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You have reached my Fairbanks weather page. Here you will find several weather graphs generated using data I collect from various public sources, including Mesonet, the Citizen Weather Observer Program, the National Weather Service, and the Department of Defense. Some of the data is pulled directly from the website reporting the data, and the rest comes from the Meterological Assimilation Data Ingestion System (MADIS).
Data collection is performed using Perl and Python scripts that downloads, parses and stores the data locally. The Unix program gnuplot generates each of the plots in Portable Network Graphic (png) format and PostScript (ps) format. Ghostscript converts the PostScript files into Portable Document Format (pdf).
As of October 2008, we have a continuously reporting weather station at our house on Goldstream Creek. It's an interesting place because it is at the bottom of the valley, and so it's temperatures can be much colder than in the rest of Fairbanks. Information on the station, the data collection methods, data and plots are available at the Goldstream Creek Station pages.
Temperature, dew point and barometric pressure over the last seven days
The red vertical lines indicate temperature and dew point. The lines start at the freezing point and end at the current temperature. The small circle on the bar indicates the dew point. The closer the temperature is to the dew point, the higher the relative humidity. The blue line running across the plot indicates atmospheric pressure. Higher numbers indicate greater pressure, and generally mean better weather.
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Other pages:
Goldstream Creek Data: We have a station at our house on Goldstream Creek, and a variety of data is available from the station page.
Hourly Data
- Current conditions for the Middle Tanana Valley, all reporting stations (table)
- Temperature and pressure at the Fairbanks airport (U.S. Standard Units)
- Temperature and pressure at the Fairbanks airport (Metric Units)
Daily Data, Last 90 days
- Ninety day summary (temperature, precipitation, snowfall)
- Ninety day temperature anomaly (daily mean vs. 30 year average mean temperature)
- Ninety day cloud cover
Daily Data, Last year, 90 day plots
- Ninety day summary, last year (temperature, precipitation, snowfall)
- Ninety day temperature anomaly, last year (daily mean vs. 30 year average mean temperature)
Daily Data, Last 180 days
- 180 day summary (temperature, precipitation, snowfall)
- 180 day temperature anomaly (daily mean vs. 30 year average mean temperature)
Daily Data, Year to date
- Yearly summary (temperature, precipitation, snowfall)
- Yearly temperature anomaly (daily mean vs. 30 year average mean temperature)
Daily Data, Cumulative graphs
- Cumulative precipitation so far this month
- Cumulative snowfall, month to date
- Cumulative snowfall since July 1
- Cumulative precipitation anomaly, year to date
- Cumulative heating degree days since July 1
- Cumulative cooling degree days since June 1
Daily Data, Yearly summaries
- Summary for 2006 (temperature, precipitation, snowfall, cloud cover)
- Summary for 2005 (temperature, precipitation, snowfall, cloud cover)
- Summary for 2004 (temperature, precipitation, snowfall, cloud cover)
- Summary for 2003 (temperature, precipitation, snowfall, cloud cover)
- Summary for 2002 (temperature, precipitation, snowfall)
- Summary for 2001 (temperature, precipitation, snowfall)
- Summary for 2000 (temperature, precipitation, snowfall)
- Summary for 1999 (temperature, precipitation, snowfall)
- Summary for 1998 (temperature, precipitation, snowfall)
Sunrise and sunset times for Fairbanks
Important disclaimer: My data providers and I disclaim liability of any kind whatsoever, including, without limitation, liability for quality, performance, merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose arising out of the use or inability to use the data. This disclaimer applies to all pages at http://swingleydev.com.