Supported measurements reference

Supported measurements

Find supported measurement families, metric statistics and time windows, and provider-specific availability.

Weather Fusion converts readings from each provider into a shared measurement catalog. This lets the app present the same kind of reading consistently across stations, while preserving the statistic and time window supplied by the source.

Measurements and metrics

A measurement is the physical quantity or concept, such as temperature, rain, or PM2.5. A metric is a specific form of that measurement, identified by its statistic and time window.

For example, Rain can include current rain rate, rain during the last hour, rolling 24-hour rain, today’s rain, and storm rain. These are separate metrics even though they belong to the same measurement family. Extra sensor channels, such as Soil Temperature 3 or PM2.5 2, are also separate metrics.

Statistics can include an instant value, average, minimum, maximum, sum, rate, nowcast, or last-known value. Windows can represent a point in time, a rolling number of minutes or hours, a calendar day, week, month, or year, or a storm.

Measurement families

FamilySupported measurements and variants
TemperatureOutdoor and indoor temperature; apparent and feels-like temperature; heat index; THW and THSW index; wind chill; wet bulb; black globe temperature; Wet Bulb Globe Temperature; target temperature; and up to 10 extra temperature, dew-point, and feels-like channels
HumidityOutdoor and indoor relative humidity; dew point; Vapor Pressure Deficit; and up to 10 extra humidity channels
RainRain rate; 1-hour, rolling 24-hour, daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, storm, and other provider-defined accumulations; storm start and end; and last rain time
Evapotranspiration and degree daysEvapotranspiration; short-reference and tall-reference evapotranspiration; and growing, heating, and cooling degree days
LightningStrike totals; last strike time and distance; closest strike; active intervals and days; peak interval and daily strike counts; and strike totals by distance band
WindSustained wind speed; gust; wind and gust direction; direction variability; wind run; and wind or gust direction distributions
PressureSea-level pressure, station pressure, pressure tendency, and 3-hour pressure change
Solar and UVSolar irradiance and UV index
Air qualityPM1, PM2.5, and PM10; four additional PM2.5 channels; indoor particulate readings; AQI value, type, and description; and temperature, humidity, dew point, heat index, wet bulb, and CO2 reported by an air-quality sensor
Indoor environmentIndoor temperature, humidity, apparent temperature, feels-like temperature, dew point, heat index, wet bulb, Wet Bulb Globe Temperature, CO2, and noise; plus up to seven extra CO2 and noise channels
Soil and plantsUp to 16 soil-temperature, soil-moisture, and soil-salinity channels; four soil-tension channels; nine soil-permittivity channels; water potential; four leaf-temperature channels; eight leaf-wetness channels; and leaf-wetness duration
EphemerisAstronomical, nautical, and civil dawn and dusk; sunrise and sunset; moonrise and moonset; moon phase; and moon illumination
Other weather contextForecast rule and forecast description when supplied by the source

Presentation by view

Each view presents the part of the catalog suited to its purpose.

ViewMeasurement coverage
Real TimeCurated cards for common current conditions plus current scalar cards for supported comfort, indoor, extra-channel, and air-quality metrics
HistoricalCharts for supported temperature and comfort metrics, humidity, rain, wind, lightning, evapotranspiration, leaf wetness, pressure, solar and UV, air quality, indoor conditions, and extra channels
Observations and observation detailsThe broadest inspection surfaces, including weather metrics, soil and plant channels, event times, derived values, and provider diagnostics stored with an observation or summary
WidgetsExact numeric metrics from the selected station’s mirrored catalog, subject to the chosen preset and widget capacity
MapA compact provider- and station-dependent subset suited to map markers and station selection

Weather Fusion presents gateway, battery, signal, firmware, and uptime values in Device Health. These values support station diagnosis and remain separate from weather measurement families.

Availability rules

A metric appears when all required layers are available:

  1. The provider exposes the field through the configured account or local connection.
  2. The station or attached sensor supplies the source reading.
  3. The selected view supports that metric and presentation form.
  4. Stored observations or summaries cover the selected period when the view uses history.

Unit preferences change presentation while preserving stored values. See Real Time card reference, Historical chart reference, and Provider and sensor availability for surface-specific details.

When the station or connection service shows a measurement that is missing from Weather Fusion, follow Fix a missing measurement to collect the information needed for investigation.