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Saturday Nov 07
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Rocky Mountain Research Station - Flagstaff Lab
Southwest Forest Science Complex
2500 South Pine Knoll Drive
Flagstaff, AZ 86001
(928) 556-2001

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Fort Valley Cooperative Weather Station - Celebrating 100 years!

History:
Fort Valley weather observations have been reported to the Weather Service since 1909. This was one year after the establishment of Fort Valley as the first Forest Service Research site. Early research focused on ponderosa pine regeneration. More information about Fort Valley.

PLEASE BE ADVISED:
The provisional summary information accessible below is not to be cited or used for any scientific or research purpose. Once these data have undergone quality assurance procedures they are added to the Rocky Mountain Research Station Archive and may be retrieved from there, complete with metadata and citation information. Thank you for your attention to this. This station reports all data in MST (mountain standard time). Daylight savings time is not observed in Arizona with the exception of the Navajo Nation.

Recent half-hour provisional data, raw form
Today is Saturday November 07, 2009 - day 311 of the year. Precip is in recorded in hundredths of inches (e.g. 2 = 0.02 inches)

cfgYearDayofyrTimeBattVoltIntTempCTempObsFTempMaxFTimeMaxTempMinFTimeMinPrecip.01in
10520093113014-2.10525.1425.79325.12290
105200931110014.01-2.63224.8725.153024.76580
105200931113014.02-3.07524.5824.9312424.541280
105200931120014.03-3.42425.3625.4115924.531310
105200931123014.03-3.63225.1425.920425.042270
105200931130014.03-3.71224.7525.3423724.752410
105200931133014.04-3.825.3625.4232824.613030
105200931140014.03-3.82926.8626.8835925.323300
105200931143014.02-3.64526.9127.1642026.764010
105200931150014.02-3.40226.2426.9343026.224590
105200931153014.03-3.36525.9326.350125.815130
105200931160014.03-3.43925.5325.9553025.445460
105200931163014.04-3.54725.3925.7660725.16260
105200931170014.04-3.68225.1925.5463224.936360
105200931173014.05-3.82725.926.0272725.097030
105200931180014.03-3.77529.8229.8280025.857300
105200931183014-3.16837.4937.4982929.778000
105200931190013.94-1.91951.4651.4690037.548300
105200931193013.85.27357.7157.7292951.439000
1052009311100013.763.34757.5857.895857.079350
1052009311103013.696.42758.7259.05102457.4610000
1052009311110013.599.0560.7761.13105658.6610300
1052009311113013.4812.1661.8962.11112860.2511110
1052009311120013.4214.962.663.57114161.6811300
1052009311123013.416.7664.0764.61122862.4312000
1052009311130013.417.6763.5364.0912306212460
cfgYearDayofyrTimeBattVoltIntTempCTempObsFTempMaxFTimeMaxTempMinFTimeMinPrecip.01in
You can also view raw provisional data for yesterday and today, or for the past week

Daily provisional summaries

Summarize data (daily high, low, precip) for current year

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NRCS Fort Valley SNOTEL Site

Data Availability:
Access to 30 minute summaries for the period March 23, 2003 at 0700 through October 2009 are available at the Rocky Mountain Research Station Data Archive Included in the metadata there is information on how to access daily summaries for Fort Valley from August 1909 through September 2009 from the National Climatic Data Center. The data sets available there for Fort Valley are created by the Weather Service from data we submit each month through the NOAA Cooperative Observer Program, station ID 023160. Historical Climate Inventories for COOP ID# 023160. This is the only way to access the historical data from 1909 to 2003.

What is typical or extreme temperature/precipitation for Fort Valley Experimental Forest this time of year?
Visit the Western Regional Climate Center to explore.

Extremes as of 09/07/2009

Warmest98°FJuly 5, 1985
Coldest-37°FJanuary 12, 1963
Wettest Day4.0"August 24, 2006

Weather Station Webcam
The webcam shows the Fort Valley weather station in the center of the frame. More info on the webcam.

Fort Valley AZ - live webcam

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