One able-bodied person who can climb on a school roof and follow direction holds the balance of a popular Greater Victoria data-gathering weather station.

Andrew Weaver, the founder of the school-based stations dotting Vancouver Island, isn’t worried about finding funding, or software upgrades – physical maintenance is the one remaining hurdle to maintaining the legacy.

“I have received overwhelming support from the communities,” Weaver told Black Press Media. He’s recently been inundated with emails from students, teachers, cyclists, gardeners, runners, boaters and organizations, even Butchart Gardens, looking to keep the “unique for its time” system going.

Weaver started the program in 2002 as a prof at the University of Victoria, with systems recording weather data atop schools acros

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