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Ansh Kumar’s weather explorer

Readings from Ansh’s backyard weather station, with his snow journal, a hailstorm drawing and photos from the Sky Scouts poster.

Archived station readings

Real measurements saved by the original SkyScouts dashboard, Sep 17, 2024 to Feb 22, 2025. Not live.

Ansh’s own records

A snow journal, a hailstorm drawing and photos.

Poster figure

A picture of a chart from the Sky Scouts poster. It can’t be filtered.

Station readings

Archived One summary per day from the readings Ansh’s station took every five minutes. Choose what to show and which dates to look at. The marker along the top shows the day of Ansh’s snow journal; select it to read the page.

The interactive chart needs JavaScript. You can download the daily readings as a spreadsheet file instead.

Live readings Current conditions from Ansh’s station are not connected to this website.

Journal, drawing and photos

Ansh’s own records From the Sky Scouts poster.

Handwritten journal page dated November 6, 2024, titled Heavy snow
Nov 6, 2024

A snowy day

Ansh’s diary describes a day of heavy snow and indoor games. Select the page to see it larger with that week’s station readings.

Drawing of a house under clouds with hailstones falling and the words Oh hail no, signed Ansh 2024
Student artwork, 2024

Watching a hailstorm

Ansh used a drawing to describe a hailstorm.

A student standing beside a backyard weather station on a lawn
Hands-on exploration

Backyard weather station

Installing a backyard weather station, as documented in the program poster.

A student reaching into a cloud exhibit at a science visitor center
Field learning

Exploring weather exhibits

Ansh at the NCAR Mesa Lab Visitor Center in Colorado, as shown in the poster.

Poster figure: hourly temperature, August–December 2024

Poster figure This chart from the Sky Scouts poster compares hourly temperature at Ansh’s station with HRRR, as labeled on the poster.

Poster chart: hourly temperature at Ansh’s weather station compared with HRRR, August to December 2024, with an average difference of 0.93 degrees Fahrenheit
Reproduced from the poster as an image. The hourly numbers and the method behind it aren’t included here, and the difference shown is not a general accuracy claim for the station.