Fairweather BureauKestrel Valley · est. 1934
ISSUED 06:00 Frost advisory for the upper vale, tonight 02:00-07:00•POINT BRACE SW 26 km/h, gusting 41•VALE OBSERVATORY Balloon away 06:15 and 18:15•KESTREL DAM Gauge steady at 3.42 m•ASHGROVE HILL 11.4°C and rising•

Journal

From the notebook.

Essays from the bureau staff, written on the backs of observation cards and argued about at lunch. Irregular, like the weather.

2026-08-12 · 6 min

Reading the Summer Heat

What forty-one summers of Kestrel Valley thermographs say about the warm weeks, and why the valley floor stays calm when the ridge does not.

Ines Kaldo

2026-06-03 · 5 min

Why the Bureau Still Measures by Hand

Our automatic rain gauges are good. They are not good enough to retire the pencil. A case for the daily observer and the six-figure ledger.

Tomas Reyes

2026-05-19 · 4 min

The Fog Diary

Every keeper at Point Brace has kept a private fog diary since 1951. We asked the current three what theirs say.

Marta Ossler