{"id":9159,"date":"2016-11-16T14:05:41","date_gmt":"2016-11-16T19:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=9159"},"modified":"2016-11-16T14:53:13","modified_gmt":"2016-11-16T19:53:13","slug":"how-to-get-hourly-airport-weather-data-from-ncei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/11\/how-to-get-hourly-airport-weather-data-from-ncei\/","title":{"rendered":"How to get hourly airport weather data from NCEI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got a recent question about how to access hourly weather data from NWS airport stations online. \u00a0There are several sources for this information; I am going to give you one option. \u00a0Another source is the Midwestern Regional Climate Center at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mrcc.isws.illinois.edu\/CLIMATE\/\">https:\/\/mrcc.isws.illinois.edu\/CLIMATE\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Start with the current Local Climatological Data at the National Centers for Environmental Information at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncdc.noaa.gov\/qclcd\/QCLCD?prior=N\">https:\/\/www.ncdc.noaa.gov\/qclcd\/QCLCD?prior=N<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Pick your state and then look on the menu for the station in your state that is the closest to your site and choose that one.<\/p>\n<p>Pick the month you want and then choose either E for entire month or the date you want. \u00a0Pick Hourly from the menu box below the dates (you probably want the HTML version unless you want to import it into Excel, in which case you would use the ASCII comma separated version). \u00a0A new window should pop up with a table of information.<\/p>\n<p>I think most of the fields are pretty self-explanatory. \u00a0Keep in mind that all times are in Local Standard Time so you might have to adjust by an hour for Local Daylight Time. \u00a0Wind directions are in 360 degrees starting with 0 at the north, 90 from the east, 180 from the south, and 270 from the west.<\/p>\n<p>Occasionally you might get a request for certified copies. \u00a0They are available from NCEI at a cost, but many courts in Georgia do not require certified copies and often insurance companies will accept copies gathered off the web like these. \u00a0If you have other questions, please contact me and I am happy to walk you through this.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1856\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1856\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/01\/rain-in-puddle-1059687-m-free-images.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1856\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/01\/rain-in-puddle-1059687-m-free-images-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Source: Free Images\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/01\/rain-in-puddle-1059687-m-free-images.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/01\/rain-in-puddle-1059687-m-free-images-207x138.jpg 207w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1856\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Free Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got a recent question about how to access hourly weather data from NWS airport stations online. \u00a0There are several sources for this information; I am going to give you one option. \u00a0Another source is the Midwestern Regional Climate Center at\u00a0https:\/\/mrcc.isws.illinois.edu\/CLIMATE\/. 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