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Weather

NOAA

###15-minute precipitation ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/15min_precip-3260/

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Hourly precipitation

ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/hourly_precip-3240/

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Station Metadata

US station divisions: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/monitoring-references/maps/us-climate-divisions.php
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/homr/
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/homr/reports

  • MSHR, Standard Version (DSI-9767)

Example command to download data

wget --passive-ftp -r ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/15min_precip-3260/04/*

FIPS Lookup

We may need to join weather station data with traffic station data. The main way to do this is via latitude/longitude. Another method is via city/county FIPS code. To assign FIPS to a weather station, we'll have to look it up via a web service:

https://www.fcc.gov/developers/census-block-conversions-api

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