All Official Stations missing data?

[Shaun Faulkner]

Hello,

When loading graphs or tables for the last year, for the official weather stations only, does anyone know why from May to August for every station there data is missing?

Also if you do know why it is missing, can you explain why the graphs are trying to show data, while the table view simply says there is no recording, usually when there is no recordings the graph shows nothing, but on these periods there is a graph generated, it just doesn't follow the normal oscillation.

Below is a sample of some stations, they all seem to be the same.

[Weather Observations Website]

Hi Shaun,

 

There was an issue with the timestamp on our official feed which meant that the API was not collecting the data. There were a few occassions within this period of time that the data fell within the time tolerence and the data was present. The graphs are designed to show trends in data and how the elements have changed over the period, for example temperature over a 24 hour period should allow you to identify when the sun rose based on the graph trend. In this case as large parts of the data is missing the trend line is of little value.

 

Hope this helps

 

Dom

[Shaun Faulkner]

Hello,

Considering what you have said, does that mean the data is actually missing, completely gone, or just not been parsed to the website? If it is not actually missing, will this data eventually be provided so we can view it on the website?

Shaun

On Monday, December 21, 2015 at 9:36:57 AM UTC, Weather Observations Website wrote:

Hi Shaun,

 

There was an issue with the timestamp on our official feed which meant that the API was not collecting the data. There were a few occasions within this period of time that the data fell within the time tolerence and the data was present. The graphs are designed to show trends in data and how the elements have changed over the period, for example temperature over a 24 hour period should allow you to identify when the sun rose based on the graph trend. In this case as large parts of the data is missing the trend line is of little value.

 

Hope this helps

 

Dom

[Weather Observations Website]

 

Hi Shaun,

 

The WOW website is visualising what is also publically available on the Met Office website and through its DataPoint service (http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/datapoint/product/uk-hourly-site-specific-observations) the Observations are present in the Met Office data base. WOW had the issue in pulling the observations at the correct time, and the issue was not related to missing data.

 

As this data is available elsewhere we are not at this time looking in to repopulating the missing values. WOW is in the process of being redeveloped (see post at the top of the list) during this the official data may be looked at

 

Thanks

 

Dom