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Weather Underground station network with Alopex DB & Alopex Skulk
The Weather Underground station network gathers data from personal weather stations into Weather Underground, the weather service. What would it look like built on Alopex DB and Alopex Skulk?
Updated: Oct 12, 2026
What the service does
A Weather Underground-like network connects personal weather stations and air quality monitors run by people around the world and gathers hyperlocal weather data. Station owners get dashboards and graphs for their station, an archive of past data, and a way to share it. The data is station details and time series of temperature, humidity, wind, rainfall and other readings.
Where the data lives
- Skulk time series: readings are ingested into Skulk, tagged by station and region.
- Time-bucketed aggregation: dashboard graphs use time buckets for hourly and daily averages. Latest values and comparisons between regions come from PromQL.
- Alopex DB tables: station registrations, owners and locations live in tables.
Deployment
Skulk is embedded in the app server that receives ingest and queries. As stations are added, the same engine grows into a Skulk server and cluster. With Skulk embedded on the station side too, readings taken while the network is down are kept locally. The stored data is Parquet, so analysis of past weather reads it directly in other tools.
Why Alopex DB and Alopex Skulk fit
A station network’s data is numbers with timestamps and tags that never stop arriving. Skulk takes on ingest, storage and aggregation of exactly this shape of data as a library inside the app.
Alopex Skulk runs everything from ingest to PromQL queries inside the app. Give it a try for a station network.