[UW-GIS-L] NOAA Weather Data Help

[Luke Rogers]

You might try Climate NA or Prism.

https://climatena.ca/
http://www.prism.washington.edu/home

-Luke

From: Uw-gis-l <uw-gis-l-bounces at mailman13.u.washington.edu> On Behalf Of Emily Dalgo
Sent: Thursday, November 2, 2023 11:00 AM
To: uw-gis-l at u.washington.edu
Subject: [UW-GIS-L] NOAA Weather Data Help

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<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/search__;!!K-Hz7m0Vt54!ims3pyNFjW9flVXPC5-KDskBpgeT-bcJoCjA1UixOFSRLlsVyQSunD-YbENcQwUMjNoHqmtLc7fstOA$>. The tool does not give weather data for zip codes containing no weather station, so I have been manually hand coding the nearest weather station using the the tools at https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/maps/daily-summaries/<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.ncei.noaa.gov/maps/daily-summaries/__;!!K-Hz7m0Vt54!ims3pyNFjW9flVXPC5-KDskBpgeT-bcJoCjA1UixOFSRLlsVyQSunD-YbENcQwUMjNoHqmtLTICGMEI$>

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/<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.ncei.noaa.gov/data/daily-summaries/access/__;!!K-Hz7m0Vt54!ims3pyNFjW9flVXPC5-KDskBpgeT-bcJoCjA1UixOFSRLlsVyQSunD-YbENcQwUMjNoHqmtLigOyH3c$> 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


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Emily Dalgo
Graduate Student, Department of Sociology
University of Washington
edalgo at uw.edu<mailto:edalgo at uw.edu>
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