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Soil Temps from Metar? Is it possible?
« on: November 21, 2017, 08:44:47 AM »
Am I just missing it, or is it not possible? I don't have a soil sensor, but I DO want to provide that info on my website. Is there a way to pull Soil temp and moisture data from a nearby Metar or some other source in Weather Display?

Thanks!
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Re: Soil Temps from Metar? Is it possible?
« Reply #2 on: November 21, 2017, 10:19:57 AM »
By zooming in this map http://www.greencastonline.com/tools/soil-temperature gives a pretty good view, and as Bushman says the data is not in the METAR www.komokaweather.com/metar/metar_display.php.

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Re: Soil Temps from Metar? Is it possible?
« Reply #3 on: November 21, 2017, 10:40:41 AM »
Well that stinks. Oh well, I kind of figured that. Thanks!

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Re: Soil Temps from Metar? Is it possible?
« Reply #4 on: November 21, 2017, 10:51:36 AM »
Mesonet stations have 4" depth bare soil temperatures. Don't think any NOAA stations do.
Problem is Mesonet have their own network and not even included with Mesowest I've always found odd because they are professional high quality stations.
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Re: Soil Temps from Metar? Is it possible?
« Reply #5 on: November 21, 2017, 11:44:53 AM »
Ground conditions can be had from NOTAMS.  Things like inches of snow, water, etc.
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Re: Soil Temps from Metar? Is it possible?
« Reply #6 on: November 21, 2017, 02:54:08 PM »
Ground conditions can be had from NOTAMS.  Things like inches of snow, water, etc.
NOTAMS (Notice to Airmen), are for telling flight crews of anomalies or outages for the complete phase of flight, from chock to chock, i.e. closed runways and/or taxiways, NAVAID outages, construction near runways, ect.

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Re: Soil Temps from Metar? Is it possible?
« Reply #7 on: November 21, 2017, 05:20:33 PM »
Sure - and snow on the ground, water pooling etc.  Use them all the time.
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Re: Soil Temps from Metar? Is it possible?
« Reply #8 on: November 21, 2017, 05:38:15 PM »
Sure - and snow on the ground, water pooling etc.  Use them all the time.
Yeah, but that's a SNOWTAM.... ;)  Actually, never heard of it before... :?

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Re: Soil Temps from Metar? Is it possible?
« Reply #9 on: November 21, 2017, 06:11:01 PM »
Am I just missing it, or is it not possible? I don't have a soil sensor, but I DO want to provide that info on my website. Is there a way to pull Soil temp and moisture data from a nearby Metar or some other source in Weather Display?

Thanks!
Eric

Sorry, not exactly what you are  looking for but I see there is a nice mesonet in GA whose sites record soil temp/moisture.
http://www.georgiaweather.net
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Re: Soil Temps from Metar? Is it possible?
« Reply #10 on: November 21, 2017, 07:02:31 PM »
I provide soil temps for visitors on my website, a little crude however. I try to update couple times month at around 7AM.  https://www.valentinenebraska.net/soil.php
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Re: Soil Temps from Metar? Is it possible?
« Reply #11 on: December 08, 2017, 02:43:07 PM »
Am I just missing it, or is it not possible? I don't have a soil sensor, but I DO want to provide that info on my website. Is there a way to pull Soil temp and moisture data from a nearby Metar or some other source in Weather Display?

Thanks!
Eric

Sorry, not exactly what you are  looking for but I see there is a nice mesonet in GA whose sites record soil temp/moisture.
http://www.georgiaweather.net


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Re: Soil Temps from Metar? Is it possible?
« Reply #12 on: December 08, 2017, 02:43:40 PM »
I provide soil temps for visitors on my website, a little crude however. I try to update couple times month at around 7AM.  https://www.valentinenebraska.net/soil.php

Valentine Weather - is that a manual update? or do you have a script to do it?

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Re: Soil Temps from Metar? Is it possible?
« Reply #13 on: December 08, 2017, 03:18:46 PM »
It's not a metar, however wxsim can be used to extract soil information.
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Re: Soil Temps from Metar? Is it possible?
« Reply #14 on: December 08, 2017, 06:13:46 PM »
I provide soil temps for visitors on my website, a little crude however. I try to update couple times month at around 7AM.  https://www.valentinenebraska.net/soil.php

Valentine Weather - is that a manual update? or do you have a script to do it?

Sorry no script and why I only update couple times each month.
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