buzm3
 

I have a link to this buoy that I check to watch the sea surface temps.
I just clicked it first time in awhile to find no data. Last reading was July 12th, 8 am. I don't know anything about buoys, is there a battery to replace? What could render one out of commision?

is this your buoy or one connected by the town or something?

It's a CMAN station, whatever that is. I found the link on wunderground under marine weather. I think its just west of C'hunk. MY buoy? Shows what I don't know. You mean one can have their own buoy??

i have no idea... i was curious as to if you bought this contraption or you found a link to a website that links to the buoy type of thing.

OK. I got it now. buzm3 is owned by National Data Buoy Data center and it's apparently not working. However, I found bzbm3, almost the same location, owned by NOAA's National Ocean Service but it only gives water temp. The other one gave me everything, wind, wave info. etc. I found this on www.ndbc.noaa.gov.

BUZM3 is a tower that replaced the old texas tower that used to be there. it takes forever for the NDBC to fix buoys/towers, so don't expect data to return too soon.

it could be as simple as they've had trouble communicating with the tower or all the lightning etc. could have cooked the instrument package.

That bouy is always down, I think last time it was down for almost a year?
I could see it coming it has not been doing wave hights for months:doh:

It was back up august 17th and today was the first I checked since this post.http://www.yelims.com/IPB/Invision-Board-France-294.gif
but no wave height. I don't have a boat anyhow, I mostly wanted the temps.

57* in Boston Harbor this morning

This site is helpful http://www.pdfamily.com/weather/buoy.php

Numbskull, this is a great link...Thanks!