Weather/Maine/Instruments/WLDM1
Penobscot River AT Weldon Dam
At a dam in Penobscot County, MaineAt a dam
DCP network, identified by the register
- Identifier
- WLDM1
- Latitude
- 45.57030 N
- Longitude
- 68.40920 W
- Elevation
- -
- Listed
- Automatically, on 293 reports in 161 hours over the last seven days
- Observed
- 9:19 PMEDT, 1 hour ago
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Penobscot River AT Weldon Dam Report
Rank 240 of 422 in Maine, 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.
Ranking Statistics
247 score91.9of 100
- Maine median
- 94.7the median score of 422 stations
- Scoring higher
- 239stations in Maine
- Sharing its score
- 1no other station
- Points deducted
- 8.14.5 reports received, 2.6 arrival, 0.9 forecast check, 0.1 accuracy
- Counted at the median
- Accuracy, instrument checks, forecast checknot measured at this station; Maine median 99.4, 100.0, 91.1
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 3587.230.5 of 35 pointsMaine median 97.6293 of 336 scheduled reports received in 7 days
- Arrivalweight 1073.87.4 of 10 pointsMaine median 98.8half its reports arrived within 23 min
- Continuityweight 10100.010.0 of 10 pointsMaine median 100.0longest silence 89 min, on a schedule of one report every 30 min
- Accuracyweight 20-19.9 of 20 points, at the medianMaine median 99.4-
- Instrument checksweight 15-15.0 of 15 points, at the medianMaine median 100.0-
- Forecast checkweight 10-9.1 of 10 points, at the medianMaine median 91.1-
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 (1.5 h), none for 72 (36 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
- Schedule
- every 1 min
- Reports received, 24 hours
- 985 of 1,44068.4% of its schedule
- Reports received, 7 days
- 7,110 of 10,08070.5% of its schedule
- Days reported, 30 days
- -
- Longest silence, 7 days
- 69 minfrom Oct 9, 11:51 PM
- Latest report
- Oct 15, 10:00 PMlocal time
The reports received are counted from the network's own archive of this station's reports. Its 247 rank is counted from Storm Station's own record, which holds less than 7 days of it so far: 293 of 336 scheduled reports received, 87.2%.
Its schedule is one report every 1 min, 1,440 in 24 hours. Two reports in the same 1 min count as one received.
The ranking these charts were drawn from, as tables
| Share of scheduled reports received | Stations |
|---|---|
| 100% | 118 |
| 90 to 99% | 104 |
| 80 to 89% | 33 |
| 70 to 79% | 28 |
| 60 to 69% | 13 |
| 50 to 59% | 77 |
| 40 to 49% | 32 |
| 30 to 39% | 0 |
| 20 to 29% | 10 |
| 10 to 19% | 1 |
| 0 to 9% | 6 |
| Day | Rank | Stations ranked | Share received |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 16, 2026 | 240 | 422 | 87.2% |
| Oct 15, 2026 | 244 | 424 | 87.5% |
| Oct 14, 2026 | 245 | 419 | 83.9% |
| Oct 13, 2026 | 243 | 423 | 86.0% |
| Oct 12, 2026 | 236 | 416 | 86.0% |
| Oct 11, 2026 | 227 | 412 | 86.3% |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 233 | 411 | 85.4% |
| Oct 9, 2026 | 234 | 410 | 85.4% |
| Oct 8, 2026 | 232 | 413 | 86.3% |
| Oct 7, 2026 | 233 | 401 | 88.3% |
| Oct 6, 2026 | 221 | 397 | 88.9% |
| Oct 5, 2026 | 219 | 380 | 89.2% |
| Oct 4, 2026 | 228 | 312 | 91.3% |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 220 | 306 | 92.1% |
| Oct 2, 2026 | 220 | 306 | 92.1% |
| Oct 1, 2026 | 164 | 211 | 93.3% |
| Sep 30, 2026 | 169 | 206 | 92.8% |
| Sep 29, 2026 | 169 | 206 | 93.6% |
| Sep 28, 2026 | 174 | 197 | 91.4% |
| Sep 27, 2026 | 135 | 157 | 94.6% |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 144 | 157 | 87.2% |