New Buoys

[Michael]

There's another new buoy up in Boundary Bay funded by the City of Surrey...

I took the liberty of adding a link to 604windswell under "Wind Sensors"

Thanks, Keeldude and Alton. This is going to help gauging those slightly off-shore wind days in Boundary bay and even those SSE days where you want to see what's happening in the middle of the bay, I spend a lot of time out there. Like yesterday when I kept thinking if I got out a little farther there would be more wind, which wasn't the case, it just made for a longer swim! Thanks guys!

[keeldude]

Thanks for the link!

Hey keeldude

Is this the same source as Chalmers posted in Sep 2021 ?

viewtopic.php?f=12&t=3995

Apparently it is! I missed the original memo.

Wouldn’t you know it, I put the original post on the forum 2 days ago and yesterday we found out that Surrey have renegotiated the maintainence contract for the sensor and NHC didn’t get it!

It would appear that Flow Works now has that contract, and the data is publicly accessible here https://www.flowworks.com/login

Log In ID : surreyrain
Password : surreyrain

It's definitely a bit clunky to drill down to the data which is why I was working on getting a data feed for the wave and wind data. The data source is typically posted 30min to occasionally 1.5hrs late, but it does provide 10 minute resolution.

My website has been down intermittently over the last couple days as I try to figure out all the edge-cases of weird or missing data.... bear with me!

https://604windswell.ca

There is indeed that other wind station right off crescent beach (500m offshore), which I'll update as well. It lists wave data as a parameter but isn't showing any data yet.

I plan on making better historical and searchable wind plots and making the website more navigable... its a bit dense with the raw numbers lol. And there are some neat links on the links section... Storm Surge BC and MeteoGrams wind and wave forecast. Env Can is now actually providing wave forecasts for English Bay and the Strait of Georgia. I guess they are still fine-tuning it, as they ought to publish the wave forecasts on their main Marine Text forecast.

Anyway happy new year!

[JonathanP]

In anticipation of the new buoy data dropping on Environment Canada's site at some point I have decided to share a bare-bones site I created to follow some of the live data regarding the strait, such as wave height, tides, and sea temp.

https://604windswell.ca

Is this site no longer running?
I could probably add something to livepow if so. Was a nice resource

[keeldude]

Yes, 604windswell is down until further notice. I had some health issues come up and had to step away from programming and maintaining websites for a period of time. But when that changes and I get the website's back up, WTFBC will be among the first to know!

I know a contact at City of Surrey engineering who let me know that their boundary Bay live dashboard including wave conditions is online now.

https://www.surrey.ca/services-payments/water-drainage-sewer/drainage-stormwater/weather-ocean-conditions

I haven't checked it out yet but perhaps it works on a desktop.

It's too bad that English Bay and the Southern Georgia straight bouy went down. Those were pretty useful, maybe they'll come back

[JonathanP]

Ok thanks for the info. Hope your healing up.

Yes, hopefully those buoys will go back online. At least there's still halibut bank readings.