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Ishika’s weather explorer

Pick any day to see what Ishika’s backyard station measured. Then read what she wrote about it.

Station: Aug 2024 – Feb 2025
66 journal pages
Drawings & photos

Real readings from the past. Not live.

Pick a day

Each square is one day, colored by how hot it got. Tap one to see the numbers, or jump to a record breaker.

The calendar needs JavaScript. You can download the daily readings as a spreadsheet instead.

Data lab: chart every day, compare rain, wind and more

Ishika’s weather journal

One season at a time. Tap a page to read it.

Summer 2024 8 pages

Fall 2024 13 pages

Winter 2024–25 9 pages

Spring 2025 19 pages

Summer 2025 8 pages

Fall 2025 9 pages

Drawings & photos

Crayon drawing of rain falling from grey clouds, with a lightning bolt, onto green grass beside a tree — Aug 18, 2024
A rainy day
Drawn two days after a storm dropped 1.41 inches of rain on Aug 16.

Round drawing split in two: a green Earth with a fruit tree, and a hot orange Earth with factories and a bare tree — Student artwork
Two visions of Earth
A green Earth, and one hurt by heat and pollution.

Three people standing beside a newly installed backyard weather station — Hands-on
Setting up the station
The backyard station that measured every day above.

A group of students and adults outdoors next to a large white weather balloon — Field trip
Weather balloon launch
A CROCUS weather-balloon activity at Chicago’s Field Museum.

From our science poster

Poster chart: hourly temperature at Ishika’s weather station compared with HRRR, August to December 2024, with an average difference of 0.9 degrees Fahrenheit — Poster figure Hourly temperature at Ishika’s station compared with HRRR (as labeled on the poster), August–December 2024. This is a picture of a chart; the difference shown is not a general accuracy claim.

How we got these numbers

The station took a reading every 5 minutes. Each day’s high, low and average come from those readings. Days without enough readings are left blank, and wind is left blank on days the wind sensor recorded nothing.

After Feb 22, 2025 the station only saved about one reading a day, at different times, so those days aren’t shown. Live readings are not connected to this website.

Download every day’s readings (CSV spreadsheet)