Remote Automatic Weather Station (RAWS) climatology

Remote Automatic Weather Stations measure a number of atmospheric elements including temperature, relative humidity, wind speed and direction, and precipitation. The information for these elements are recorded hourly and collected at the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise. The Western Regional Climate Center receives these data near real-time and continuously updates a historical archive. RAWS sites are primarily owned and maintained by both federal and state land management agencies. Approximately 800 sites are now operational mostly in the western U.S. CEFA has generated some basic climatology products from sites in Nevada, Idaho, Utah and northern California.

 
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Regions Currently Available:

RAWS climatological analysis has been completed for three regions: Nevada, Idaho, Utah and northwestern California. The number of RAWS sites examined in each region were (click on state name to see map): California (Northwestern): 16 Idaho: 110 Nevada: 131 Utah: 130

Available product layouts:

4-Panel plots of hourly temperature, humidity, wind speed and wind direction.	1-panel plot of hourly and monthly temperature, humidity, wind speed or wind direction.
2-Panel plots of hourly average wind speed and wind direction.

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