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CPC GIS Data

6-10 day, 8-14 day, week 3-4, monthly and seasonal outlooks, hazards and drought products from the NOAA Climate Prediction Center.

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About

The Climate Prediction Center is the National Weather Service centre for forecasts beyond a week. Its GIS Data page collects temperature and precipitation outlooks for the 6-10 day, 8-14 day, week 3-4, monthly and seasonal ranges, the U.S. Week-2 Hazards Outlook, monthly and seasonal drought outlooks, drought monitoring support grids, daily gridded precipitation and temperature analyses, and global sea surface temperature, served as shapefiles, KMZ and raster files from ftp.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/GIS/.

Through Fibric, an operator reads the latest outlook files, compares your regions against the probability areas, and proposes a build, a budget or a notice for a person to confirm.

This is a reference listing. It documents what Fibric would read from CPC GIS Data and what it could propose, based on the publisher's published interfaces. Fibric builds it under a managed deployment when you request it; selecting it here installs nothing.

Inputs

  • 6-10 Day and 8-14 Day temperature and precipitation outlooks as zipped shapefiles and KMZ under GIS/us_tempprcpfcst/, named like 610temp_YYYYMMDD.zip
  • Week 3-4 temperature and precipitation outlooks under GIS/Week34_TempPrcp_Fcst/
  • Monthly and seasonal temperature and precipitation outlooks, with leads out to thirteen months
  • U.S. Week-2 Hazards Outlook areas for excessive heat, heavy precipitation, snow, high winds and rapid onset drought as KML and shapefiles under GIS/us_hazards/
  • Monthly and Seasonal Drought Outlooks under GIS/droughtlook/, plus U.S. Drought Monitor support grids for soil moisture, evaporation, precipitation, runoff and temperature
  • CPC Unified Global Gauge Daily Precipitation Analysis, U.S. daily Tmax and Tmin analyses, and global sea surface temperature as raster files
  • Hazards assessments for Africa, Afghanistan, Central America, Hispaniola and the global tropics

Proposed actions

Read-only. This feed informs operators; it changes nothing.

Proposed actions are target capabilities. Every action runs propose-first and needs a validated deployment and the appropriate permissions.

What you can build

  • Size a seasonal build against the outlook

    Read the seasonal temperature outlook for your markets and propose adjusting the season build where the probability of a warm or cold season is high.

    With Season Build

  • Put Week-2 heat or snow into the staffing plan

    When the U.S. Week-2 Hazards Outlook marks excessive heat or snow over a site, propose a labor budget change for that week.

    With Labor Budget

  • Carry the drought outlook into the demand forecast

    Attach the Seasonal Drought Outlook area to the demand outlook for regions where drought is forecast to persist or develop.

    With Demand Outlook

  • Notify sites in a hazard area

    Draft a notice for sites under a Week-2 high wind or heavy precipitation hazard, for a manager to send.

    With Severe Weather Notice

Requirements

  • Your regions or site coordinates to intersect with the outlook and hazard polygons
  • A schedule that matches each product: daily for the 6-10 day outlook and hazards, monthly for seasonal and drought outlooks
  • A GIS reader for shapefile and raster (GeoTIFF) inputs
Authentication
None. The GIS files are open downloads from cpc.ncep.noaa.gov and ftp.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov with no key or account.

Limits

  • The GIS index does not document attribute fields or issuance times; those sit on each product's own page
  • Outlooks give probabilities of above, near or below normal, not forecast values
  • A latest file sits beside dated archives with no change notification, so you poll on the product schedule
  • NWS provides the information as is and disclaims warranties

Access and pricing

Reference listing. Public feed access is separate from Fibric integration. If you request this feed, your quote covers the build, usage, and support.

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Questions and answers

When are the outlooks issued?
The 6-10 Day outlooks are issued daily between 3 pm and 4 pm Eastern. The U.S. Week-2 Hazards Outlook is issued at 3 pm Eastern. The 90-day outlooks are issued once each month near mid-month at 8:30 am Eastern; check the CPC release schedule for exact dates.
What formats are the files in?
Outlooks and hazards come as zipped shapefiles and KMZ or KML. Gridded analyses such as daily precipitation, temperature and sea surface temperature are raster files, referenced as GeoTIFF in the directories.
Which areas do the products cover?
Temperature and precipitation outlooks cover the contiguous United States, with a separate Hawaii outlook. The Week-2 Hazards Outlook covers the contiguous U.S., Alaska and Hawaii. The Seasonal Drought Outlook adds Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Some grids are global or regional.
Ask about CPC GIS Data

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This Commons signal listing is developed, published, and supported by Fibric. It reads public data published by NOAA Climate Prediction Center (cpc.ncep.noaa.gov). Upstream agencies and projects are the property of their respective owners, who are not affiliated with Fibric and do not sponsor or endorse this listing. Trademark policy