Observations reference

Observations

Find daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly summaries and individual stored records. On iPhone and iPad, the table icon in the Historical toolbar opens Observations. Narrow layouts use a list; wider layouts and Mac use a table.

Change the view

Use Day, Week, Month, Year, and All to switch between summary levels and the full observation table.

On iPhone and iPad, use the period control in Observations. On macOS, change the mode from the toolbar or choose View › Day, Week, Month, Year, or All while Observations is active.

Historical Observation Data provides another route to the selected period, its summaries, child periods, and stored records on iPhone and iPad. Use Real Time Data to inspect the current observation.

Inspect stored data

Summary rows condense longer periods. Use All to inspect individual observations directly.

Depending on the provider, station model, and installed sensors, the tables can include temperature, humidity, comfort, rain, evapotranspiration, lightning, wind, pressure, solar and UV, air-quality, indoor, extra-channel, soil, water, and plant metrics. Multi-channel readings retain their channel number so values from separate sensors remain identifiable.

Unit changes in Settings update the table display while preserving stored values.

Observation details can also show derived values such as growing, heating, and cooling degree days; event metadata such as storm start, storm end, last rain, or last lightning strike; forecast context; and ephemeris values.

See Supported measurements for the complete normalized measurement families.

Observations table

On macOS, the Observations table supports common table actions for review and export:

  • Click a column header to sort by that column.
  • Use the column header menu to show or hide metric columns. Observed At always stays visible.
  • Drag column headers to reorder them, and drag column dividers to resize them.
  • Select one or more rows, then choose Edit › Copy to copy the current rows as CSV. Paste the result into another app.
  • Double-click a row to open the selected observation in more detail.
  • In day, week, month, and year summary tables, right-click a row and choose View Charts for … to open the matching historical charts.

For the full macOS shortcut list, see Keyboard Shortcuts.

When data looks incomplete

Summaries are calculated by Weather Fusion when downloading historical data from the provider.

  • If summaries look out of sync or are missing data after restores or backfills, run Recalculate Summaries.
  • If expected rows or periods are missing, use Download Older Observations or Download Missing Observations from Data Management.