year rainfall.
>
> Of course the other possibility is that PWS Weather could be deriving 'sky
> cover' itself though, I see no obvious source in the above fields though.
> Probably a question for PWS Weather, and if their answer is 'your station
> needs to upload it' then ask for some documentation; details of the field
> name, content, format etc because it does not appear in their PWS upload
> documentation they sent to me.
>
> Gary
>
>
>
> On Thursday, 18 February 2021 at 12:38:02 UTC+10 bchap...@gmail.com wrote:
>
>> Thank you for the explanation. I incorrectly thought that cloudcover was
>> the data expected by pwsweather. Now that I see that it is more involved,
>> I will wait patiently. The reason for my interest is that the AerisPulse
>> app gives me data from a station many miles from me when I am reporting
>> data to them. Their explanation is that they only use data from stations
>> that report Sky Cover data. All others are ignored.
>>
>> Again, thanks for the explanation.
>>
>>
>> On Wednesday, February 17, 2021 at 7:53:39 PM UTC-5 gjr80 wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Short answer is the WeeWX PWSWeather uploader does not support any form
>>> of 'sky cover percentage'.
>>>
>>> In looking at the upload string format recently provided by PWSWeather
>>> the only field I can see that might support 'sky cover percentage' is the
>>> 'weather' field which is described as ' Current weather or sky conditions
>>> using standard METAR abbreviations and intensity (e.g. -RA, +SN, SKC,
>>> etc.)'. I expect you could include cloud coverage in octas in this somehow,
>>> but I am no METAR expert. The WeeWX PWSWeather uploader does not support
>>> the weather field and there is so simple config change available to the
>>> user make it do so. It would involve writing code. I do have a task to
>>> review the various uploaders included in the WeeWX core, but that is
>>> somewhat on the back burner at present and since WeeWX does not
>>> provide/generate METAR info per se, I am not sure whether that review would
>>> result in the WeeWX PWSWeather uploader supporting the 'weather' field.
>>>
>>> As Vince said I am intrigued as to what data it is that you want to
>>> upload. I am not aware of the GW1000 emitting any sort of cloud cover data,
>>> either via its API or through any of its weather service upload formats.
>>> You mention cloudbase, WeeWX will certainly calculate cloudbase provided
>>> the pre-requisite data is available (fields outTemp and outHumidity) but
>>> cloudbase is only a theoretical value for the cloud height; it does not in
>>> any way relate to percentage cloud cover.
>>>
>>> Gary
>>> On Thursday, 18 February 2021 at 10:30:50 UTC+10 bchap...@gmail.com
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I don't know. I don't think it has anything to do with Belchertown.
>>>> pwsweather is looking for sky cover percentage. I know that a few
>>>> stations
>>>> report this and I'm wondering how it is done. All other data is
>>>> reporting. My data is calculating cloud base however, pwsweather is
>>>> looking for a percentage. Any ideas?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wednesday, February 17, 2021 at 5:59:44 PM UTC-5 vince wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Wednesday, February 17, 2021 at 1:35:41 PM UTC-8 bchap...@gmail.com
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I’m sending data to pwsweather.com using a GW1000 and I can’t figure
>>>>>> out how to send Sky Cover data. conf file below
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> Which element in which database has that data to begin with ?
>>>>> I'm sure not seeing it.
>>>>>
>>>>> Are you sure it's not something calculated magically by Belchertown
>>>>> and not actually saved in a db by weewx ?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
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