Real Time Weather Stations on the island

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Real Time Weather Stations on the island

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Windigo (NPS): https://mesowest.utah.edu/cgi-bin/droma ... ?stn=winm4
Mt Ojibway (NPS): https://mesowest.utah.edu/cgi-bin/droma ... ?stn=OJIM4
Passage Island Lighthouse (NOAA): https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page. ... tion=pilm4
Rock of Ages Lighthouse (NOAA): https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page. ... tion=roam4

And the NPS weather page with links to the NWS Recreational and Marine forecasts, as well as the mainland airports:
https://www.nps.gov/isro/planyourvisit/weather.htm

The Windigo station is on a ridge approx 360' above the lake, not in the immediate Visitor Center area.
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The park has parts on order for the Mt Ojibway weather station. Should be back up and running soon.
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Hoping the Windigo station comes back online soon
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The Windigo station is not as exposed as any of the others? I can imagine a difference, particularly in winds, between being in a deep, sheltered cove (Washington Harbor) and up on the ridge line like Ojibway or out on an exposed rock(Rock of Ages). It’s interesting to watch the reports from the different locations.
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Post by fonixmunkee »

If you are comparing the Rock of Ages (ROAM5) and the Windigo (Ozaagaataang) weather station, you can just pretend the Ozaagaataang station is on the moon and the RoA station is on Mars.

Someone showed me how to read the Windy.com app/weather and you can really see the differences that occur east and west of the mouth of Grace harbor.
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