Hello, Weather! attempts to de-mystify the collection and use of weather and climate data by bringing artists, technologists, ecologists and environmentalists together around citizen weather stations. This project investigates cooperative media related to weather and climate observation and science.

Art often presents a personal interpretation of information. How does the personal expression aspect of art intersect with the uncertainties of weather and climate science? The Hello, Weather! project initiated by Andrea Polli and Chuck Varga builds on the existing international phenomenon of Personal Weather Stations in which enthusiasts worldwide combine DIY technology with organized web forums for collecting and analyzing data. The project invites artists and others to engage with the real-time data and other information available here in a variety of formats.

Five Professional Weather stations are currently in operation: two in New York City, one in Los Angeles, one in Zurich and one in New Delhi.

The stations are wireless and solar powered and transmit data to an indoor receiver that logs the data and uploads it to a computer, and data from all stations is being saved locally for archiving and use in projects.

The stations send weather data via WXsolution to one or more of three online sites that aggregate volunteer weather observer data and make it available to the public: Weather Underground, Anything Weather and The Cooperative Weather Observer Program (CWOP). In addition, there is updated online raw and custom-formatted data available.

CWOP provides a site for each station with several comma-delimited tables, rss feeds and graphical representations of the station data at various time scales: daily, weekly and monthly. They also locate the station on a variety of different maps including acme mapper, aprs, findu.com, googlemaps, pdb, teraserver, topographic and topozone.

Weather Underground provides data tables and some graphical representations, and also provides a comma-delimited file of data, xml and html objects that can be placed on websites to provide quick access to the data.

This website was designed by Andrea Polli.

Made possible (in part) by the PSC-CUNY Research Foundation, The Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology, Khoj, and the University of New Mexico