Hi All -

I am a long time lurker of this site and recent tailwheel endorsed private pilot in Denver Colorado. I created a simple web app to aid my own flight planning, and since a few locals found it useful I wanted to offer it up to anyone interested who may be flying through the area.

I am capturing and graphing weather trending data for many airports located in Colorado (and some outside) and have been capturing hourly since April. A few locals and I have found it useful to see how the pressure is trending and when the calm winds are usually found at various local airports.

http://www.COwx.net

If you find it useful, enjoy!

-dave

Wow, nice work Dave

Holy cow that's neat! Good work!

that's cool, if not for the time for it i'd say go for a larger area.

ExperimentalAviator wrote:that's cool, if not for the time for it i'd say go for a larger area.

What are your favorite local airports (that shows up on aviationweather.gov)?

that's cool, if not for the time for it i'd say go for a larger area.

Or an app that others could input airstrips/airports into to customize for other areas.

SkySteve wrote:

that's cool, if not for the time for it i'd say go for a larger area.

Or an app that others could input airstrips/airports into to customize for other areas.

I have been playing around with this actually. The only thing holding me back right right now is that I need to sort out the input validation code to make sure what someone types in is sane (state, city, airport code, Lat and Long in decimal format are the only required fields really)

The only other limiting factor is that not all awos stations report to aviationweather.gov and I have to manually check to make sure a desired airport code has wx data. The flip side is that (at least locally) many of our high mountain passes report wx conditions (as well as other odd non-airfield locations) so it gives a pretty good overall picture of weather patterns if you browse through the data as a whole even where there are no "airports".

This. Is. Awesome.

Thanks!

Nice work, Dave. Can you add the wind direction into the trend data?

soyAnarchisto wrote:Nice work, Dave. Can you add the wind direction into the trend data?

Yeah -- I want that in there too and have been trying to get it to show up in the rollover...

motosix wrote:

ExperimentalAviator wrote:that's cool, if not for the time for it i'd say go for a larger area.

What are your favorite local airports (that shows up on aviationweather.gov)?

Salem-SLE, oregon show's up, is Corvallis-CVO possible ?

ExperimentalAviator wrote:

motosix wrote:

ExperimentalAviator wrote:that's cool, if not for the time for it i'd say go for a larger area.

What are your favorite local airports (that shows up on aviationweather.gov)?

Salem-SLE, oregon show's up, is Corvallis-CVO possible ?

Absolutely. I added and after a few days the graphs will start filling in.

Unfortunately, since the world revolves around my timezone in my mind, the times are shown in Mountain instead of Pacific. Also, when you first go to the site it centers on Denver, not Oregon. Maybe down the road I will have to add in the ability to localize it to your specific location...

soyAnarchisto wrote:Nice work, Dave. Can you add the wind direction into the trend data?

My lunch gave me inspiration and I was able to figure out how to get the wind direction added into the rollover for you Greg. Enjoy!

that's great dave thank's, what about cloud ceiling's ?

Piling on here, EXCELLENT dave. Big thanks for this. For more qualitative information here's a link to quite a few airport cams, mostly in the Rocky Mountain Region, but also Johnson Crick. I sometimes find it helpful to visually see what's going on out there, and see who's on camera:

http://www.airportview.net/

Thanks. cubscout

Great info! Any chance we could link this on FlyColorado.org?

Thanks, Matt

ExperimentalAviator wrote:that's great dave thank's, what about cloud ceiling's ?

CLOUDS!? We don't have no stinkin' clouds in Colorado!!



(That is one of the few things I do not parse out of the awos data just yet unfortunately. I will see if I can get that in at some point for you poor people that have to deal with all of that silly water vapor. )

motosix wrote:I will see if I can get that in at some point for you poor people that have to deal with all of that silly water vapor. )

Let them eat cake!

Nice job - this is very cool!

mountainmatt wrote:Great info! Any chance we could link this on FlyColorado.org?

Thanks, Matt

Feel free. In fact, if you want to embed an IFRAME right in the site in a smaller window, go right ahead.

Or you have a techie on your side, I wrote a quick public API to allow me to access the data from the backend that collects it every hour. You could use it to put a ticker/graph/whatever for specific passes with trending weather without being forced to display the Google Maps interface. I am just brainstorming; I am happy to help you guys out however you like.

(Patrick R knows about this and has been wicked helpful btw)

I see you got the cloud ceiling on there