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Land surface weather observations for 31 parameters from over 250 locations across the Met Office UK land observation network. The data is available as CSV files. You can use it to monitor the latest weather affecting a specific location so you can plan for your business or operations.
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The observations are produced every minute and transmitted to the Amazon Registry of Open Data every hour. They're available for a rolling 7-day period (168 hours).
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All locations in the observation network are within the bounding box:
- -15 (West)
- 48 (South)
- 5 (East)
- 62 (North)
On average they are about 40km apart, distributed uniformly to detect as many weather features as possible.
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31 meteorological parameters are measured across the observation network. But not all locations record all parameters. Check the documentation for the full list of parameters.
Overview
Land surface weather observations for 31 parameters from over 250 locations across the Met Office UK land observation network. The data is available as CSV files. You can use it to monitor the latest weather affecting a specific location so you can plan for your business or operations.
The observations are produced every minute and transmitted to the Amazon Registry of Open Data every hour. They’re available for a rolling 7-day period (168 hours).
All locations in the observation network are within the bounding box:
- -15 (West)
- 48 (South)
- 5 (East)
- 62 (North)
On average they are about 40km apart, distributed uniformly to detect as many weather features as possible.
31 meteorological parameters are measured across the observation network. But not all locations record all parameters. Check the documentation for the full list of parameters.
Features and programs
Open Data Sponsorship Program
This dataset is part of the Open Data Sponsorship Program, an AWS program that covers the cost of storage for publicly available high-value cloud-optimized datasets.
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- How to use
- To access these resources, reference the Amazon Resource Name (ARN) using the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI). Learn more
- Description
- Met Office UK Land Surface Observations
- Resource type
- S3 bucket
- Amazon Resource Name (ARN)
- arn:aws:s3:::met-office-land-observations-data
- AWS region
- eu-west-2
- AWS CLI access (No AWS account required)
- aws s3 ls --no-sign-request s3://met-office-land-observations-data/
- Description
- Notifications for new UK land surface observations data
- Resource type
- SNS topic
- Amazon Resource Name (ARN)
- arn:aws:sns:eu-west-2:633885181284:met-office-land-observations-data-object_created
- AWS region
- eu-west-2
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Met Office UK Land Surface Observations was accessed on DATE from https://registry.opendata.aws/met-office-uk-land-observations .
License
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