This station is supported by the Archimed Interreg IIIB Project Weather Risk Reduction in the Central and Eastern Mediterranean (RISKMED). The participation in this project is coordinated by Dr. Aldo Drago, Head of the PO-Unit. For further information please contact us on email address: aldo.drago@um.edu.mt Structural Funds Programme for Malta (2004-2006); Project part-financed by the European Union Community Initiative Interreg IIIB Archimed Programme Disclaimer: IOI-MOC makes every effort to ensure that information contained in these pages is accurate and up to date. However, no liability is accepted arising from reliance upon the information contained in these pages or any other information accessed via this website.

The automatic realtime weather monitoring station is positioned on the tip of the Marsaxlokk breakwater at latitude 35^o49'05.20"N and longitude 14^o32'59.00"E at a heigth of 4.5m above mean sea level. The station is an addition to the meteo-marine observing system of the Physical Oceanography Unit at the IOI-Malta Operational Centre of the University of Malta. It has been set up with funding through the RISKMED project which targets to provide early warnings of adverse atmospheric conditions. The station also provides important meteo information for the safer navigation of ships into and out of the port of Marsaxlokk.

The station consists of robust sensors from Aanderaa Instruments measuring Wind Magnitude and Direction, Wind Gust, Atmospheric Pressure and Air Temperature every 2 minutes. Data is transmitted by UHF to a control station at the OilTanking Malta Ltd. premises, transferred by FTP to the server at the PO-Unit centre where it is quality controlled, elaborated and published on this webpage with updated charts every 15 minutes. Time on the station is synchronised every hour with a GMT Internet Time server.