NM just found it...

Pressure At Station Not Captured  Hecto Pascal  Millibar
Mean Sea-Level Pressure Not Captured  Hecto Pascal  Millibar

Doesn't look obvious though, which is why I overlooked it...

On Thu, 25 Sept 2025 at 22:11, John Smith <[email protected]> wrote:

> I assume they mean some kind of setting on their website for each station,
> but I just looked then and didn't find anything...
>
> On Thu, 25 Sept 2025 at 22:01, Tom Keffer <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> @John Smith <[email protected]> glad that worked for you.
>>
>> Everyone: all of this led me to take a look at what the UK WOW wants
>> <https://wow.metoffice.gov.uk/support/dataformats#pressure>. It's even
>> more confusing. Rather than have a well-defined API, they let the user
>> choose what "baromin" means.
>>
>> Pressure & MSLP:
>>
>> Some weather stations record Mean Sea Level Pressure, and some record
>> Station Pressure (also referred to as Air Pressure). The Site Definition in
>> WOW will be used to determine which pressure measurement to use. If your
>> site specifies a unit for Air Pressure, and MSLP is marked as 'Not
>> Captured', then baromin will be treated as an Air Pressure reading.
>> Otherwise it will be treated as an MSLP reading. To edit your site
>> definition and ensure the correct pressure is selected, visit the edit
>> pages of your site and the options for pressure will be near the bottom.
>> Ensure one is set to 'hectopascals (hPa)' and the other is set to 'not
>> captured'. WOW will then automatically work out the other measurement and
>> store it for you.
>>
>> I don't know what they mean by "If your site specifies a unit for Air
>> Pressure." In any case, we send "barometer", which is pressure corrected
>> for altitude and temperature. Reading this very confusing passage, I think
>> we should send "altimeter" and remind users to mark MSLP as "Captured."
>>
>> Any other opinions?
>>
>> -tk
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 25, 2025 at 4:14 AM Jimi Lawson <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> @Ton vanN & @steepleian
>>> I came to the same conclusion after an extensive internet search (I only
>>> found 2 references to this, 1 on this thread and 1 on WOW-BE) and I also
>>> contacted the UK MET Office and asked the following questions
>>>
>>>    1. I currently upload my weather station data to my site (Well Road
>>>    Weather) on the Met Office WOW Will the DataPoint retirement affect this 
>>> ?
>>>    If do how do I continue to submit Data ?
>>>    2. I also currently download a 7 day forecast from the MET office
>>>    will this continue or will I have to access it a different way.
>>>    3. I used to be able to upload weather cam images to WOW by FTP but
>>>    this no longer seems to work, is it discontinued? if so will there be an
>>>    alternative method available ?
>>>
>>>
>>> The answers were
>>>
>>>
>>>    1. No, the removal of DataPoint will not affect uploading data to
>>>    WOW.
>>>    2. A service called Weather DataHub will be taking over from
>>>    DataPoint, through there you can download forecasts. Please see further
>>>    information here: https://datahub.metoffice.gov.uk/The WOW FTP
>>>    server has been retired.
>>>    3. If anyone wishes to upload webcam images they'll have to use
>>>    their own FTP server. Steps for this can be found here:
>>>    https://wow.metoffice.gov.uk/support/webcams
>>>
>>>
>>> Straight from the horses mouth is good enough for me, I won't be
>>> changing my upload to UKMO
>>> Jimi
>>>
>>> On Thursday, 25 September 2025 at 10:20:11 UTC+1 steepleian wrote:
>>>
>>>> @Ton,
>>>> I think you may have hit the nail on the head with your conclusion.
>>>>
>>>> https://claydonsweather.org.uk
>>>>
>>>> On 25 Sep 2025, at 10:09, steepleian <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> The wow.metoffice.gov.uk is still alive and kicking. There was a
>>>> change of process which meant users had to migrate their accounts by a
>>>> certain date or lose access. No suggestion it was closing.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> https://claydonsweather.org.uk
>>>>
>>>> On 25 Sep 2025, at 09:13, Ton vanN <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Have tried to trace back, but absolutely no mentioning at the
>>>> WOW-partner-websites of MetOfficeUK (= KNMI and MetEireann) about an
>>>> upcoming shutdown for WOW-UPLOAD, causing serious doubt about the report at
>>>> GitHub.
>>>> Or is it misinterpretation related to a change in the datahub providing
>>>> DOWNLOAD of meteodata from MetOfficeUK?
>>>>
>>>> Can somebody point/recall to a weblink to the said shutdown-message
>>>> from MetOfficeUK, as confirmation of the source-info?
>>>> Lacking that confirmation the creation of the new upload to
>>>> wow.meteo.be looks like a solo-action from KMI/RMI for creation of a
>>>> parallel WOW-channel.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Op donderdag 25 september 2025 om 07:15:06 UTC+2 schreef John Smith:
>>>>
>>>>> I now only have 'altimeter': 'baromin=%.3f', I removed the pressure
>>>>> line
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, 25 Sept 2025 at 14:56, John Smith <[email protected]>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> @Tom
>>>>>> Yes that seems to work...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Thu, 25 Sept 2025 at 06:29, Tom Keffer <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I see one possible point of confusion. For baromin, they say
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> baromin
>>>>>>> number
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Relative Pressure i.e. pressure adjusted to sea level (Inch of
>>>>>>> Mercury)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> This seems like they expect an adjustment *only* for altitude, not
>>>>>>> temperature. If that's the case, then the correct WeeWX observation type
>>>>>>> would be "altimeter", not "barometer".
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> @John Smith : could you try making the switch and see if that makes
>>>>>>> a difference in your results?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Wed, Sep 24, 2025 at 3:15 AM Glenn McKechnie <
>>>>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Spent some time trying to understand this and what might have
>>>>>>>> changed, We were using absbaromin to get the corrected readings when 
>>>>>>>> it was
>>>>>>>> first implemented, and as John said this was because baromin gave 
>>>>>>>> readings
>>>>>>>> that were too high. That now seems to have flipped, we're back to
>>>>>>>> ridiculous highs again.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> We started back around the 16th, and all the pressure data prior to
>>>>>>>> the 19th @ 19:45 is missing for Aus. So ? ; one of life's little 
>>>>>>>> mysteries
>>>>>>>> I guess.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Rather than questioning my sanity any further, I've checked out the
>>>>>>>> development driver for restx.py and am using it in place of the 
>>>>>>>> previous
>>>>>>>> one.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Now barometer = baromin works, as does pressure = absbaromin
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> We are back to sane values. The development driver works.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Comparing the output to the official BOM values from the local
>>>>>>>> airport, I'm within range.
>>>>>>>> They are at 435 metres, I'm at 455 metres - close enough
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Cheers
>>>>>>>>  Glenn
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Various WeeWx addons at
>>>>>>>> https://github.com/glennmckechnie
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Wed, 24 Sept 2025 at 19:24, Graham Eddy <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> ditto. just waiting for it to settle, then deploy
>>>>>>>>> *⊣GE⊢*
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On 24 Sep 2025, at 6:10 pm, 'steepleian' via weewx-user <
>>>>>>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I am a current WOW user and intend to continue with the new
>>>>>>>>> service.
>>>>>>>>>
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