Sources of weather and climate data
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Every March the CoCoRaHS network hosts a competition between states to see who can sign up the most new observers. As March is winding down, you still have a chance to sign up to join the more than 10,000 citizen scientists who help provide this useful information to the National Weather Service, Extension agents, and…
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The National Weather Service has a new experimental product available which provides 6-day forecasts of evapotranspiration in a zoomable map format. A weekly total is also available. You can access this product at https://preview.weather.gov/graphical/. You can find the FRET daily values by looking under Agriculture at the bottom of the product pull-down menu on the top…
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The Climate.gov web site has a good introductory section on climate data. You can find the primer at https://www.climate.gov/maps-data/primer/climate-data-primer. It includes information on how climate is measured, how the data are processed and quality controlled, how past climates are interpreted and how future climate is predicted, and where to get climate data. I also have a…
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At CPASW today we learned that the Climate Prediction Center is in the process of updating their website to a new, cleaner and more interactive model. You can view the new beta version of the website at https://www.cpcpara.ncep.noaa.gov/. This site will combine much of the functionality of the old web site, including climate and drought outlooks,…
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I am attending the Climate Prediction Applications Science Workshop this week in Las Cruces NM. The theme of this year’s meeting is agriculture. After one day, my mind is already full of new web sites to visit and tools that might be useful to those of us who use climate information to make production decisions.…
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I want to take a minute to salute the CoCoRaHS network, who announced today that an official CoCoRaHS rain gauge will be installed in the White House kitchen garden planted this week by Michelle Obama. The addition was celebrated today in Washington DC as part of the National Science Fair activity at the White House.…
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The beautiful weather yesterday set records across many parts of the Southeast. If you are interested in looking at the temperatures or rankings for yourself, the Southeast Regional Climate Center has a good tool called “Perspectives” which allows you to look at the recorded values of recent weather conditions and calculate the ranking of that…