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Ishika Sharma’s weather explorer

Readings from Ishika’s backyard weather station, the weekly weather journal she wrote, and the drawings and photos that go with them.

Archived station readings

Real measurements saved by the original SkyScouts dashboard, Aug 6, 2024 to Feb 22, 2025. Not live.

Ishika’s own records

66 journal pages from Aug 2024 to Oct 2025, plus drawings 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 Ishika’s station took every five minutes. Choose what to show and which dates to look at. The small markers along the top show days when Ishika wrote a journal page; select one to read it.

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

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

Weekly weather journal

Ishika’s own records Ishika wrote 66 journal pages about the weather between August 2024 and October 2025. Select a page to read it. For pages written while the station record runs (August 2024 to February 2025), you’ll also see what the station measured that week.

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 and photos

Ishika’s own records Weather in pictures, from the original dashboard and the Sky Scouts poster.

Crayon drawing of rain falling from grey clouds, with a lightning bolt, onto green grass beside a tree
Aug 18, 2024

A rainy day

A weather drawing uploaded to the original dashboard.

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 drawing contrasts a green Earth with an Earth affected by heat and pollution.

Three people standing beside a newly installed backyard weather station
Hands-on exploration

Backyard weather station

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

A group of students and adults outdoors next to a large white weather balloon
Field learning

Weather balloon science

The poster documents a weather-balloon activity at a CROCUS field campaign at Chicago’s Field Museum.

Poster figure: hourly temperature, August–December 2024

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