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Sweet! Daryl is very cool and busy coming up with cool stuff.. He has some awesome stuff out there. This is him on Twitter. I wonder if he will be adding more regions.
There is another way to retrieve archives and have the ability to zoom into specific areas but requires some steps and a software.
Click on Radar Site with map here and download files. (It gets annoying after a while to save each file when emailed but once uploaded with the software it's pretty darn cool to have) NEXRAD Data Inventory Search | National Climatic Data Center
Click on Radar Site with map here and download files. (It gets annoying after a while to save each file when emailed but once uploaded with the software it's pretty darn cool to have) NEXRAD Data Inventory Search | National Climatic Data Center
The bottom left link on that page is an interactive map with radar frames every 5 minutes 1995-present. Perfect! Just type in the date and time and hit update map.
This is very helpful to me since I love to watch how storms form and didn't always have radar with me. I've been searching through past seasonal threads here on the weather forum as well as Twitter accounts to see if anyone had posted a radar screenshot from certain days.
Figure I do a quick update on this with the better link and map...
How to find Weather Data for all U.S locations available through NOAA/NWS..
1. Go to this link to choose which location you want to see data for. Each NWS office covers certain areas so not all offices will cover an entire state that's why there are multiple links for each state.. SERCC NOAA NOWData
You can use this Map to get an idea of the coverage areas from the offices. For instance if you look at Long Island, NY you can see that NWS NY office there covers Northeast NJ as well.
There is a lot of stuff you can check but To keep this post short and sweet, here's a look at how to see monthly precip data.
Remember.. the first locations that have "area" in them are the official Climate sites and cover every location they've moved from and to. The others are the co-op sites and may or may not be quality controlled so heads up on that.. Some offices only have 1 official Climo site like Burlington Vermont.
Choose location..
Choose product.. We are going to look at data for every month on record
Choose Options.. "por" = 1st yr of records. I chose Precip and Sum
Click Go..
Here are the results... You can enlarge the results and even click on the month to sort out to see what the Wettest or driest month was. Records started October 1878 there for Atlanta.
Bottom 3 rows has the Mean-Max-Min.
The most rainfall they received in August was 10.04" in 1920.
You can check Temps, Snowfall, Snow depth. You can check the records for each calendar day. You can check normals, First and Last dates for something, Daily Data for a particular month.
You can even get graphs made there there.
Impossible to list and show everything, but don't hesitate to ask questions. Others on this forum and myself can help.
I haven't used it enough or double checked anything to know if its ok or not. Hopefully they simply used NWS data and just entered it in their own format. But something new to check out if you want.
Very hard to navigate. Why couldn't they just let us click "monthly" and have a drop down list or a map. Even the link just has the stations call numbers instead of the 3 letter station code which we could of easily changed.
Anyway -- Maybe someone will play around with it and let us know.
1. Choose Variable. Precip, Temps, Temp Max, Temp Min, Heating, Cooling
2. Choose plot. Mean, Rank, Percentile, Anomaly
3. Choose base period. I usually use 1981-2010 since it relates to current
4. Choose months.
5. Choose years you want to blend those months you chose
6. Optional to make graph bigger
So I chose to show the precip departures for months of June and July for 1990 and 2015. (Just a random pick for purpose of this example)
The result is this.. Blending 1990 and 2015 June & July months it was a Wet Mid West and Ohio Valley and Dry southeast.
This site is great for not only retrieving single month or yearly data, but to figure out analogs such as particular years we had La Nina in Summer, or a negative NAO month, or ect ect.
This will bring up the world map. If you type a location in the Locator box, you can go to directly to that location. Otherwise, you can zoom in and out with the map tools.
From what I see, you can't click on a station directly. Instead, there is the Select by Rectangle option in the Select Tools box. There are other options too; I haven't tried them out.
Once you have selected the area with the station you want, a box will appear showing all of the stations you selected. You can choose one or more stations. Click Get Selected Data.
A new tab/window will show up. Enter your email the data will be sent to and the date period you want.
For Climate Delivery Format, go here for examples of how the data will look when you get it.
Go to continue and follow the rest of the steps. The "order" is free, so don't worry about that. They say that it might take 24-36 hours, but it took me less than 5 minutes to get all of the monthly data (1891-2012) from the weather station at the University of Michigan.
I can't get it to work on my smartphone, will it only work on a PC/Laptop?
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