MesoWest
Precipitation Summary
MesoWest has been designed for use by National Weather Service
meteorologists and other professionals for protection of life and property.
Comments and suggestions for improvement are encouraged and can
be sent to meteo-mesowest@lists.utah.edu.
The
Precipitation Summary provides access to precipitation totals over various
time intervals for all available weather stations within the selected region.
The Precipitation Summary also displays the days since various threshold values
of precipitation were recorded during a calendar day (midnight to midnight).
Settings
The user can change the settings as follows:
- network type: RAWS, NWS/FAA and RAWS, or all networks
- region of interest: GACC, County Warning Area, Fire Weather Zone, or State
Tabular Format
The first column contains the station name defined by participating agencies or
firms. Long names are truncated. The second column contains the network name.
The next 5 columns are totals (in inches) of precipitation 2 days, 5 days, 7 days,
10 days, and 30 days previous to the current time. The next 5 columns contain
the number of days since the threshold value given in the column header was recorded
at a station in one day (local midnight to midnight). A value of zero days indicates
that the threshold has been reached during the current calendar day. A dashed
line indicates that the threshold has not been reached since December 1, 2002.
Stations can be ordered either alphabetically by name, or by elevation from highest
to lowest, by clicking on the corresponding link at the top of the tabular data..
The maximum, minimum, and average values for each subregion are summarized for
that subregion.
Subregions within the geographic region of interest are defined as follows:
- Geographic Area Coordination Center: Predictive Service Areas (PSAs)
- National Weather Service County Warning Area: forecast zones
- National Weather Service Fire Weather Zone: fire weather forecast zone
- State: counties
Work in Progress
- Precipitation totals may be incorrect occasionally for NWS stations due
to irregular reporting intervals
- Quality control of precipitation data is limited to gross checks