Satellite Cloud Product

NESDIS produces a Satellite Cloud Product (SCP) that supplements the ASOS ceilometer readings. This page merges the SCP data with the METAR observations for a given UTC date. Cloud level values are presented in feet above ground level. ECA represents estimated cloud amount expressed in percentage. An IEM Web Service provided the following JSON dataset for this page. Data is available for some sites back to 1993.

Year: Month: Day: Time Order:

 

SCP Valid UTC METAR Valid Local Satellite East SounderSatellite West SounderASOS METAR Report
Mid CloudsHigh CloudsLevels [ft]ECA [%]Mid CloudsHigh CloudsLevels [ft]ECA [%]Levels ftMETAR
2350Z12:50 AMCLR-0SCT15000 - 160000CLR KTDF 230450Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM CLR 22/21 A3020 RMK AO2
0050Z1:50 AMCLR-0CLR-0CLR KTDF 230550Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM CLR 22/21 A3019 RMK AO2
0150Z2:50 AMCLR-0CLR-0CLR KTDF 230650Z AUTO 23005KT 10SM CLR 22/21 A3018 RMK AO2
0250Z3:50 AMCLR-0CLR-0CLR KTDF 230750Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM CLR 22/20 A3019 RMK AO2
0350Z4:50 AMCLR-0CLR-0CLR KTDF 230850Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM CLR 21/20 A3019 RMK AO2
0450Z5:50 AMCLR-0CLR-0VV @500
KTDF 230950Z AUTO 00000KT 1/2SM FG VV005 20/20 A3020 RMK AO2
0550Z6:50 AMCLR-0CLR-0CLR KTDF 231050Z AUTO 00000KT 7SM CLR 20/20 A3022 RMK AO2
0650Z7:50 AMCLR-0CLR-0CLR KTDF 231150Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM CLR 23/21 A3023 RMK AO2
0750Z8:50 AMCLR-0CLR-0CLR KTDF 231250Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM CLR 27/22 A3024 RMK AO2
0850Z9:50 AMCLR-0CLR-0CLR KTDF 231350Z AUTO 29005KT 10SM CLR 28/22 A3023 RMK AO2
0950Z10:50 AMCLR-0CLR-0CLR KTDF 231450Z AUTO 30004KT 10SM CLR 30/23 A3023 RMK AO2
1050Z11:50 AMCLR-0CLR-0CLR KTDF 231550Z AUTO 31005KT 10SM CLR 31/22 A3023 RMK AO2
1150Z12:50 PMCLR-0CLR-0CLR KTDF 231650Z AUTO 35005KT 10SM CLR 32/22 A3023 RMK AO2
1250Z1:50 PMCLR-0CLR-0SCT@3900
KTDF 231750Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM SCT039 32/22 A3021 RMK AO2
1350Z2:50 PMCLR-0CLR-0SCT@4400
SCT@5500
KTDF 231850Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM SCT044 SCT055 33/23 A3020 RMK AO2
1450Z3:50 PMCLR-0CLR-0SCT@4700
KTDF 231950Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM SCT047 33/22 A3019 RMK AO2
1550Z4:50 PMCLR-0SCT14000 - 290000CLR KTDF 232050Z AUTO 02003KT 10SM CLR 34/22 A3019 RMK AO2
1650Z5:50 PMCLR-0SCT13000 - 160001CLR KTDF 232150Z AUTO 02003KT 10SM CLR 35/20 A3018 RMK AO2