Improve Weather Preparedness and Situational Awareness with Weather Data to Support the Nation
The National Mesonet Program
The National Mesonet is a multi-functional, multi-faceted observational weather “network of networks” that delivers critical information required for improved weather prediction and warnings across the United States. Synoptic Data PBC is proud to be the industry leader in aggregating, processing, and disseminating real-time and historical measured weather and environmental observations for the National Mesonet Program.
The Synoptic Weather API
Empower your citizens with weather info from our robust and scalable Weather API, perfect for state and local governments that play a crucial role in managing and responding to weather-related events to ensure the safety and well-being of their communities. Gain access to our extensive collection of real-time and historical data, enabling you to protect your communities from weather-related threats, prepare for emergencies, and provide support and resources when disasters occur.
Key Features:
- Request-based RESTful API
- Flexible outputs: JSON, geoJSON, CSV, and XML formats for various services
- Special services and parameters for quick access to critical data requests
- Integrated quality control to identify and eliminate erroneous values
- Control panel for monitoring usage and managing access tokens
- CORS and JSONP support for seamless integration into web applications
- Proprietary data access and unlimited concurrent requests available for enterprise customers
Comprehensive Data
Our API offers access to over 160 weather and atmospheric parameters, empowering you to make well-informed decisions and gain a deeper understanding of imminent weather risks. Explore the full list of parameters available here.
ESRI ArcGIS
Synoptic is proud to partner with Esri to offer access to the ArcGIS Marketplace, a curated digital geospatial channel of system ready apps, content, solutions, and professional services from Esri.
The Latest Weather Observations product suite has high spatial density, low latency weather observations across the United States to help improve situational awareness, risk management, and operational efficiency for customers in transportation, utilities, agriculture, and national, state, and local governments. Many common weather variables are a part of these products including visibility, road temperature, solar radiation, and 24-hour max/min values.
What makes Synoptic different?
Use Cases
Integration
Response Planning
Have your own apps and customer dashboards? Maximize the potential of Synoptic’s data streams and APIs by seamlessly integrating real-time and historical data directly into your systems and tools for public safety.
Looking to improve your emergency response and contingency planning? Monitor real-time weather conditions and stay informed about potential weather impacts’ locations and timing. Optimize evacuation planning, including identifying ideal sites for emergency shelters, and public safety deployments.
Need better visibility into staffing and resource planning during weather events? Obtain detailed insights into the direction of severe weather and allocate crews, contractors, and other resources to affected areas accordingly.
Integration
Have your own apps and customer dashboards? Maximize the potential of Synoptic’s data streams and APIs by seamlessly integrating real-time and historical data directly into your systems and tools for public safety.
Response Planning
Looking to improve your emergency response and contingency planning? Monitor real-time weather conditions and stay informed about potential weather impacts’ locations and timing. Optimize evacuation planning, including identifying ideal sites for emergency shelters, and public safety deployments.
Need better visibility into staffing and resource planning during weather events? Obtain detailed insights into the direction of severe weather and allocate crews, contractors, and other resources to affected areas accordingly.