Station 46303 · measured conditions and forecast accuracy
Buoy 46303 is moored at Southern Georgia Strait at 49.020°N, 123.430°W, and is operated by Environment and Climate Change Canada. It reports hourly and measures wind speed and direction, gusts, wave height and period, barometric pressure, and air and sea temperature. This page shows what it measured, and — the part no buoy feed publishes — how far the forecast model was from it at the same hour.
Southern Georgia Strait has not reported for 2 days. Buoys are pulled for servicing and can drag their moorings or lose power. No measured conditions are shown here until it returns, because a reading that old is not a weaker version of a current one. Forecasts for the surrounding water are unaffected.
The record is still filling: 1 of 20 checked predictions so far, with 30 more recorded and waiting for the buoy to measure the hour they describe. No average is given until there are enough of them to mean anything.
Forecast skill cannot be read off a model’s own past hours, because those come from a run that has already absorbed the observations and so flatter it. The only honest way is to write the prediction down before the weather happens and score it afterwards, which is what these numbers are. A prediction is recorded once and never revised.
These 14 locations show Southern Georgia Strait’s readings as their measured conditions. Each binding was checked by hand rather than taken from whichever buoy is nearest — wind and waves do not carry across an island, and eight of the 57 locations have no buoy in reach at all.
This buoy is not operated by this site. It belongs to Environment and Climate Change Canada, and its data is distributed by the NDBC station feed. These are real-time observations with automated quality control only, not the reviewed archive, and readings change hourly — the figures above were generated when this page was requested.
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