Weather/New York/Instruments/BUFN6
Buffalo NY - 9063020
At a river or reservoir gauge in Erie County, New YorkAt a river or reservoir gauge
DCP network, identified by the register
- Identifier
- BUFN6
- Latitude
- 42.87800 N
- Longitude
- 78.89000 W
- Elevation
- -
- Listed
- Automatically, on 815 reports in 169 hours over the last seven days
- Observed
- 8:18 AMEDT, 22 minutes ago
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Station charts
Buffalo NY - 9063020 Report
Rank 494 of 1,432 in New York, 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 score96.5of 100
- New York median
- 96.1the median score of 1,432 stations
- Scoring higher
- 488stations in New York
- Sharing its score
- 6ranks 489 to 494
- Points deducted
- 3.51.7 arrival, 1.1 reports received, 0.8 forecast check
- Counted at the median
- Accuracy, instrument checks, forecast checknot measured at this station; New York median 100.0, 100.0, 92.5
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 3597.034.0 of 35 pointsNew York median 99.4815 of 840 scheduled reports received in 7 days
- Arrivalweight 1082.88.3 of 10 pointsNew York median 90.8half its reports arrived within 19 min
- Continuityweight 10100.010.0 of 10 pointsNew York median 100.0longest silence 36 min, on a schedule of one report every 12 min
- Accuracyweight 20-20.0 of 20 points, at the medianNew York median 100.0-
- Instrument checksweight 15-15.0 of 15 points, at the medianNew York median 100.0-
- Forecast checkweight 10-9.3 of 10 points, at the medianNew York median 92.5-
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 (36 min), none for 72 (14.4 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 6 min
- Reports received, 24 hours
- 239 of 24099.5% of its schedule
- Reports received, 7 days
- 1,679 of 1,68099.9% of its schedule
- Days reported, 30 days
- -
- Longest silence, 7 days
- 22 minfrom Oct 16, 8:18 AM
- Latest report
- Oct 16, 8:18 AMlocal 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: 815 of 840 scheduled reports received, 97.0%.
Its schedule is one report every 6 min, 240 in 24 hours. Two reports in the same 6 min count as one received.
The ranking these charts were drawn from, as tables
| Share of scheduled reports received | Stations |
|---|---|
| 100% | 619 |
| 90 to 99% | 274 |
| 80 to 89% | 106 |
| 70 to 79% | 68 |
| 60 to 69% | 32 |
| 50 to 59% | 200 |
| 40 to 49% | 72 |
| 30 to 39% | 3 |
| 20 to 29% | 45 |
| 10 to 19% | 7 |
| 0 to 9% | 6 |
| Day | Rank | Stations ranked | Share received |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 16, 2026 | 494 | 1,432 | 97.0% |
| Oct 15, 2026 | 809 | 1,433 | 94.6% |
| Oct 14, 2026 | 965 | 1,427 | 91.6% |
| Oct 13, 2026 | 979 | 1,437 | 88.4% |
| Oct 12, 2026 | 972 | 1,434 | 85.1% |
| Oct 11, 2026 | 938 | 1,431 | 82.9% |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 996 | 1,426 | 79.8% |
| Oct 9, 2026 | 993 | 1,426 | 79.8% |
| Oct 8, 2026 | 990 | 1,426 | 80.3% |
| Oct 7, 2026 | 943 | 1,413 | 82.0% |
| Oct 6, 2026 | 923 | 1,376 | 82.3% |
| Oct 5, 2026 | 888 | 1,359 | 83.8% |
| Oct 4, 2026 | 902 | 1,128 | 85.5% |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 916 | 1,106 | 87.5% |
| Oct 2, 2026 | 916 | 1,106 | 87.5% |
| Oct 1, 2026 | 660 | 753 | 87.2% |
| Sep 30, 2026 | 662 | 752 | 88.0% |
| Sep 29, 2026 | 653 | 738 | 90.7% |
| Sep 28, 2026 | 649 | 722 | 93.5% |
| Sep 27, 2026 | 568 | 626 | 94.4% |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 585 | 621 | 91.4% |