For the life of me, I can't find the site I had bookmarked years ago on an old laptop that had ACCURATE temps for Penasco (not taken at Gila Bend!), along with water temp, wind, etc. Seems as though it was geared more towards boating enthusiasts. By the way, it’s not AccuWeather, Weather Underground or Weather.com.
Please post your favorite alternative Penasco weather source.
CASA WEEZ! Hahahah, I thought that was a joke! Just noticed that as an option yesterday. What is the story behind this weather station? (From Weather Underground.)
"Playa La Jolla, (Casa Weez), Puerto Penasco, SONORA — Current Conditions"
Casa Weez has been down the last few days, it's just been going to the default airport Penasco station. Maybe he's outta' town. Does anyone have a good source for water conditions? I know I used to read a site that had daily water temperature readings.
Unfortunately, it has been down for some time, despite the statement saying that it is back up (must have been from a previous outage). The Water Temperature reading is also from July. I get the impression that it was a manual reading.
The "Casa Weez" site appears to be very well sited (winds don't appear to be blocked), and highly reliable. Sometimes these personal weather station feeds tend to come and go. It does a good job of picking up on "Gulf Surge" events which southern Arizonans are probably all familiar with.
It would be even better if the station owner could also send his data to the "Citizen Weather Observer Program" ... this would allow his data to be fed into a stream which is picked up by Universities and National Weather Service offices. The observation would also get fed into sites like MesoWest, and fill an important data void area:
The "Station Information" on the Weather Underground page indicates they're using the Virtual Weather Station software, which I believe includes a free software add-on that allows the data to be sent to both Weather Underground and APRS/CWOP.
Someone on here hinted that they know the 'Casa Weez' homeowner. Would they be interested in relaying this message to them? If you contact me via PM, I can send you my email address, and perhaps even try to help them out.