On: NOAA upgrades the U.S. global weather forecast model

[Tempest1981]

A while back, I found a NOAA search that showed historic chance of rain by month:

https://www.wrh.noaa.gov/images/mtr/sjc_pcpn_prob.gif

Since then, I spent hours trying to find this page again, unsuccessfully. All I have is this URL for San Jose. (Replacing "sjc" with other airport codes doesn't always work, since "mtr" is a region code?)

Anyone know where this precipitation data lives?

[akie → Tempest1981]

I made this: https://www.wmo.int/cpdb/united-states-of-america - click on “climate normals”

[dymk → akie]

Clicking on the "SEATTLE" link,

    Missing Controller
    Error: Climate.DashboardController could not be found.

[akie → dymk]

That sucks, I’m sorry. I made this about 5 years ago and am no longer involved in the project.

[Tempest1981 → akie]

Thanks for the reply!

Was it accessing/presenting raw NOAA data? Or a different source? I notice the data is thru 1990; different from NOAA.

Is the php source available for reverse engineering?

[akie → Tempest1981]

The data comes from weather stations all across the US, which I assume are managed or operated by NOAA. This project is at the World Meteorological Organization, an international organization of weather organizations - of which the NOAA is a member. Presumably this means it's official NOAA data.

With some minor effort you could extract the raw data, in JSON form, from https://www.wmo.int/cpdb/climate/climate_normal/per_country/...

If I remember correctly the data came from a CD-ROM with historical data. When we put it online the data was already 20 to 25 years old. It was nevertheless the most recent data that we had available, I don't remember the reason why we didn't have anything more recent. The PHP source is (or was) a CakePHP application, and honestly isn't that interesting. There was not more data in the PHP application than what is presented here.

EDIT: It was already a messy application when I got there, I cleaned it up as well as I could, but after I left it seems to have gone downhill again. Ah well. Not my problem anymore.

[Tempest1981 → akie]

Thanks again -- interesting to learn about this space! I wasn't aware of WMO.