CWOP is a public-private partnership with three main goals: 1) to collect weather data contributed by citizens; 2) to make these data available for weather services and homeland security; and 3) to provide feedback to the data contributors so that they have the tools to check and improve their data quality. In fact, the web address, wxqa.com, stands for weather quality assurance. Many thanks go to Phillip Gladstone for his dedication to the CWOP program.

The Observatory and Weather Station gather weather data consisting of barometric pressure, temperature, humidity, dew point, wind speed & direction, wind chill, precipitation, lightning activity, u.v. and solar radiation and soil conditions.  A Davis Vantage Pro2 Plus weather station along with a Davis Soil Station and Wireless Envoy logs all weather data and uploads the information using WeatherLink 6.03 software to the Citizen Weather Observer Program and CWOP-Snow thru the APRSWXNET  Data can be viewed at FindU Weather Panel using Station ID# CW6888 and at  CWOP Information Quality Controls which produces a visualization of data analysis and accuracy after it has passed thru Madis and before it is sent to agencies such as NOAA including NOAA's National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center, where it is made available to forecaster's, pilots and the general public. The weather station sends data to the Weather Underground using the Station ID# KMDWHITE7. The weather station using © SVO WEATHER software also monitors dew point, humidity and temperature inside the Sola Virtus Observatory  as well as wind speed, cloud cover and precipitation via a Davis Wireless Envoy and uploaded using Virtual Weather.