Good read on the ABC today about Australia's declining weather observation stations - and the important work that historical climatologists like Linden Ashcroft do, unearthing old records of weather obs.

[michcampbell@fediscience.org]

@SeaFury sending you the best vibes for the End of (PhD) Times

[michcampbell@fediscience.org]

@david the BOM data infrastructure is an asbolute nightmare

I don't know anyone to contact, @ibk or @adamhsparks might have some idea about how to get the obs to them

[adamsteer@mapstodon.space]

@SeaFury @michcampbell

...in these cases I always wonder "what was the disagreement with ACCESS or ECMWF?"

sending PhD finishing strength!

...and yes, especially in [expensive/difficult] to sample climate systems its already happened that we get "...but your observation is wrong the model says..."

[michcampbell@fediscience.org]

@dharmadan @SeaFury

Unfortunately I don't think this is the answer. Relying on corporations to provide a service isn't a robust solution. If this data was contributed to the BOM, that would be amazing though!

[michcampbell@fediscience.org]

@dharmadan @SeaFury

We just need the BOM to modernise (slim chances of that haha)

[adamhsparks@rstats.me]

@dharmadan @michcampbell @SeaFury unfortunately, I’d not use the words BOM and “open source” together

Edit, hah! Saw the reference to {bomrang}

[adamhsparks@rstats.me]

@michcampbell @david @ibk no idea.

[michcampbell@fediscience.org]

@pewnack oh I love that!

[michcampbell@fediscience.org]

@ibk @david @adamhsparks

I heard a rumour once that the Tully LPO fudged the numbers to steal the 'wettest town in Aus' crown from Babinda - rumour was once the posty retired there was a step change in the precip

No idea if true, but I badly want it to be!

[ox1de@cyberplace.social]

@michcampbell for us peeps, there’s network here to share rain gauge measurements

https://www.cocorahs.org/