I’m Benjamin Raisanen. I started St Nicholas Weather in 2021 as a hobby. The station initially was comprised of a 5-in-1 integrated set of instruments. Since then, a full replacement of the sensor suite has enabled collection of solar radiation data and increased the accuracy of readings.
Following our successful migration away from the Met Office, our data is held and processed by the Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium‘s open-source observation, data collection and API programme (WOW-BE).
The Met Office has taken the unfortunate decision to cut ~1700 hyperlocal sites from their monitoring, data collection and API programme, which affects St Nicholas Weather.
We have migrated successfully to the Meteorological Institute of Belgium’s WOW project, which is community-driven and fully open-source. This has enabled the development of more powerful integrations which will appear across our website with time, starting with the main dashboard.