Fickle Heights Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 Hello! First post here. I'm just another LAF-area based poster checking in, haha. I've been working for a while on a weather database for the J&C (local newspaper), and it's finally complete. This is a compliation of all the weather data from the co-op station West Lafayette 6 NW, not the airport. The searchable weather database has daily data available from 1902 through today. Additionally, there's a pdf available there that has daily weather data with the observers comments available from July 1, 1887, through Dec. 31, 1901. The searchable weather database is available at www.jconline.com/weatherdb The pdf of 19th century data is available for download at http://www.jconline....F/weatherdb.pdf Here's a link to an interview with me about how all this came together: http://www.jconline....-Check-database Finally, I've been putting the finishing touches on a spreadsheet detailing monthly and seasonal data. Here are some stats for extreme winter seasons (Dec-Feb; years shown are the ones in which the winter ended) for Lafayette. I hope to have a lot more in the future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago WX Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 From a fellow Lafayette poster, welcome to the board! I stumbled across this the other day on jconline. Must have been a lot of work. Good job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blue60007 Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 Nice! And welcome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 I'll echo the gentlemen above. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blue60007 Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 The least snowiest winters are surprising to me. We aren't doing half bad at all this winter compared to several of those years Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago WX Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 The least snowiest winters are surprising to me. We aren't doing half bad at all this winter compared to several of those years I've done pretty extensive research on the WL COOP data, along with the other local COOPs...and the one thing I'd take with a grain of salt is the snowfall data. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fickle Heights Posted January 31, 2012 Author Share Posted January 31, 2012 I've done pretty extensive research on the WL COOP data, along with the other local COOPs...and the one thing I'd take with a grain of salt is the snowfall data. Yeah, I worked at the WL coop site for a while when I was student, and it's very exposed to wind. It just blows everything off the snowboard. I live about 20 mintues SE of Lafayette, and it's the same way with the wind. Sometimes it's my best guesstimate when doing COCORaHS readings. I really don't know that much about the really old coop data from Purdue. I do know I was taken on the roof of a building on campus that doesn't exist anymore, where the ag administration buidling exists today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago WX Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 Yeah, I worked at the WL coop site for a while when I was student, and it's very exposed to wind. It just blows everything off the snowboard. I live about 20 mintues SE of Lafayette, and it's the same way with the wind. Sometimes it's my best guesstimate when doing COCORaHS readings. I really don't know that much about the really old coop data from Purdue. I do know I was taken on the roof of a building on campus that doesn't exist anymore, where the ag administration buidling exists today. Yeah, snowfall data is probably the least exact thing in "measured weather". We've already had a snow this winter where a best guess was probably the route to take. Cool stuff about where the old data was taken. That may explain some of those extreme 1930's summer temps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michsnowfreak Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 I dont even live in LAF but I bookmarked the website, I love old weather data. Good work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fickle Heights Posted January 31, 2012 Author Share Posted January 31, 2012 I dont even live in LAF but I bookmarked the website, I love old weather data. Good work! Thank you! I appreciate it. It took me about three weeks to get everything copied, but it was a labor of love. There are some really neat things in the pdf, including wind obs from the Galveston hurricane remnants, a couple of earthquakes and lots of eclipse and Northern Lights sightings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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