Why we built it
Hyperlocal data,
for the people in the water.
Sri Lanka has very few data points for meteorology. Weather forecasts here are notoriously unreliable.
Surfers can't find accurate, reliable conditions, and the official weather stations are typically far away from the surf spots they care about. That gap is exactly why we set up the Ecowitt WS90: to offer genuinely hyperlocal data to people in the area, measured right at Rams rather than guessed from kilometres inland.
The station feeds this live dashboard, but the data doesn't stop here. We also send it to Windy.com, where it's published into their network and made visible to anyone planning around the Midigama coast.
And we offered the data, free of charge, to Sri Lanka's Department of Meteorology. In a country with so few measurement points, every reliable station helps, so it felt right to make ours open rather than keep it to ourselves.
That last part is really how the whole thing started. The unreliable forecasts, the missing data near the breaks: the WS90 was our small answer to it. If you're surfing Rams, the numbers above are the real conditions, not an approximation.