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Station PTAC1 - Point Arena, CA
Owned and maintained by National Data Buoy Center
C-MAN Station
MARS payload
38.955 N 123.741 W (38°57'18" N 123°44'28" W)
Site elevation: 17.4 m above mean sea level
Air temp height: 6.1 m above site elevation
Anemometer height: 12.5 m above site elevation
Barometer elevation: 18.9 m above mean sea level
Latest NWS Marine Forecast 1 and Latest NWS Marine Forecast 2
Meteorological Observations from Nearby Stations and Ships
Stations with recent data
Stations with no data in last 8 hours(24 hours for tsunami stations)
No Recent Reports
Links which are specific to this station are listed below:
Data for last 24 hours: No data available.
Data for last 5 days: No data available.
Data for last 45 days: No data available.
- Historical data (data descriptions)
- Search historical meteorological data for observations that meet your threshold conditions
- Climatic summary table (TXT) and plots of (description of tables and plots)
Some data files have been compressed with the GNU gzip program.
The weekly status report and the weekly maintenance report also provide valuable station information.
Note that the payload types and the station locations occasionally change.
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