Questions tagged [weather]
Atmospheric conditions at a specific place and time, such as temperature and precipitation. For such variables tracked over time, use the climate tag.
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Finding hurricane metadata
How do I find metadata shapefiles for hurricanes that occurred in Florida? I have tried searching for it but I don't know what I'm looking at.
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Adding WMS layer with extra parameters using QGIS
I am not very experienced in GIS in general, but I am trying to add a WMS layer into a QGIS map.
The issue is that this particular layer includes extra parameters.
It's from http://www.bom.gov.au/...
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How to create contour map for wind speed using Geoserver?
I am new to using Geoserver and I am trying to create a contour map for wind speed. Is this SLD style correct to solve my problem?
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looping on fixed-width format file and changing them to NetCDF format
I have fixed-width format file of temperature data provided by University of Delaware.
For more information on the files, including links to download and the function to read them see: Format of ...
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Format of Temperature data from University of Delaware
I am downloading Temperature data from University of Delaware (http://climate.geog.udel.edu/~climate/html_pages/download.html). In it data which I am downloading is under the following head: "...
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How to properly superimpose weather radar data on map
I am trying to superimpose weather radar data onto a map. It needs to be done programmatically as this will be part of a program (python) that displays weather data. It is not browser based, and ...
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Error using geom_join to join nearest coordinate data
I am currently trying to join weather data from NOAA dataset that I have acquired to a county census data set. This is necessary because the NOAA data is given by Weather station and not by town, ...
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Data warehouse for ERA-5 data
I'm new to GIS an this kind of data.
I want to create for my team an easy way to obtain weather data.
We are using https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/cdsapp#!/dataset/reanalysis-era5-land?tab=overview ...
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Adding drop shadows to shapefile
How can I add a drop shadow to shapefiles and have them show up on another software?
I have weather radar, WSV3, and I created my own custom county map, but i'm wanting to add drop shadows to the map ...
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Interpolating weather data in QGIS
I am trying to find a proper way to interpolate weather data and use it for regions without the data.
The black points are the weather stations that give me the weather data, the red points are the ...
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How to capture real time weather data of points using OpenWeatherMap
I want to set points on a map layer with autofilled data in some fields in the attribute table, which already works fine with date/time and username/observer.
Is there also a way to capture real time ...
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Google Earth Engine: how to use buffer function
I am using the following codes to extract weather data for a list of point with longitude and latitude. Now I would like to have the data for a buffer of 1km for each data.
var temp = ee....
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MapServer: How to find all high and low spots in a raster?
I'm currently tinkering with MapServer to see if it could work as a backend for the remodel of my hobby stormchaser website.
Is it possible (in MapServer) to find all high and low spots in a raster ...
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Algorithm to find low/high atmospheric pressure systems in gridded raster data
What's the commonly used algorithm for finding center positions and values of low/high atmospheric pressure systems in gridded raster data (GRIB/NetCDF/GeoTIFF)?
First I tried a naive approach to ...
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Reproject file to line up with geographic features on a map
I have been trying to reproject data to match the "geographic features" on a map (and also shapefiles) in QGIS or on the web. I'm ingesting raw GRIB data (available here). I'm using python ...
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Converting NetCDF WRF weather forecasts from a custom Lambert Conformal Conical projection to WSG84
I'm having some trouble reading a WRF weather forecast prediction file where the coordinates are in a custom Lambert Conformal Conical projection.
My final goal is to get the weather forecast a a ...
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Finding the average of a raster across a given region, in R, for many points in time
I have a time-series of rasters (daily maps of global temperature for the past year), and a shape-file outlining state boundaries.
I'd like to find the average temperature in each state on each day of ...
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Adding weather radar data to leaflet from website
I am looking to add a specific layer from this website (https://www.iweathernet.com/total-rainfall-map-24-hours-to-72-hours) to a leaflet map in R. I have tried the code below, but the data does not ...
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Adding 7 days weather forecast to QGIS project
The Qweather Plugin with Yahoo Weather API gives me the real time weather info I want but I also want to add seven days weather forecast to my QGIS project. How can I implement this?
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UMEP Copernicus downloader ERA5 throwing Python Error
I am very new to using UMEP and I have installed it on QGIS 3.10 on MacOS and also on Windows but in both machines, I am running into the following error. I have set up my id/key API properly as I can ...
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How do I get average temperatures and precipitation data into QGIS or SAGA GIS?
I need average temperatures and precipitation data (if possible as grid) for Germany and I found this source: https://opendata.dwd.de/climate_environment/CDC/
But I have no idea on how to load it ...
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Query the lowest temperature from single GFS forecast with GEE
My goal is to get the lowest temperature from a given GFS forecast.
// import GFS forecast collection
var gfs_dataset = ee.ImageCollection('NOAA/GFS0P25');
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var ...
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Adding JAXA weather map tiles in Leaflet
Is there any way I can add JAXA rainfall layer as a Leaflet layer. If not what other options are available for rainfall/ppt layer other than OpenWeather map?
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Data for average monthly high/low by zipcode
I am looking for data that will provide average monthly temperatures by zip codes in the US. I require only a year or two worth of historical data, as I am only looking for general trends.
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Is there a program to read all the data contained in a waypoint in a .gpx track file and assign it to a variable?
This is related to geodata. I am a plant explorer and go into Ecuador and Peru looking for new species of plants. I take close to 1000 pictures each time I go, and I use a Garmin Oregon GPS device ...
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Extracting data from multiple raster layers in QGIS [duplicate]
I have a raster layer containing climatic monthly data:
rainfall
maximum and minimum temperatures
There is one layer for each variable and month.
I want to extract the average and maximum values ...
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Visualizing Weather Data in real-time/online with QGIS [closed]
I have been searching for quite some time now, but I can't seem to find the answer by myself.
I did come across some things that helped me a bit, but many answers on this topic were from quite some ...
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Creating climate maps in QGIS? [closed]
I have millions of points having temperature and humidity information covering the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).
How can I create animated heatmaps/hotspot maps of change over time? The data ...
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Where do those cloud data overlay images come from
Certain time-based (rain) cloud data appears on different sites and apps. This gives the impression that the rain and cloud data is available (for free or licensable), and that multiple sites make use ...
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Using GDAL to read data from GRIB file in Python?
I am attempting to use GDAL to read corresponding latitude, longitude, and temperature values from a GRIB file. I would like to store these data points in a 2-D list. I was able to do this using the ...
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Making base maps for weather limited to exact space and output dimension in QGIS?
I need to make some pretty basemaps and wish to use QGIS. The program which will use the basemaps is GrADS, which doesn't read any navigated imagery like geoTIFF or kml. However it produces KML ...
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snow data for US
I'm an amateur to weather. I'm trying to find a snow data set for my weather impact sales project. I need daily snow depth and snow total for different region or states.
I found this : http://nsidc....
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Seeking source for grib data download?
I am trying to integrate wind maps into an existing map and I would like to download the latest wind data for a local area like zyGrib does and then attach it into the map.
I am aware that there are ...
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How to set style for a Wind - point layer on GeoServer
I am serving a Wind as a point layer on GeoServer.
In each point I have data:
wind speed [m/s] and
wind direction [degrees]
Currently I am using default style, but I would like to be able to change ...
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Adding weather information to QGIS atlas composer
I'd like to add a tabular weather forecast with climatic variables like temperature, wind, and chance of precipitation to my QGIS atlas composer. Does anyone have suggestions on how I can do this?
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Weather radar imagery
Are there any services besides the NOAA that offer weather radar imagery for free? Some of the issues our users have with the images from nowcoast/radar_meteo_imagery_nexrad_time are the colors and ...
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Get CSV of specific data from NOAA NAM-NMM Dataset using wgrib2
I am trying to get data from the NAM-NMM Dataset and am having a lot of trouble getting the data I want out of the grb2 files. How can I get a CSV file containing information like Probability of ...
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How to analyze temporal change in wind?
I have daily data for several years (GRIB but also available as netCDF), I would like to investigate how the wind speed and direction has changed along the migratory route of a bird (in spring) and ...
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ISA Model and GFS data
I have a newbie question...
I always used the International Standard Atmosphere model whenever I needed to calculate the temperature in a given altitude.
It always looked accurate to me...
However,...
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Interpolate grib2 data from GFS
I downloaded a grib2 file containing GFS data.
I need to get wind and temperature from altitudes ranging from 1000 ft to 42000 ft
I know the grib2 (GFS) only have data for specific "isobaricInhPa" ...
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Open Source Historical Weather Data API
My client requires weather data for an application that has wind speed, wind direction aggregated by zip code for individual days of the week. Where can this be acquired to be used in an Esri Web ...
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Changing temperature range in thermographic map using QGIS
I need to know how to set temperature range from thermographic map to be from 100-120° C using QGIS. In that case I would see just the temperatures from 100-120° C.
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Real-time weather for ArcGIS online
Does anyone know of real-time weather (temp and precip) data for the US that I can bring into ArcGIS online as a layer and also download as a csv?
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Looking for Historical wind data (direction/speed) for E. Africa or greater
Does anybody know of a source for wind data ~04 - 14 for E. Africa or a larger area. I have looked at a number of sources but have not found anything for these consecutive years.
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How to get value of uvIndex for a particular latitude and longitude from a grib2 file?
I'm trying to find out the uvIndex of a particular set of lat,lng. I'm getting the data file from this link. I'm using pygrib to read the file.
import pygrib
grbs = pygrib.open('uv.t12z.grbf01.grib2'...
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Why are there holes in these radar blobs?
I was recently looking at a live weather radar online and I noticed several "holes" in the radar blobs usually near the center of the blob. I also noticed that in a few cases that the holes stayed in ...
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Ways of merging weather data from different timezones
Does anyone know of any simple means for merging (inverse distance weighting method) hourly weather files (precip, temp, etc.) from different timezones?
I am creating weather data for HUC8s, and am ...
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Historical NWS GFS forecast data
The National Weather Service (NWS) makes the results from its Global Forecast System model (GFS) available for download as GRIB2 files.
While accessing current (or recent) forecasts is straight-...
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How to extract specific information from GRIB files?
How to extract fetched GRIB data with Python and gribapi package (link goes to official ECMWF Wiki)? I tried to follow few examples from their "documentation" and do it myself, but I just cannot ...
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GIS Information for Netherlands [closed]
I am currently interested in any kind of GIS Information about Netherlands. I need it for some kind of research. Such informations as temperature, soil composition, precipitation, elevation are very ...
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