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Man times flies. I know most AWOS’s were upgraded to 3PT for precip ID and temp remarks (LCI and EEN got it up here), but I thought it was more recent than that. But now that you mention it I do remember the old 20 minute obs that used to come out of there with the original AWOS. BTW, whatever happened with the 25k ceilometer rollout? I thought that was happening 10-15 yrs ago and instead only some of the manned sites report/augment it in. There’s nothing more stupid in weather reporting than reporting an overcast layer at 13kft as “CLR”
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Fireworks can F off
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AWOS is pretty bad…especially when Tds start getting up near 70°. Then it seems like they start going up 2° for every 1° reality as they get oversaturated. It gets easy to pick out the ASOS and AWOS stations in IA when they get one of their big summer corn field dewpoint pooling events. ASOS ends up 25-27C and then AWOS is in that 31-32C area. It’s funny seeing 92/89 obs in the afternoon. I remember that JFK day and that it was a high dew day overall. Lots of 77-79 readings and spotty 80+ in the late afternoon down the coast of NJ/DE. JFK was in line with 77-78 most of the day and then had a couple of hours get into the low 80s…82 and 84 on the hourlies IIRC. The temp went down briefly before a slight rebound before evening. There were some TCu around too with the breezy S flow off the water. Maybe a little evap cooling putting a little extra moisture in the air? Not sure. But I’ve seen spikes like that from manned stations pre-ASOS days too with temp recovery after showers/storms.
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Refreshed…it’s all the sites mesowest has. ASOS includes the 5 min data. https://www.weather.gov/wrh/hazards?&zoom=9&scroll_zoom=false¢er=43.329173667843904,-71.68579101562501&boundaries=false,false,false,false,false,false,false,false,false,false,false,false,false&tab=observation&obs=true&obs_type=air_temp&obs_popup=false&obs_density=10&obs_provider=ALL
