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Historical buoy data #27

Closed kkoch closed 7 years ago

kkoch commented 7 years ago

-----Original Message----- From: Bob Grupp [mailto:rwgrupp@aol.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2017 7:57 AM To: Kathy Koch kkoch@limno.com Subject: Buoy 45022 historical data

Good Morning Kathy,

I follow data from NOAA buoy 45022 in Little Traverse Bay on Lake Michigan between Petoskey and Charlevoix. My house is on the shore directly south of the buoy.

Last night the wave height was recorded above 13 feet, 13.5 at its peak, I believe. That’s extremely high, and I’d like to compare that to historical data. Can you point me to where I can find historical data for wave height from that buoy or a nearby spot?

Thanks very much for any help you can provide.

Bob Grupp

Rwgrupp@aol.com 231-347-6996

kkoch commented 7 years ago

KK response (with a reminder help from G.Cutrell that UGLOS gives us this capability):

Hi Bob. I think this is the best way for right now >

You could go to the glbuoys.org legacy site uglos > http://uglos.mtu.edu/show_pic.php?station=45022 and choose the wave height graph icon to the left of the parameter or scroll down and choose the option to download data at http://uglos.mtu.edu/select_range.php?station=45022 ). Both of those give you an option to put in a time range. Even though the selection gives you back to 2009, I saw some anomalies - so best to probably start with 2011.

So for example I put in the range for a year and you can definitely see that for that timeframe, yes, today was a peak > image

If I go to the data download from 2011 to today and sort by wave height, yes as you surmised the max is showing as today at 3:20 with about 13.5 ft.

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We are working on a capability from the glbuoys.glos.us site to add this or a similar capability before next buoy season so definitely keep an eye out.

Kathy