[UW-GIS-L] NOAA Weather Data Help

[Emily Dalgo]

Good morning all,

I am working on a MA thesis related to the association between weather
patterns and mortality. Ideally, I would like to have daily high
temperatures for all zip codes in the state of Washington for all days
between 2016 and 2021 (years for which I have mortality data).

I have been doing data entry by hand using the search tool at
https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/search
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The tool does not give weather data for zip codes containing no weather
station, so I have been manually hand coding the nearest weather station
using the the tools at https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/maps/daily-summaries/
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I spoke to people at NOAA who said the data I need might be in the files at
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/data/daily-summaries/access/
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but
I have had no luck accessing the files because of their massive size.

Do you have any tips for working with the NOAA metadata? If not, do you
know of a different easily-accessible source of data on high temperatures
by day (or even by weather station that can be linked to zip codes)?

Thanks in advance for any ideas about this.

Emily Dalgo


-- 
*Emily Dalgo*
Graduate Student, Department of Sociology
University of Washington
edalgo at uw.edu
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