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
0450Z6:50 AMCLR-0SCT16000 - 350000CLR KOMN 261050Z 00000KT 5SM BR CLR 24/24 A3012 RMK FIRST
0550Z6:50 AMCLR-0SCTSCT13000 - 360001CLR KOMN 261050Z 00000KT 5SM BR CLR 24/24 A3012 RMK FIRST
0650Z6:50 AMCLR-0CLR-0CLR KOMN 261050Z 00000KT 5SM BR CLR 24/24 A3012 RMK FIRST
0750Z6:50 AMCLR-0CLR-0CLR KOMN 261050Z 00000KT 5SM BR CLR 24/24 A3012 RMK FIRST
0850Z6:50 AMCLR-0CLR-0CLR KOMN 261050Z 00000KT 5SM BR CLR 24/24 A3012 RMK FIRST
0950Z6:50 AMCLR-0CLR-0CLR KOMN 261050Z 00000KT 5SM BR CLR 24/24 A3012 RMK FIRST
1050Z6:50 AMCLR-0CLR-0CLR KOMN 261050Z 00000KT 5SM BR CLR 24/24 A3012 RMK FIRST
1150Z7:50 AMCLR-0CLR-0CLR KOMN 261150Z 18004KT 5SM BR CLR 26/26 A3013
1250Z8:50 AMCLR-0CLR-0CLR KOMN 261250Z 18004KT 5SM BR CLR 28/27 A3015
1350Z9:50 AMCLR-0CLR-0CLR KOMN 261350Z 24004KT 5SM BR CLR 30/27 A3015
1450Z10:50 AMCLR-0CLR-0CLR KOMN 261450Z 00000KT 7SM CLR 31/26 A3014
1550Z11:50 AMCLR-0CLR-0CLR KOMN 261550Z 31004KT 7SM CLR 33/25 A3015