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OPTIONS

Find active stations for chosen period.
Show Inch on map
Dashboard
Calendar

Three ways to provide station:

from drop down list
choosing "other"
clicking on station icon on map

URL Sample

https://api.synopticdata.com/v2/stations/timeseries?stid=SFOC1&start=202303300701&end=202304010659&precip=1&units=english&obtimezone=local&token=79608f479e304314b32360afafabf841

STATIONS

https://api.synopticdata.com/v2/stations/metadata?&token={Your API Token}&obrange=20150101,20150501&county=san francisco&status=active&country=us&state=ca

JSON

{"UNITS":{"precipitation":"Inches"},"STATION":[{"STATUS":"ACTIVE","MNET_ID":"106","PERIOD_OF_RECORD":{"start":"2007-03-23T00:00:00Z","end":"2021-12-10T17:43:00Z"},"ELEVATION":"150","NAME":"SAN FRANCISCO DOWNTOWN","STID":"SFOC1","ELEV_DEM":"157.5","LONGITUDE":"-122.42694","STATE":"CA","OBSERVATIONS":{"precipitation":[{"count":1,"first_report":"2021-12-03T04:43:00-0800","interval":1,"report_type":"precip_accum","last_report":"2021-12-03T04:43:00-0800","total":0.0}, {"count":1,"first_report":"2021-12-03T05:43:00-0800","interval":2,"report_type":"precip_accum","last_report":"2021-12-03T05:43:00-0800","total":0.0}, {"count":1,"first_report":"2021-12-03T06:43:00-0800","interval":3,"report_type":"precip_accum","last_report":"2021-12-03T06:43:00-0800","total":0.0}, ... ... {"count":1,"first_report":"2021-12-10T02:43:00-0800","interval":167,"report_type":"precip_accum","last_report":"2021-12-10T02:43:00-0800","total":0.0}, {"count":1,"first_report":"2021-12-10T03:43:00-0800","interval":168,"report_type":"precip_accum","last_report":"2021-12-10T03:43:00-0800","total":0.0}]}, "RESTRICTED":false,"LATITUDE":"37.77056","TIMEZONE":"America\/Los_Angeles","ID":"21034"}], "SUMMARY":{"DATA_QUERY_TIME":8.5589885712,"RESPONSE_CODE":1,"RESPONSE_MESSAGE":"OK","METADATA_RESPONSE_TIME":"1.64604187012 ms", "NUMBER_OF_OBJECTS":1,"PRECIP_DATA_TIME":28.7299156189,"DATA_PARSE_TIME":20.1499462128}}

DEVELOPER

There are limitations to synaptic API using free tier token. Refrain from designing unnecessary or duplicative calls during API development. Limitations for number of API calls is 2000, and number of Service Units is 2 million. When either of these limits is reached, data stops. The response looks like:
{"SUMMARY": {"RESPONSE_CODE": 20, "RESPONSE_MESSAGE": "Account usage has exceeded the free tier. Please see https://synopticdata.com/pricing/ for more options.", "RESPONSE_TIME": "0 ms"}}

The url requires UTC time. Convert local date to UTC. But returned date can be local.

Unused meso.any_county() to map other CA counties stations

REFERENCES

https://developers.synopticdata.com/mesonet/explorer/
https://www.wrh.noaa.gov/mesowest/timeseries.php?wfo=wrh&sid=SFOC1&num=1864
https://www.wrh.noaa.gov/mesowest/getobext.php?wfo=mtr&sid=ksfo&num=948&raw=0
https://www.wrh.noaa.gov/map/?obs=true&wfo=mtr

mesonet api

Example (json data)

https://api.synopticdata.com/v2/stations/precipitation?&token=79608f479e304314b32360afafabf841&start=202110231201&end=202110241201&pmode=intervals&accum_hours=1&units=precip|in&stid=SFOC1&status=active&interval=1

NWS

Stations

PURPOSE