Send your weather observations to CWOP automatically

Pro Weather can relay your personal weather station observations to CWOP, the Citizen Weather Observer Program, automatically. After you register with CWOP and receive your station identifier, you enter it once in the dashboard; the hosted publishing pipeline then formats each current observation and submits it on the regular refresh cycle, with no extra uploader process on your side.

CWOP is the one community network with a genuine public-interest argument. It is a free, non-commercial volunteer program that forwards personal station data into NOAA’s MADIS system, where it reaches National Weather Service forecasters, emergency managers, and researchers within minutes and supports forecast verification and mesoscale analysis. Official observation sites are sparser than most people assume (in many regions the nearest professional station is an airport tens of kilometres away), which is exactly the gap volunteer stations fill, and the National Weather Service actively encourages owners to join.

Registration takes about fifteen minutes through the sign-up form linked from wxqa.com and requires no ham radio license: non-amateurs receive an identifier such as CW1234 or DW5678, while licensed amateurs may use their call sign. Have your latitude, longitude, and site elevation to hand, since CWOP needs all three. Sending an observation every 5 to 15 minutes is the norm on the network, and pushing faster adds nothing; the Pro Weather relay follows your site’s refresh cycle, which sits at the fast end of that range.

Your website stays the primary home for the station: the permanent archive, charts, records, and station background live on your own address, while CWOP, Weather Underground, and the other supported networks receive the current conditions in parallel. CWOP itself offers only a minimal station page, so the two roles complement each other rather than compete.