Hello all,
I'm trying to test out a predictive model but I'm having a very hard time trying to find hourly precipitation data. I've looked at NOAA and on the new data repository (NCDC) but I can't find hourly or 15 minute interval data past 2014. Am I missing something here? Is there an alternative source I don't know about? If it helps typically this is the weather station I have pulled from in the past: USW00014819.
Any help is appreciated. Thanks.
1- You can access daily data from 1973 through Tutiempo service site. https://en.tutiempo.net/climate/ws-725340.html
The site's data is good and updated frequently. The problem is that you should web-scrap the station you want to get the data in csv format or so.
2- There is also a daily source through NOAA, for your station through this link
https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/datasets/GHCND/stations/GHCND:USW00094846/detail
The available data are starting from 1946 to present.
3- The third source that requires web-scraping too is the weather underground site which has data from the early fifties to present but in HOURLY basis
a sample is in this link
https://www.wunderground.com/history/daily/us/il/chicago/KMDW/date/1955-10-30
Note: You can do web-scrapping using python as described here ( https://www.edureka.co/blog/web-scraping-with-python/ ).
Best regards.
Thanks Mohammad N. Elnesr , but it seems options 1 and 2 don't have hourly data about precipitation. #2 is great for daily counts but I need something more granular.
Looks like #3 is the way to go but I have to outsource the Python. :/
Hourly data including precipitation for recent years is available from ECMWF-ER5 data sets and it can be accessed from this link
https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/cdsapp#!/dataset/reanalysis-era5-land?tab=overview
you can specify a multitude of variable to create your data set
Interesting question. Have you checked with their Customer Support? Let us know what they say. https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/customer-support
Geoffrey M. Bonnin
Success! I called the customer service line and the nice woman knew exactly what I was talking about. For whatever reason the UI they are using does not have past 2014. But on the back end where you request the data it has all the most recent data. See it here: https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/datatools/lcd
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