Mr. Windcredible! Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 Maybe people already know this exists...but I feel like it comes up once in awhile and I just stumbled upon it today trying to find Upton's snowfall totals from yesterday. The Iowa Mesonet site has a nice archive of all NWS text products back at least until January 2009: http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/wx/afos/ You have to use the 'Enter Product ID Manually' section to be able to search dates...so you need to know your product codes and NWS office code (http://forecast.weather.gov/product_types.php?site=nws, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_National_Weather_Service_Weather_forecast_offices)...or just get the code by using the 'Select by WFO & Product' to get the latest products then go back and use the same code to manually search dates to get the older products. I had to play around with it a bit...but kind of fun to pull up some of the old data. For instance...here's a snippet of Upton's discussion just as last year's Blizzard was getting underway: AREA FORECAST DISCUSSIONNATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY359 PM EST FRI FEB 8 2013.SYNOPSIS...A MAJOR AND POTENTIALLY HISTORIC WINTER STORM WILL IMPACT THEAREA TONIGHT INTO SATURDAY. RAPIDLY DEEPENING LOW PRESSUREOFF THE DELMARVA COAST WILL TRACK NORTHEAST AND PASS TO THE SOUTHAND EAST OF LONG ISLAND TONIGHT INTO SATURDAY. HIGH PRESSUREBUILDS IN SATURDAY NIGHT INTO SUNDAY AND MOVES OFFSHORE BY SUNDAYNIGHT. A FRONTAL SYSTEM WILL MOVE IN LATE SUNDAY NIGHT INTOMONDAY...MOVING OFF SHORE MONDAY NIGHT. HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS INFOR TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT. WEAK DISTURBANCES MOVES THROUGHWEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY. HIGH PRESSURE BUILD IN AGAIN FOR FRIDAY.&&.NEAR TERM /UNTIL 6 AM SATURDAY MORNING/...FORECAST ON TRACK WITH PRECIPITATION TRANSITIONING TO ALL SNOWACROSS LI AND METRO NY. DUAL POL RADAR PRODUCTS SHOW CHANGEOVERACROSS THE SOUTH SHORE OF LI WHICH SHOULD BECOME ALL SNOW BETWEEN4PM AND 5PM. HEAVY SNOW BANDS WILL BE MOVING SOUTH TO NORTH OFF THEATLANTIC AND ACROSS THE TRI-STATE AREA DURING THE NEXT SEVERALHOURS. EXTREMELY HAZARDOUS TRAVEL CAN BE EXPECTED FOR THE EVENINGCOMMUTE WITH HEAVY SNOW AND STRONG WINDS. SNOWFALL RATES IN SOMEBANDS WILL ACHIEVE 2 TO 3 INCHES AN HOUR.ALL GUIDANCE SEEMS TO BE WELL CLUSTERED WITH RESPECT TO SURFACE LOWTRACK. RAPIDLY DEEPENING LOW MOVES ACROSS OR NEAR THE BENCHMARKTONIGHT...PLACING EASTERN SECTIONS OF THE CWA IN THE BULLS EYE FORPOTENTIAL HIGHER QPF. BANDED PRECIPITATION IS LIKELY DUE TOFRONTOGENESIS. EXPECT SNOW HEAVY AT TIMES...ALONG WITH BLOWING SNOWDUE TO THE POWERFUL WINDS WHICH WILL PRODUCE BLIZZARD CONDITIONS FORMUCH OF THE AREA. WILL MAKE ONLY MINOR ADJUSTMENTS TO SNOWFALLACROSS LONG ISLAND WHERE THE CHANGE OVER TO SNOWFALL HAS OCCURREDSLIGHTLY EARLIER THAN FORECAST. GENERALLY LOOKING AT 10 TO 15 INCHESNEAR NYC METRO...12-16 LOWER HUDSON VALLEY...12 TO 20 ACROSS LONGISLAND AND 18 TO 24 INCHES ACROSS SERN CT. CANNOT RULE OUT ISOLATEDAREAS IN ANY BANDING OF 2 TO 4 INCH PER HOUR RATES OBSERVING EVENHIGHER TOTALS. && Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ORH_wxman Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 I didn't know that one existed. Here is one that goes back to 2001, but you need to have the product emailed to you...it usually does get emailed within a few minutes though after it processes it. It's a little more crude on the menu though so you need to get used to it. http://hurricane.ncdc.noaa.gov/pls/plhas/HAS.FileAppSelect?datasetname=9957ANX Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 That IA state site also has good radar too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OceanStWx Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 That IA state site also has good radar too. Those archives can be good and bad. Just had an old AFD come up during an NROW presentation where the GFS was tossed on 12/24/10 when it started to come back northwest. Oops. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Windcredible! Posted December 11, 2013 Author Share Posted December 11, 2013 That IA state site also has good radar too. I hadn't see the radar...thanks for pointing it out. Really now sure how I didn't know this site existed...lots of great archived stuff! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OceanStWx Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 I hadn't see the radar...thanks for pointing it out. Really now sure how I didn't know this site existed...lots of great archived stuff! They also have the VTEC browser so you can just search headlines. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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