Weather Data

Interesting weather data resources

Datasets

NCEI Data Service API User Documentation

https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/support/access-data-service-api-user-documentation

NHC Active Storm JSON Feed

Updated every 2 minutes, provides the same data available on the NHC website.

Automated Tropical Cyclone Forecast (ATCF)

Designed to assist forecasters with the process of making tropical cyclone forecasts.

ATCF Floater Images

These floaters are fully automated and dependent upon input to the Automated Tropical Cyclone Forecast (ATCF) system, which is provided by the National Hurricane Center (NHC), Central Pacific Hurricane Center (CPHC) and the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC). Once these agencies have input their last fix into the ATCF, our web floater remains active for an additional 18 hours before being removed.

https://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/TROP/floaters_temp.html

NCEI ISD (Integrated Surface Dataset)

Composed of worldwide surface weather observations from over 35,000 stations

https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/metadata/landing-page/bin/iso?id=gov.noaa.ncdc:C00532

Sea Surface Temperatures

NOAA High-Resolution Sea Surface Temperature (SST) Analysis Products

Sea Wind Data

NOAA NCEI Blended Seawinds (NBS v2) - not sure if this also includes land winds

https://coastwatch.noaa.gov/cwn/products/noaa-ncei-blended-seawinds-nbs-v2.html

NCEI GHCN (Global Historical Climatology Network)

https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/data/global-historical-climatology-network-daily/doc/

Sounding Archives

NOAA Datasets on AWS

https://github.com/awslabs/open-data-docs/tree/main/docs/noaa

Hurricane Data

Tropical Atlantic - Weather Model Listing

http://tropicalatlantic.com/models/models.cgi?page=models

NHC Track and Intensity Models

https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/modelsummary.shtml

South Florida Water Management Info page

https://apps.sfwmd.gov/sfwmd/common/images/weather/plots.html

Forcasts

NWS Marine Text Forcast and Products Listing

https://www.weather.gov/marine/forecast

Weather Models

NOMADS Data

https://nomads.ncep.noaa.gov/

Resources

NOAA Datafest

https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/data-research-services/data-collections/datafest

NEDTalks

Cool WX talks provided by NOAA (NOAA Environmental Data Talks).

https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/data-research-services/data-collections/datafest/nedtalks

SWPS (Space Weather Predicition Center) JSON Data

https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/news/new-json-data-now-available

GOES Satellite Data

https://services.swpc.noaa.gov/json/goes/

NWS JSON/REST API

https://weather-gov.github.io/api/general-faqs

Lat/Lon Data

https://api.weather.gov/points/30.2612,-97.7473

Storm Trackers

https://www.spotternetwork.org/pages/feeds/gibson-ridge

AirQuality

AirNow

AirNow is a partnership of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Park Service, NASA, Centers for Disease Control, and tribal, state, and local air quality agencies.

https://files.airnowtech.org/

Cool Stuff

Hurricane Lab

They made a giant box of water and attached a big fan to it to emualte cat 5 hurricane effects on storm surge.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6c20IqR2mw

Fire and Smoke Map

https://fire.airnow.gov/

NYT 3D Representation of Dixie Wildfire

How the team at NYT recreated the Dixie Wildfire’s plume from radar and satellite data.

https://open.nytimes.com/how-we-recreated-the-dixie-wildfires-plume-from-radar-and-satellite-data-d6e829a727cd

CFS Severe Weather Guidance Dashboard

https://www.spc.noaa.gov/exper/CFS_Dashboard/

Discussion: https://stormtrack.org/community/threads/discussing-cfs-dashboard-verification-usefulness.30119/

Brian Wigginton