Picton Harbours maintains three Gill GMX500 Maximet Weather Stations in the Marlborough Sounds.
Weather stations are located at:
Weather is forwarded to the Weather Underground, stored in a data warehouse, and provided to partner organisations. Partner feeds are available as NMEA via a UDP stream or TCP server, as XML, or JSON.
NMEA Format
Three sentences are produced once a minute. Each is followed by a CR/LF.
The first line contains the wind bearing, and average speed in knots
The second line contains the IMO three-second maximum gust bearing in degrees and speed in knots
The third sentence contains the relative humidity in percent, the temperature in degrees celsius, the barometric pressure in pascals, and the relative humidity as percent.
Data is available for:
Northern Entrance on port 45051
Tory Entrance on port 45050
Waikawa Marina on port 45054
NMEA format sentence example:
$WIMWV,332.0,T,05.33,N,A*22 $WIMWV,322.0,G,09.22,N,A*3C $WIXDR,H,092,P,RH,C,014.1,C,TEMP,P,1.025,B,PRESS,C,009.9,C,DP*08
JSON Format
A JSON packet is produced once a minute in the following format. As per the NMEA format:
wind directions are in degrees
wind speed is in knots
wind gust is the IMO three-second maximum gust
relative humidity in percent
temperature is in degrees celsius
barometric pressure is in pascals
relative humidity is in percent
JSON format example:
{ "sensor_id": "pcn.westhead.gmx500.1", "timestamp": "2021-12-02T09:43:51Z", "measurement_id": "0f726c8da32d5720fd6171aedf1c4b46", "avg_temp": 18.1, "avg_pressure": 1017.9, "humidity": 115.0, "dewpoint": 13.4, "wind_avg": 1.21, "wind_dir": 329.0, "wind_gust": 1.75, "wind_gust_dir": 319.0 }