NOAA U.S. Climate Normals

Stream data with DDA:

from dagshub.streaming import DagsHubFilesystem

fs = DagsHubFilesystem(".", repo_url="https://dagshub.com/DagsHub-Datasets/noaa-climate-normals-dataset")

fs.listdir("s3://noaa-normals-pds")

Description:

The U.S. Climate Normals are a large suite of data products that provide information about typical climate conditions for thousands of locations across the United States. Normals act both as a ruler to compare today’s weather and tomorrow’s forecast, and as a predictor of conditions in the near future. The official normals are calculated for a uniform 30 year period, and consist of annual/seasonal, monthly, daily, and hourly averages and statistics of temperature, precipitation, and other climatological variables from almost 15,000 U.S. weather stations.

NCEI generates the official U.S. normals every 10 years in keeping with the needs of our user community and the requirements of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and National Weather Service (NWS). The 1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals are the latest in a series of decadal normals first produced in the 1950s. These data allow travelers to pack the right clothes, farmers to plant the best crop varieties, and utilities to plan for seasonal energy usage. Many other important economic decisions that are made beyond the predictive range of standard weather forecasts are either based on or influenced by climate normals.

Contact:

The U.S. Climate Normals are a large suite of data products that provide information about typical climate conditions for thousands of locations across the United States. Normals act both as a ruler to compare today’s weather and tomorrow’s forecast, and as a predictor of conditions in the near future. The official normals are calculated for a uniform 30 year period, and consist of annual/seasonal, monthly, daily, and hourly averages and statistics of temperature, precipitation, and other climatological variables from almost 15,000 U.S. weather stations.

NCEI generates the official U.S. normals every 10 years in keeping with the needs of our user community and the requirements of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and National Weather Service (NWS). The 1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals are the latest in a series of decadal normals first produced in the 1950s. These data allow travelers to pack the right clothes, farmers to plant the best crop varieties, and utilities to plan for seasonal energy usage. Many other important economic decisions that are made beyond the predictive range of standard weather forecasts are either based on or influenced by climate normals.

Update Frequency:

Data is updated on 10 year cycles or when corrections are implemented.

Managed By:

http://www.noaa.gov/

Collabs:

• ASDI:
  • Tags: climate

Resources:

1. resource:
   • Description: U.S. Climate Normals Data
   • ARN: arn:aws:s3:::noaa-normals-pds
   • Region: us-east-1
   • Type: S3 Bucket
   • Explore: Browse Bucket

Tags:

aws-pds, agriculture, climate, meteorological, sustainability, weather

Tutorials:

1. tutorial:
   • Title: Investigating environmental characteristics of US cities using publicly available ASDI datasets using SageMaker Studio Lab (SMSL)
   • URL: https://github.com/aws-samples/aws-asdi-cities-smsl-notebook/
   • NotebookURL: https://github.com/aws-samples/aws-asdi-cities-smsl-notebook/blob/main/ASDI_Cities_Demo.ipynb
   • AuthorName: Darren Ko
   • Services: SageMaker Studio Lab