Explore

Discover and inspect mesonet data assets. Choose a tool on the left to get started.

Current conditions

See the most recent reports of several weather variables from any public station we aggregate.

Mine our station database

Make queries using our powerful data selection tools and discover how our collection of over 100,000 publicly shared observation stations answer more questions than you'd think.

& Take a deep dive

Get into the weeds with individual stations. When you discover a station, through exploring the weather map, querying the database, or simply searching by name, get all the history and insight about any platform right here.

We are constantly improving this tool, so come back often, or use our Explore Tool as an inspiration for your own projects with this data.

About Synoptic's Explore Tool

Welcome! This site is designed to allow anyone to see public Mesonet data aggregated and distributed by our Mesonet API. You can build this exact same platform using our API.

What can I do

Start by choosing your mode (, , ). Each mode has a similar set of controls, and the map will stay in the same place between modes.

Current weather

Choose the variable to view and unit, and look around at the most recent conditions.

Metadata explorer

This is the default mode, and is desinged to allow you to discover available stations. Make selections in the control menu, and click "Find & display". A "Show visible" button is also available to view every active platform in your visible map area. Choose an option other than "Map" to view the result of your selections different ways.

Station Mode

Get to know a single station, from current and recent data, to metadata and history information.

Developer tools

To help you start building applications using our API products, the bottom of the page has an orange "how can I get this data" button - click it to see an explanation of the Mesonet API query that gave this data.

Additionally you can enter a full mesonet API query (without a token even) replacing https://api.synopticdata.com/v2/ with https://explore.synopticdata.com/ and see the query made and explained for you.