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Analyzing the Texas Flooding: What the Data Revealed |
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Our thoughts are with the communities across Texas impacted by the devastating July 4th flooding. As the storm unfolded, real-time environmental data captured its scale and speed. The data offers insights into rainfall intensity, river levels, and the rapid onset of dangerous conditions.
In our latest blog post, Analyzing the Storm: What the Data Revealed About the Texas Flooding, we explore how the data tracked the storm in real time and how it can support emergency planning, response, and recovery in future extreme weather events. |
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How Synoptic Supports Wildfire Awareness with Watch Duty |
When wildfires threaten, seconds matter. That’s why Watch Duty, a nonprofit wildfire intelligence app, is helping communities stay informed and safe with timely updates about conditions. The app now includes real-time weather and environmental data from Synoptic’s Weather API.
Watch Duty brings critical, verified data to the people who need it most when wildfires threaten, including residents, firefighters, and emergency responders. Read how Synoptic’s mission-aligned partnership is helping Watch Duty expand its life-saving impact. |
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Product Spotlight: First of its Kind Wind Gust Factor QC
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Being customer centric is one of our core values at Synoptic. We actively listen, develop new solutions, and continuously improve upon our products and services. We’ve recently added a brand new, first of its kind, Quality Control check to our platform: Wind Gust Factor QC. This is a new, innovative quality control check that Synoptic has created using a simple ratio with a unique algorithm applied to find outliers.
This effort was in direct response to working with our utility customers and developing a solution that would automatically flag wind data and avoid skewing the statistical analysis they were using for models and daily operations.
We’ll be sharing more about this new QC check, and our readers always get exclusive news first! This new quality control flag will be accessible soon in real-time for both our Weather API and Data Viewer, and will also be applied to historical QC records.
We are proud of the efforts of our team to develop this new, first of its kind solution that benefits our customers.
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Time series of wind speed and wind gust observations from station VTMLB (VTRANS network) during July 2025, showing outlier wind gusts identified by the Wind Gust Factor QC check. |
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Synoptic has added Visibility as a parameter to explore in our Data Viewer. Visibility data helps identify hazardous conditions like fog, smoke, heavy precipitation, or blowing snow. It’s crucial for transportation safety, including aviation and even your commute to work.
While this variable has been available in our Weather API, we’ve added it to the Data Viewer |
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to give users more information for monitoring local conditions and making decisions about safety and when to halt or restart activities when conditions change. Check it out by clicking Explore and navigating to Visibility in the menu. Over 18,500 networks have visibility data!
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Fortis Alberta
Wildfires are a familiar threat in Alberta due to its terrain, high winds, and dry climate. The Fortis Alberta network has been integrated into the Synoptic platform, offering data from 20+ stations throughout the province. These stations support utility operations as well as environmental monitoring across Alberta’s diverse terrain.
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Idaho Power
Real-time data is essential to staying ahead of wildfires. Synoptic has partnered with Idaho Power and Western Weather Group to bring this publicly available data to the platform. This network helps fire weather experts track temperature, humidity, wind, and precipitation across more than 70 stations in the region.
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Northwestern Energy
Another fire weather utility that has joined the Synoptic platform is the NorthWestern Energy network. This network adds 7 stations in Montana, operated by Western Weather Group. The data supports fire weather monitoring, risk analysis, and utility planning.
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Natural Resources Wales
Natural Resources Wales (NRW) brings valuable hydrologic data to the Synoptic network. With nearly 400 telemetry stations reporting every 15 minutes, NRW enhances real-time coverage across Wales with in-situ precipitation and water level data. This network strengthens our platform for users across water management, emergency response, and environmental research.
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Norwegian Meteorological Institute
Norwegian Meteorological Institute (MET Norway) operates one of the world’s largest national weather networks with nearly 1,800 stations updating every 10 minutes (some every minute). Now available on Synoptic’s platform, this rich polar and marine dataset offers expanded Arctic coverage, up to 37 environmental variables per station, and critical insights for forecasting, maritime safety, and northern industries.
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Use GSA for Your End of Fiscal Year Funds
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End of Fiscal Year budgets are closing soon for FY 2025. If you’re considering adding environmental data to your operations or are looking for data monitoring tools, now is the time! Synoptic is an approved vendor on the GSA Multiple Award Schedule. This makes it easy for government agencies to purchase our trusted environmental data services! |
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Browse the links below to access helpful tips and documentation for Synoptic's products. |
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