Weather/Instruments/Citizen
Citizen weather instruments across the United States
Citizen, drawn alone on the map below. 79,203 instruments in all, in 22 kinds of place across 50 states and the District of Columbia. Each one has its own page.PlacesInstruments
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Now, today, and the week
Instruments and stations
Every instrument that reports weather in the country, counted by the state it stands in. A state has its own list, where each one names what it stands at, its county, its coordinate and its height. Darker is denser: Texas holds the most at 6,460, District of Columbia the fewest at 29.
What this map opens
- Every instrument, drawn where it stands. All 79,203 of them over the country, each in the colour of the network it reports on.
- A state opens to fill the frame. The country falls away, and every instrument in it names itself: what it stands at, its county, its coordinate, its height.
- And the whole state as a table under it. Sorted by rank, by height, by name or by what reads it, searchable, with its own charts and its own rankings.
Open it with Pro or the API planEvery instrument has its own page either way. Start from a state below.
What is measuring
Every network and every kind of site, with the drawing that stands for it and how many carry it.
By network
All stationsevery network79,203Volunteeronce a day56,150Cooperativeonce a day5,837Citizenevery few minutes5,750Gaugecontinuous5,433Roadcontinuous3,024Airporthourly or better2,650Soilhourly205Referencehourly154
By the kind of place it stands at
All instrumentsevery kind of place79,203In a volunteer observer's own ground61,877At a cooperative observer's station5,266Beside a road3,024At an airfield2,711At a river or reservoir gauge2,281A remote fire weather station2,086A snow pillow on a mountain854At a dam283At a soil climate station205At a climate reference station154On a farm or research station134At a water treatment plant83In a park or preserve79At a reservoir63At a fire lookout or ranger station28On a college campus24At a harbour20At a power station14At a school6On a military installation4On an offshore platform4At a lighthouse3
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
Every state, by how much stands in it
Ordered by count. Each state opens its own list.
Texas6,460 instrumentsMinnesota4,952 instrumentsColorado4,811 instrumentsNorth Carolina3,511 instrumentsCalifornia3,271 instrumentsKansas2,462 instrumentsFlorida2,428 instrumentsWisconsin2,294 instrumentsSouth Carolina2,141 instrumentsIllinois2,115 instrumentsOhio2,104 instrumentsNew York2,081 instrumentsIndiana2,044 instrumentsOregon1,843 instrumentsWashington1,825 instrumentsPennsylvania1,811 instrumentsNew Mexico1,804 instrumentsMichigan1,791 instrumentsTennessee1,776 instrumentsVirginia1,613 instrumentsMissouri1,600 instrumentsArizona1,541 instrumentsGeorgia1,426 instrumentsSouth Dakota1,346 instrumentsIowa1,339 instrumentsWyoming1,260 instrumentsMassachusetts1,139 instrumentsNew Jersey1,129 instrumentsKentucky1,064 instrumentsUtah1,042 instrumentsAlabama1,018 instrumentsMontana1,007 instrumentsOklahoma979 instrumentsAlaska975 instrumentsArkansas824 instrumentsNebraska769 instrumentsIdaho768 instrumentsMaryland766 instrumentsMaine674 instrumentsNevada672 instrumentsLouisiana618 instrumentsNew Hampshire607 instrumentsMississippi592 instrumentsConnecticut565 instrumentsNorth Dakota535 instrumentsVermont530 instrumentsWest Virginia462 instrumentsRhode Island319 instrumentsHawaii275 instrumentsDelaware196 instrumentsDistrict of Columbia29 instruments