Unlock Smarter Weather Insights
Access to accurate weather data is critical to operations for situational awareness and safety. And perhaps an equally important value of having access to environmental data is being able to transform it into meaningful insights. At Synoptic, we’re making that easier than ever with our brand-new Statistics & Percentiles service. Available through our Weather API, this new tool eliminates the need for manual calculations and complex data processing, giving users instant access to historical and real-time weather trends.
Why This Matters
Organizations across industries—from utility companies monitoring energy demand to fire weather analysts assessing wildfire risk—rely on statistical weather insights for decision-making. Traditionally, these users have had to process large datasets, perform quality control, and manually calculate percentiles or averages to assess weather events. With Synoptic’s new service, this time-consuming work is automated, ensuring up-to-date, high-quality insights at their fingertips. It allows these industries to manage this task in-house and streamline efforts, providing data analysis more quickly for decision-making and longer term planning.
How It Works
Our Statistics & Percentiles service provides two key capabilities:
- Statistics – Retrieve daily or monthly maximum, minimum, and average values for nearly any weather variable in Synoptic’s system. This makes it easy to assess trends over custom time ranges without manual data processing.
- Percentiles – Instantly access percentile distributions for air temperature, wind speed, and wind gusts. Users can compare current conditions against historical norms to determine whether an event is typical or extreme.
6 Key Benefits for Users
- Quickly assess weather trends – This service automates the retrieval of statistical insights, eliminating the need for manual calculations.
- Evaluate extreme weather events – Identify outliers and trends in temperature and wind conditions with percentile rankings.
- Assess Risk – Support critical decision-making in fire weather monitoring, energy forecasting, infrastructure management, and crew safety.
- Save time with automated updates – Percentile distributions update monthly, while statistics update daily, ensuring access to the latest climatological insights.
- High-quality, reliable data – Every value is subjected to Synoptic’s rigorous quality control processes, providing trustworthy insights.
- Flexible API integration – Query data for single or multiple stations over custom time periods, enabling tailored insights.
Streamline Data Analysis
For teams that rely on weather data, efficiency matters. The Statistics & Percentiles service eliminates the need for:
- Manual calculations of weather trends – No more processing and quality-controlling large datasets.
- Custom scripting for station data – Get instant percentile rankings without writing and maintaining code.
- Updating and managing historical datasets – Our automated updates ensure you’re always working with the most recent insights.
Ready to Get Started?
The Statistics & Percentiles service is now available as part of our Weather API. If your organization relies on weather data for forecasting, risk assessment, or operational planning, this new service will save time and provide deeper insights with minimal effort.
To learn more about how you can integrate this new feature into your workflow, contact our team today!