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 McCulloch — General for some general background and discussion.
See McCulloch — 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: McCulloch

Direct links:

• Tracker
• Spreadsheet
• File Upload
• Transcription Status

I will start this whilst waiting for Pt2 of 1904.
I will finish the first month.

June finished.
Going back to 1904 Pt2

Michael your going to love June 1899 it is nearly all VAR.
I had to look up a lot of places to try and spell them proper for you.

Have you plotted this one yet?

Nope. When I plot a voyage, I mark it on the Transcription Status.

Just realised I only did one month on this one as a fill in time.

I shall take up this one, and finish what Stuart started.

You might check with Randi. I think Stuart did just one month because Randi wanted it for a newbie. Do a month, anyway, until Randi gets in touch.

It is rather nice writing....

Change of plans: At Randi’s request, I shall leave this year to newbies and do 1900 instead.

On a completely unrelated topic: I just found out it is extremely difficult to use this forum on a smartphone. Don’t ask me why I thought THAT would be a good idea!

PS. I removed your name from the 1899 tracker.

17th June to 30 June sent up from previous work.

Available to anyone who wants to finish this off

I will finish this off.

Finished off now.

I'll get right to it...