Old Weather Forum

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On the weather page, please enter: date, locations, distances (nautical miles and tenths), courses, and all the weather data in the columns outlined in red in the spreadsheet.
It is not necessary to record State of the Sea.
However, ice mentioned in the weather grid should be transcribed using the magenta Sea column.

On the events page please enter: ice, location information, and sailing information.
Aurorae, volcanic, and seismic activity should be reported in the forum.
The names of US Navy and Coast Guard ships met should be noted. This gives the science team a chance to compare weather readings. You can include all ships mentioned in a single entry without a time or any additional data.
Other events are optional.

One person can do both weather and events (Stream 1), but the system also allows one person to do the weather page (Stream 1) and a second person to do the events page (Stream 3).
Unlike in OW3, where three transcriptions were required for each page, we are doing only one transcription per page.

Every transcriber needs to enter the date.
The date is used to organize the pages.

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See Haida — General for some general background and discussion.
See Haida — Examples for a quick introduction to transcribing or a refresher.

See Transcribing Guide to learn how to transcribe the data.
Post in Ask Questions Here or this topic if you have questions.

OW web site: Haida

Direct links:

• Tracker
• Spreadsheet
• File Upload
• Transcription Status

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I have this one.

Finished.

Wow!

Wow, indeed. It's in the queue with Haida 1935 and Atalanta 1946.

January and March will be available soon

February is done. January and March are available and waiting for a transcriber.

As I started this I will take a break from 1925 and finish this ship.

No rush...

January
We have been releasing a lot of different radar tracking balloons for the last few days.
No mention of who is tracking them or there purpose.

According to https://military.wikia.org/wiki/USCGC_Haida_(WPG-45), she was a weather ship at that point.

https://www.coastguardmodeling.com/inde ... -stations/
https://radiosondemuseum.org/photographs/

Jan and March done and uploaded.
That should complete 1946.

Back to 1925 for me.

Good job, Stuart. It's in the queue behind 1938.

The voyage for 1946 has been done, with many thanks to Stuart. You can see the voyage plot here and, for more detail, you can download the KML file and view it in Google Earth. The first part of the year they were the weather ship at weather station Abel/Papa. (The name changed at some time between 1944 and 1946, when 'A' names were given to the Atlantic weather ships and the Pacific weather ships got 'P' names.)