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.
| SCP Valid UTC | METAR Valid Local | Satellite East Sounder | Satellite West Sounder | ASOS METAR Report | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mid Clouds | High Clouds | Levels [ft] | ECA [%] | Mid Clouds | High Clouds | Levels [ft] | ECA [%] | Levels ft | METAR | ||
| 0450Z | 12:50 AM | SCT | 13000 - 36000 | 2 | SCT | 13000 - 32000 | 1 | CLR | KJES 270450Z AUTO 00000KT 7SM CLR 21/21 A3016 RMK AO2 | ||
| 0550Z | 1:50 AM | SCT | SCT | 15000 - 35000 | 0 | SCT | 13000 - 25000 | 2 | CLR | KJES 270550Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM CLR 21/21 A3015 RMK AO2 | |
| 0650Z | 2:50 AM | SCT | 33000 - 48000 | 0 | SCT | 15000 - 24000 | 0 | CLR | KJES 270650Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM CLR 21/21 A3014 RMK AO2 | ||
| 0750Z | 3:50 AM | CLR | - | 0 | CLR | - | 0 | CLR | KJES 270750Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM CLR 20/20 A3014 RMK AO2 | ||
| 0850Z | 4:50 AM | CLR | - | 0 | CLR | - | 0 | CLR | KJES 270850Z AUTO 00000KT 7SM CLR 20/20 A3014 RMK AO2 | ||
| 0950Z | 5:50 AM | CLR | - | 0 | CLR | - | 0 | CLR | KJES 270950Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM CLR 21/21 A3015 RMK AO2 | ||
| 1050Z | 6:50 AM | CLR | - | 0 | SCT | 18000 - 27000 | 0 | CLR | KJES 271050Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM CLR 20/20 A3015 RMK AO2 | ||
| 1150Z | 7:50 AM | CLR | - | 0 | CLR | - | 0 | CLR | KJES 271150Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM CLR 22/22 A3016 RMK AO2 | ||
| 1250Z | 8:50 AM | CLR | - | 0 | CLR | - | 0 | CLR | KJES 271250Z AUTO 26003KT 10SM CLR 26/23 A3017 RMK AO2 | ||
| 1350Z | 9:30 AM | CLR | - | 0 | CLR | - | 0 | CLR | KJES 271330Z AUTO 25003KT 10SM CLR 28/25 A3018 RMK AO2 | ||