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Live/247 Rank/Alaska

Alaska 24/7 Rank

Every station in Alaska ranked by its 247 score out of 100: how reliably it reports, how accurate its readings are against a reference station, how they pass their checks and how they stand against the forecast, over the last seven days.

1,023 stations ranked31.7% sent every report dueranked October 16, 2026page 5 of 5Alaska instrumentsAlaska weather

A station is ranked once its week holds enough reports to measure: 12, or 3 days for a gauge that reports once a day. Of the 1,023 ranked here, 1,011 have a page of their own; the rest are platforms heard here that have not yet reported enough to be listed.

Every station, ranked

RankStationScorePartsNetworkAreaReceivedReportsArrives inLongest silence
1,001Palmer - Marmot RidgeMMRA268.8GaugeMatanuska-Susitna70.8%119 of 16837 min2 h
1,002Point Hope (AWOS)PAPO68.7AirportNorth Slope39.1%116 of 2965 min2.1 days
1,003Palmer - Hatch PeakHTPA267.4GaugeMatanuska-Susitna70.8%119 of 16837 min2 h
1,004Willow - Luck Shot Mine HighLSMA267.2GaugeMatanuska-Susitna35.1%59 of 16847 min7 h
1,005Wiseman - Chandalar ShelfCDSA267.2GaugeNorth Slope27.9%47 of 16817 min22 h
1,006Mendenhall Lake AT Suicide BasinJSBA267.0GaugeJuneau47.6%80 of 16837 min2.4 days
1,007Willow - Luck Shot Mine LowLSLA266.3GaugeMatanuska-Susitna39.2%66 of 16847 min11 h
1,008Citizen station GW0412GW041264.9CitizenKenai Peninsula23.3%470 of 2,01618 s3.5 h
1,009SUSITNA RIVER 26 NNE Susitna River at Gold CreekGCSA264.5GaugeMatanuska-Susitna30.9%52 of 16817 min4.8 days
1,010FW2842 HomerF284264.4GaugeKenai Peninsula6.7%45 of 67217 min71 min
1,011Citizen station GW5496GW549664.0CitizenWrangell20.7%419 of 2,01617 s3.5 h
1,012Citizen station GW5991GW599163.8CitizenPetersburg20.6%417 of 2,01618 s3.6 h
1,013Citizen station GW7531GW753163.8CitizenNorth Slope20.6%416 of 2,01617 s3.6 h
1,014Citizen station GW4901GW490163.7CitizenKenai Peninsula20.7%419 of 2,01618 s3.7 h
1,015Citizen station GW8006GW800663.6CitizenMatanuska-Susitna20.3%411 of 2,01617 s3.7 h
1,016Citizen station GW5216GW521663.6CitizenPetersburg20.1%406 of 2,01619 s3.7 h
1,017Metlakatla 2ESE - Chester LakeCMWA263.0GaugePrince of Wales-Hyder16.6%112 of 67212 min8 h
1,018Glacier River AT Glacier River Tributary near CordovaGCOA262.5GaugeValdez-Cordova17.2%29 of 16816 min30 h
1,019Citizen station CW6739CW673962.4CitizenMatanuska-Susitna20.8%420 of 2,01617 s3.6 h
1,020SRAA2SRAA261.4DCP-12.5%21 of 16817 min25 h
1,021Nuiqsut (ASOS)PAQT59.2AirportNorth Slope23.8%40 of 16817 min4.2 days
1,022Indian River 1 E Indian River at SitkaIRVA258.6GaugeSitka16.9%114 of 67222 min5.8 days
1,023DAHL CREEK 3 N Dahl Creek nr KobukDCKA256.9GaugeNorthwest Arctic86.1%193 of 22427 min61 min

How a station is ranked

The 247 Rank answers one question about a weather station: can its readings be relied on? A station has to deliver: its reports arrive when due, soon, without long silences. And its readings have to be right: close to a trusted station nearby, passing their checks, and in step with the weather the forecast and its neighbours confirm.

The 247 score

Storm Station's poller asks every network on its own schedule, around the clock, and keeps the time of every report it hears; the reference comparison and the forecast engine keep the rest. From the last seven days of that record each station is scored out of 100 on six parts, and its 247 score is their weighted mean:

  1. Reports receivedweight 35The share of its scheduled reports received. A station that sends every 5 minutes is due 2,016 reports in a week; one that reports once a day is due 7. Each report is counted in a slot centred on the station's own report time, so a report a minute early or late is still on time, and the week ends an hour back, so a report still on its way is never counted missed.Full marks: 100% received. No marks: none received.
  2. Arrivalweight 10The median time its reports took to arrive from the moment a reading was taken to the moment it reached Storm Station.Full marks: within 10 minutes, or a tenth of its schedule for a station that reports less often. No marks: an hour, or its whole schedule.
  3. Continuityweight 10Its longest silence against its own schedule, so a daily gauge is not marked down for a day between reports.Full marks: a silence of 3 reports or less. No marks: 72 reports, falling evenly on a log scale between.
  4. Accuracyweight 20How closely its temperature follows its reference station the nearest airport or climate reference station that reported within half an hour, up to 15 miles away, reading by reading; an airfield is compared with the nearest other airport, never its own report. A steady offset is taken out, and where both heights are known only the offset beyond 3 F that the height difference does not explain is counted.Full marks: within 1.5 F, allowing 0.1 F more for each mile to the reference. No marks: 6.5 F beyond that.
  5. Instrument checksweight 15The share of its readings that pass a check. For an airfield, the check the forecast engine runs the next day: each reading against the stations around it, as weather services check their own. For any other station, a reading 20 F or more from its reference fails, unless the two stand 3,000 ft or more apart.Full marks: none failed. No marks: 5% failed.
  6. Forecast checkweight 10How closely its temperature matched Storm Station's forecast for the same hours, checked the next day, for every airfield the forecast engine scores. A station whose readings stray far from a forecast its neighbours confirm is one to doubt.Full marks: within 2 F on average. No marks: 8 F.

A part is scored once the week holds 24 readings or comparisons for it. A part that cannot be measured where a station stands counts at the middle of its state's measured stations, so the station is neither lifted nor sunk by it. A part measured nowhere in the state is left out, and the others carry its weight.

From score to rank

Each state's stations are ranked by their score, to the tenth. At an equal score the longer record comes first: a station that sent 2,016 of 2,016 reports has shown more than one that sent 7 of 7. Then the faster arrival, then the shorter silence. Ties on all of them share a rank, as a race is scored: three stations tied for third are all third, and the next is sixth.

A station is ranked once its week holds enough reports to measure: 12, or 3 days for a gauge that reports once a day. The rank is made again every day, so a station that falls silent or starts to read wrong drops, and one that recovers climbs back. Every page shows the same ranking: a station's rank here, in its state's list and on its own page come from one run, and a new run reaches them together. Each station's page shows its score part by part, with the figures behind each.

The same figures as data

/api/ranks for a state and /api/rank for one station, its score in parts; the developer page has every field.