NOAA NCEI Local Climatological Data Version 2 (LCDv2)
A separately named Version 2 station summary product publishing hourly, daily, and monthly observations in station-year CSV files and monthly summary forms. It is derived from NCEI station datasets but has its own docum…
Questions this answers
5 · best fit firstStation-year files provide hourly temperature and daily minimum temperature with station, coordinates, and ISO date-time, directly supporting pinned freeze frequency, duration, and seasonality.
Station-year files publish daily snowfall, snow depth, and weather occurrence with station, coordinates, date, units, and trace handling, supporting pinned snowfall and depth climatology.
U.S.-focused station-year files provide hourly wind and gust plus daily average and peak wind with station, coordinates, date, and units, supporting pinned station-based extremes and climatology.
LCDv2 hourly present-weather and DailyWeather fields explicitly include freezing rain, ice pellets, and glaze with station and date-time context, supporting occurrence climatology but not derived accretion amount.
LCDv2 standing station-year files identify station and coordinates, pin observations by ISO date-time, and publish hourly/daily temperature, precipitation, snow, present weather, wind, gust, and peak-wind observations in documented SI units. Coverage is U.S.-focused and fields vary by station.
Fields it delivers
13 fieldsNCEI product material describes U.S.-focused station coverage but the checked page did not establish whether separately coded territories are included, so no ISO footprint was guessed.
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