UK Marine Weather Observations from 69 Stations Over a Rolling 7-Day Period

69 marine stations across the UK provide surface weather observations for 32 parameters. The data is collected from moored buoys, light vessels, and ships with automatic weather stations and is available as CSV files for a rolling 7-day period. It is published by the Met Office under a CC BY-SA license.

Use Cases

• Monitor real-time weather for a specific marine location based on the 32 available parameters.
• Plan maritime business operations using the latest 168 hours of observations from static buoys and light vessels.
• Analyze short-term marine weather patterns from the network of 69 observation points.

Strengths

• Data from 69 distinct marine observation locations.
• Measures 32 different weather parameters.
• Provides a consistent rolling 7-day (168-hour) window of recent data.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Met Office

Collection Method

Observations from moored buoys, light vessels, and ships with automatic weather stations.

Time Range

Rolling 7-day period.

Freshness

Rolling 7-day period; update frequency likely high but unspecified.

Geography

UK marine locations.