WEATHER OBSERVATIONS - SUMMARY OF THE DAY - FIRST ORDER
Description:
The National Climatic Data Center makes available daily weather data for approximately 300 currently active National Weather Service stations, with a lag time (after end of data month) of about 8-10 weeks. Coverage includes the contiguous United States, Caribbean Islands, Pacific Islands, and other overseas stations of the NWS, FAA, U.S. Navy, and U.S. Air Force. Sixteen parameters for as early as 1869 to present are available. These parameters include average wind speed, cooling degree day, departure from normal temperature, average daily dew point, heating degree days, minimum relative humidity, maximum relative humidity, peak wind gust speed and direction, daily precipitation, average daily station pressure, daily percent of possible sunshine, daily snowfall, snow depth at observation time, daily maximum temperature, daily minimum temperature, daily total sunshine.
Record Details:
Record Type:DATA SET
Product Published Date:02/10/1997
Record Last Revised:12/10/2002
Record ID:
4694
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Geographic Areas:
Title
:WEATHER OBSERVATIONS - SUMMARY OF THE DAY - FIRST ORDER
Version
:1.0
North Boundary
:90
South Boundary
:90
East Boundary
:180
West Boundary
:180
State
:DC
Title
:WEATHER OBSERVATIONS - SUMMARY OF THE DAY - FIRST ORDER
Version
:1.0
North Boundary
:90
South Boundary
:90
East Boundary
:180
West Boundary
:180
State
:WV
Title
:WEATHER OBSERVATIONS - SUMMARY OF THE DAY - FIRST ORDER
Version
:1.0
North Boundary
:90
South Boundary
:90
East Boundary
:180
West Boundary
:180
State
:VA
Title
:WEATHER OBSERVATIONS - SUMMARY OF THE DAY - FIRST ORDER
Version
:1.0
North Boundary
:90
South Boundary
:90
East Boundary
:180
West Boundary
:180
State
:PA
Title
:WEATHER OBSERVATIONS - SUMMARY OF THE DAY - FIRST ORDER
Version
:1.0
North Boundary
:90
South Boundary
:90
East Boundary
:180
West Boundary
:180
State
:MD
Title
:WEATHER OBSERVATIONS - SUMMARY OF THE DAY - FIRST ORDER
Version
:1.0
North Boundary
:90
South Boundary
:90
East Boundary
:180
West Boundary
:180
State
:DE
Quality Assurance:
Title
:WEATHER OBSERVATIONS - SUMMARY OF THE DAY - FIRST ORDER
Data Use & Constraints
:The data are currently stored on 71 magnetic tape cartridges totaling about 5 gigabytes. Tape copies can be made in either the variable length or fixed length record structure.
