Friday, January 17, 2025

WOW 2024 in numbers!

This January we’re reflecting back on 2024 with a look at some of our favourite WOW statistics 

In December WOW reached over 3.47 billion total observations received! We now have almost 35,000 sites and a total 38,674 users on WOW since we first launched in 2011. 


 
 

Last year alone we had 500,000,000+ observations, 2,034 new sites and 2,653 new users 

In 2024 we also welcomed Swedish and Australian users to the WOW UK site where they’ve continued to provide their observations. A big thank you to all our users for your continued support of WOW and for providing the Met Office with your weather observations. We particularly appreciate your patience with the release and rollback of the UX work in September – we will update on this when we can.  

Looking ahead to 2025  

We are upgrading our login system! All users currently log in to WOW through a legacy system and after 14 years it is due an upgrade. This will require some actions from you, including setting up a new account and linking it to your current account with a provided code. We require all users to be on to the new system by the 17th March (subject to change), so will be sending out more details on this in the coming weeks.  


Once again, thank you for supporting us – here’s to 2025! 

Best, 

the WOW team   



Wednesday, November 6, 2024

Bureau of Meteorology Weather Observation Website (WOW Australia)

In January 2025, the Bureau of Meteorology (https://bom-wow.metoffice.gov.uk/) will stop hosting the Weather Observations Website (WOW Australia). For all registered users who wish to continue to use the service you can do so through the WOW UK website: https://wow.metoffice.gov.uk/.

Uploading of weather station data and login account details will remain unchanged. 

 

For any questions please contact wow@metoffice.org.uk


Edit (3/01/2024): The redirect has successfully been applied and all Bureau of Meteorology WOW users can login in to their sites via the UK WOW.