Obtaining Precipitation Data from the UCC

Visit the Utah Climate Center (UCC) Weather Data Server at http://climate.usu.edu/weather/dataserv.htm.  If this link does not work, follow the bulletted steps below:

• Go to the Utah State University (USU) Climate Center homepage at www.usu.edu.
• Click on the Research link near the bottom.
• Scroll down and click on the Utah Climate Center link.
• Under the Weather Data heading, click the Data Server link.

1. At this point you will see two maps: a world map above and a map of the United States below it (see figures below).
2. The map of the world will allow you to interactively click on any point and zoom in.  When you are zoomed into the region of interest, click the List Stations button to list the weather stations in that zoom box area only.
3. The map of the U.S. will automatically list all stations in a particular state as soon as you click on the state.

1. For example, on the US map, click on the state of Utah.
2. Select a station from the alphabetical list.  For example, select the OREM TREATMENT PLANT station.
3. Enter in the dates to view data for.  In this case, view the entire year of 1998 by selecting the Beginning Year and the Ending Year as 1998.
4. Click the Start button.
5. You will see the following message: "Your data request is ready... 00040282.DAT"
6. Do a single right-click with the mouse and proceed to download the data file by choosing "Save Link As..." or "Save Target As...".
7. The downloaded .dat file may be imported into a spreadsheet program like Microsoft Excel.  You may want to try a Delimited setting with Tab and Comma delimeters  (see Microsoft Excel help for more information).  With a little formatting you can have a nice looking spreadsheet.  In this case, we have precipitation, snowfall, and temperature data for this station for the entire year of 1998 (the figure below shows a portion of this data).