Strange station...

[valorn]

Hi,

I’ve noticed that among other real stations, with data according to my own position, there is an strange station.

What is happening?

I winder if windy is having bad predictions next to my area because of the former...

Thanks

[Tomber42]

These are often faulty PWS which will not be used for weather models

[idefix37]

@valorn
This strange weather station is a buoy and when looking at details on it (by clicking on it) it does not seem very reliable.
Furthermore this weather buoy is not at sea, but on the land !

In fact weather buoy 61001 is a french buoy located near Nice in Mediterranean Sea ( We have seen several weather buoys with a wrong position on Windy probably due to database error? ).
Here the longitude coordinates are West instead to be East.

Right position:

Wrong position:

[idefix37]

@tomber42 said in Strange station...:

These are often faulty PWS which will not be used for weather models

PWS? Personal Weather Station? You are right when looking to some Madis stations on east Florida coast showing 1000kt winds ! :-)

But buoys are normally not Personal Weather Stations.
In the Phone App, as shown by @valorn, the Weather Buoy is identified with a « Personal » symbol

But with a « Buoy » symbol on Desktop.

[ivo]

Hi. Started to watch this thread. Will check buoys location.

[idefix37]

@ivo
Good idea !
Here are 2 other topics concerning the same subject, I mean incorrect buoys position.
https://community.windy.com/topic/6486/incorrect-weather-buoy
https://community.windy.com/topic/6250/buoy-report-is-wrong-or-the-reported-location-is-wrong/2
And there are several other buoys which apparently show wrong wind figures, but I don’t know if this is due to a wrong position or to bad reported values.