Incorrect station name
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The correct name for station EW8287 should be Kelly Lake. Currently it is labeled Willow Lake. There is a true Willow Lake a little farther north, and calling this station ‘Willow Lake’ is misleading.
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Hi, I checked recently for a similar station in the U.S. which I found in Windy on my path in the Southern Pacific Ocean! I learned that it was not Windy's fault but station's holder's mistake: if the information in https://madis-data.ncep.noaa.gov/index.shtml is wrong, it will likely be wrong in Windy. Unless they have a direct connection to each station owner, and each of them would type their data for 100th time in Windy.com...
All the stations near Willlow AK US are showing in Windy like this:
If I hover over the other stations, it is always the same "Willow" (no Lake in the name). I am on a desktop browser. Perhaps the "Lake" appears on other platforms?
On https://madis-data.ncep.noaa.gov/MadisSurface/ I get:
Likewise, all stations in Willow are showing "Willow AK US", no "WIllow Lake" for NOAA, either.
One could ask the station holder to update the name into the MADIS database? Unfortunately, the NOAA form does not allow it (https://madis.ncep.noaa.gov/cwop_updForm.shtml) - only city, state and zip code are requested.
How could Windy fix this? No way, I am afraid - the stations are managed by station owners, not by Windy. I ended up turning off the PWS stations after a suggestion from a kind person in the forum, since their location inaccuracies (among other mistakes) make them just noise generators on my display:
