Sources of weather and climate data
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NOAA has a (new to me) snazzy web site which provides access to 1792 data sets in 115 collections. It’s called the Digital Coast and you can see it and use it to search for your data needs at https://coast.noaa.gov/dataregistry/search/collection. The data range from bathymetry to aquaculture to sea bird counts. It also includes several climate-related…
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Keeping with our theme of snow for the day, here’s an interesting video story about a man who took snowfall measurements for 40 years in a Colorado town, just to pass the time. The data were finally discovered by climate scientists, who have used it to look at changes in snowfall over time. You can…
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When I called my mom in Michigan today, she talked about how much snow they were getting. She lives (and I grew up) in western lower Michigan, where lake-effect snow often falls this time of year. In fact, this year the snow is especially heavy because the Great Lakes have been and still are well…
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Now that the cold weather has finally hit the Southeast, it is time to prepare for possible winter storm activity. Just like any other potential weather emergency, the best way to survive a dangerous weather situation is to prepare in advance. Ready GA has a great web site with a lot of good information on…
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The National Weather Service noted that new experimental snowfall maps will be available this year for a number of stations across the US, including several in the Southeast. The new maps will show ranges of potential snowfall as well as probabilities of different amounts. That could provide some very useful additional information to what is…
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The New York Times has a list of weather apps that you might find useful over the coming months. I haven’t tried them yet, but I plan to soon. You can find the article and list here.
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I got a recent question about how to access hourly weather data from NWS airport stations online. There are several sources for this information; I am going to give you one option. Another source is the Midwestern Regional Climate Center at https://mrcc.isws.illinois.edu/CLIMATE/. Start with the current Local Climatological Data at the National Centers for Environmental Information…