Drawn as the kind of place it stands at. 10 instruments in Maryland stand at one.
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Every instrument in this state
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Station charts
Piney Point Report
Rank 675 of 736 in Maryland, Oct 16. The 247 rank orders a state's stations by their 247 score out of 100: how reliably they report, how accurate their readings are against a reference station, how their readings pass their checks, and how they stand against the forecast.
WDNM2rank 676; behind on 247 score 69.2 against 68.6
Equal scores are ordered by the share of scheduled reports received, then the reports due in the week (the longer record first), then the median arrival, then the longest silence.
Reports receivedweight 3557.520.1 of 35 pointsMaryland median 82.1322 of 560 scheduled reports received in 7 days
Arrivalweight 1031.93.2 of 10 pointsMaryland median 94.0half its reports arrived within 44 min
Continuityweight 1018.51.9 of 10 pointsMaryland median 100.0longest silence 12 h, on a schedule of one report every 18 min
Accuracyweight 20-19.8 of 20 points, at the medianMaryland median 99.0-
Instrument checksweight 15-15.0 of 15 points, at the medianMaryland median 100.0-
Forecast checkweight 10-9.2 of 10 points, at the medianMaryland median 92.1-
The score is the weighted mean of its six parts, from the last 7 days. How a station is ranked sets out each part.
How each part is scored
Reports received
Full marks for every scheduled report received, none for none, in proportion between
Arrival
Full marks for a median arrival within 10 min, none at 60 min
Continuity
Full marks for a longest silence of 3 reports or less (54 min), none for 72 (21.6 h)
Accuracy
Full marks within 1.5 °F of its reference, typically, none beyond 8.0 °F
Instrument checks
Full marks for no reading failed, none for 5 per cent or more
Forecast check
Full marks within 2 °F of the forecast on average, none at 8 °F
On Oct 16 the noon sun stands 43 degrees above the horizon at 38.13 N, and the day is 11 h 02 min long. Level ground there takes 68 per cent of the noon sunlight a surface facing the sun would.