Feet, not inches. That’s how parts of Florida were measuring rainfall in late Spring 2024.
While there are various tools for monitoring rainfall, directly measured observations help provide the best ground truth and validation.
However, rainfall measurements are rather disparate in terms of reporting frequency, format, and latency.
Synoptic Data’s Precipitation Service provides 3 benefits to overcome these challenges:
1. Data Curation
- Weather stations measure rainfall in 20+ different ways.
- Synoptic’s Precipitation service normalizes all measurements to one format to easily compare rainfall across stations.
- The Precipitation Services allows you to retrieve rainfall accumulation or interval data for any specified time window.
2. Quality Control
- All weather observations go through 80+ QC checks at Synoptic Data.
- Precipitation data goes through additional QC checks to help remove any spurious rainfall measurements.
- The Precipitation Service returns rainfall data with greater utility and fidelity.
3. Low latency
- Synoptic Data’s system is designed to aggregate over 100,000 weather stations from over 300 different networks.
- Quality control and normalization of precipitation data happens in seconds.
- The Precipitation Service returns to you rainfall data on the order of milliseconds.
You can learn more about our curated precipitation service at https://synopticdata.com/value-add-services/precipitation/.
You can also get started with a trial of our API to start requesting data at https://customer.synopticdata.com/signup-targeted/?signup=enterprise.