Weather/Virginia/Instruments/BTPV2
Blackwater Creek at Blackwater Trading Post
At a river or reservoir gauge in City of Virginia Beach County, VirginiaAt a river or reservoir gauge
DCP network, identified by the register
- Identifier
- BTPV2
- Latitude
- 36.60772 N
- Longitude
- 76.08465 W
- Elevation
- -
- Listed
- Automatically, on 668 reports in 169 hours over the last seven days
- Observed
- 1:00 AMEDT, 20 minutes ago
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Station charts
Blackwater Creek at Blackwater Trading Post Report
Rank 371 of 1,541 in Virginia, 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 score98.3of 100
- Virginia median
- 95.9the median score of 1,541 stations
- Scoring higher
- 332stations in Virginia
- Sharing its score
- 105ranks 333 to 437
- Points deducted
- 1.71.2 arrival, 0.4 forecast check, 0.2 reports received
- Counted at the median
- Accuracy, instrument checks, forecast checknot measured at this station; Virginia median 100.0, 100.0, 96.5
- Sharing its rank
- 40other stations, equal on every measure
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 3599.434.8 of 35 pointsVirginia median 97.9668 of 672 scheduled reports received in 7 days
- Arrivalweight 1088.28.8 of 10 pointsVirginia median 92.7half its reports arrived within 16 min
- Continuityweight 10100.010.0 of 10 pointsVirginia median 100.0longest silence 30 min, on a schedule of one report every 15 min
- Accuracyweight 20-20.0 of 20 points, at the medianVirginia median 100.0-
- Instrument checksweight 15-15.0 of 15 points, at the medianVirginia median 100.0-
- Forecast checkweight 10-9.7 of 10 points, at the medianVirginia median 96.5-
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 (45 min), none for 72 (18 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 15 minon the hour's :00, :15, :30 and :45
- Reports received, 24 hours
- 94 of 9697.9% of its schedule
- Reports received, 7 days
- 667 of 67299.2% of its schedule
- Days reported, 30 days
- -
- Longest silence, 7 days
- 30 minfrom Oct 10, 10:30 PM
- Latest report
- Oct 15, 10:15 PMlocal time
- Time to reach Storm Station
- 16 min9 in 10 within 19 min
From Storm Station's own record of every report it heard from this station.
Its schedule is one report every 15 min, 96 in 24 hours. Two reports in the same 15 min count as one received.
The ranking these charts were drawn from, as tables
| Share of scheduled reports received | Stations |
|---|---|
| 100% | 362 |
| 90 to 99% | 543 |
| 80 to 89% | 138 |
| 70 to 79% | 130 |
| 60 to 69% | 29 |
| 50 to 59% | 182 |
| 40 to 49% | 81 |
| 30 to 39% | 6 |
| 20 to 29% | 48 |
| 10 to 19% | 17 |
| 0 to 9% | 5 |
| Day | Rank | Stations ranked | Share received |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 16, 2026 | 371 | 1,541 | 99.4% |
| Oct 15, 2026 | 366 | 1,532 | 99.2% |
| Oct 14, 2026 | 537 | 1,537 | 98.3% |
| Oct 13, 2026 | 585 | 1,536 | 98.5% |
| Oct 12, 2026 | 528 | 1,532 | 98.5% |
| Oct 11, 2026 | 516 | 1,520 | 98.6% |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 535 | 1,530 | 98.5% |
| Oct 9, 2026 | 534 | 1,529 | 98.5% |
| Oct 8, 2026 | 561 | 1,534 | 98.3% |
| Oct 7, 2026 | 520 | 1,526 | 99.2% |
| Oct 6, 2026 | 548 | 1,444 | 99.2% |
| Oct 5, 2026 | 544 | 1,415 | 99.2% |
| Oct 4, 2026 | 568 | 1,183 | 99.2% |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 551 | 1,140 | 99.3% |
| Oct 2, 2026 | 551 | 1,140 | 99.3% |
| Oct 1, 2026 | 313 | 820 | 99.2% |
| Sep 30, 2026 | 164 | 818 | 100.0% |
| Sep 29, 2026 | 135 | 818 | 100.0% |
| Sep 28, 2026 | 125 | 807 | 100.0% |
| Sep 27, 2026 | 143 | 733 | 100.0% |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 143 | 729 | 100.0% |
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