There’s nothing wrong with the data itself (the holfuy API, or any of the downstream sources that it feeds such as mesowest or Windy). All of the data goes directly from the weather station up to holfuy only (first), and then those other downstream sources pull from holfuy.

There are occasional downtimes or outages, most especially due to some of the more hardcore weather situations that can be seen up on launch; others, due to the increasing unreliability of older cellular networks in the area (the holfuy stations connect to the internet via 2G, since the 3G network was shut down this last year). The Crestline station (also a holfuy station) connects via wifi to a router in the bunker up next to launch (the radio towers). Sometimes the internet service up there fails as well (also causing outage), and that launch gets even colder/icier/snowier weather than Marshall tends to get. Sometimes the anemometers will get iced over, so for situations like that, you might see temperature readings from the station, but no wind. To put things into perspective, we’ve had the holfuy stations (3 of them – Crestline, Marshall, and AJX) up for a few years now and have never needed to touch the stations themselves. We have had anemometers fail, but that goes with the territory.

Windgrams – they occasionally get borked from weird data in the weather models (so you’ll see a day or two with no image, or you’ll notice the wrong day applied to one that you an see), and also (rarely) an occasional server hiccup that needs to be addressed by Alan. He provides great service to that app and is very responsive to emails (in my experience).

Shots fired

As said before (forgot how many times), please lay off the name calling. No need to call the lot of us a bunch of fools – the bickering just happens to be louder than all of the other good interactions that people are having on a regular basis.

What the rodenator without the barrel attached reminds me of (perhaps the LZ is haunted by the spirits of past gophers):

Ha – alt on mine is GROUND – 17,999’ MSL and recurs every year ad infinitum.

After the great September let-down of 2023, October does seem to be giving up the goods. Another really fun day of adventuring east. Mostly smooth strong conditions with a few patches of really rowdy stuff.

After a passer-by watched Jérôme land, he offered us all a ride back to AJX, so Ben and I made expeditious descents. Once we got in the car, we saw a hockey mask in the back, so either it’s spooky season, or we were in potentially mortal peril and the guy decided he couldn’t take us all. Worked out in the end.

22 miles on my Ion 6 (low B fun machine) and a good “breaking-in” of Jérôme’s new ride.

Track log of some of us here.

More glamor shots from the day – thanks to Ben for the second one.

Great video – thanks Tim.

I eagerly await all of the engineers (bonafide and the armchair variety) to weigh in.

At first glance, it would seem that if you stick to a reputable brand that you’re getting a bit more than what the printed rating shows (rather than much less as shown with the sketchy no-name stuff).