met data from this buoy are now feeding NDBC and the world

Last week I began feeding the 10-minute meteorological data from the two Tobago buoys to the National Data Buoy Center (NDBC).  A few days later NDBC notified me that those data feeds have been cleared for release to the Global Telecommunications Systems (GTS), which makes those data available for use by national weather services all over the world.

The Buccoo Reef buoy, which we informally refer to as BUTO1, has officially been designated 42087, which is in keeping with the custom of giving all-numeric designations to buoys.  The NDBC home page for the Buccoo Reef buoy may be found here:

http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=42087

This link has also been added to the 'Links' section on the right-hand side of this blog.

regards,
Mike J+