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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 https://www.wrh.noaa.go

by Tempest1981 7y ago

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 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 7y ago
I made this: https://www.wmo.int/cpdb/united-states-of-america https://www.wmo.int/cpdb/united-states-of-america - click on “climate normals”
- dymk 7y ago
  Clicking on the "SEATTLE" link, Missing Controller Error: Climate.DashboardController could not be found.
  - akie 7y ago
    That sucks, I’m sorry. I made this about 5 years ago and am no longer involved in the project.
    - Tempest1981 7y ago
      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 7y ago
        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/USA/source:dashboard 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 7y ago
        Thanks again -- interesting to learn about this space! I wasn't aware of WMO.

akie 7y ago

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

dymk 7y ago
Clicking on the "SEATTLE" link, Missing Controller Error: Climate.DashboardController could not be found.
- akie 7y ago
  That sucks, I’m sorry. I made this about 5 years ago and am no longer involved in the project.
  - Tempest1981 7y ago
    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 7y ago
      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/USA/source:dashboard 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 7y ago
        Thanks again -- interesting to learn about this space! I wasn't aware of WMO.