Lazarus Archive · LZ-08660

Weather station logs, Sanddale, 1977–1989

Sanddale Meteorological Station, 1977–1989. Research data for IBM mainframes.

Description

Temperature, rainfall, pressure and wind, recorded every ten minutes by a station that has since closed.

Provenance

Rescued from a skip outside a former office in Silverfield Springs. The label reads ‘Photos’. About 64 percent of the data could be read; the gaps are mapped.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
7936ad96413c4ca78f97bb96c9449de4d66b45da2657c8daf809376ba82bebb9
Last verified
Oct 24, 2026, by Vigil
Migrated to
CSV with a data dictionary, with the original files kept
Copies
Three, on two kinds of storage, in two cities
Original carriers
Kept in cold storage in Vancouver

Access

Free, in the Lazarus reading room in Vancouver and in partner reading rooms.

Reading-room copies are migrated to CSV with a data dictionary, with the original files kept. The recovered files are kept exactly as they were found.

Cite as: Sanddale Meteorological Station, Weather station logs, Sanddale, 1977–1989 (1977–1989). Lazarus Archive, LZ-08660.

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