Parameters Updated: Added parameters for Chill hours based on hourly data, including chillhours and chillhours_45F_model.These will appear in a new "Thermal Unit" group with degree day variables in the API Builder
Apr 4 2024
System Updates: Changing the backend database connector to allow for multi-queries for data pulls.
System Updates: Adding distance conversions for visibility
System Updates: Data queries are now grouped in chunks to help minimize server memory usage
Sep 5 2023
System Updates: When using a max or min parameter, the obtime returned will now correspond to the observation time of that max or min value.
Jun 1 2023
System Updates: Fixed a bug that affected monthly intervals where these start and end datetimes for each month period incorrectly shifted and became increasingly offset over time.
Apr 25 2023
System Updates: Fixed a bug that affected output when 'ob' was both a selected variable and attribute.
System Updates: Added addition information on the CSV output for the variable output order
Dec 7 2022
System Updates: Speed-related changes to back-end process to retrieve raw data, value processing and value conversions
Dec 2 2022
Website Updates: The web interface was rewritten using Bootstrap 5 CSS. This allows for easier viewing on smaller screens.
Website Updates: The Locations page replaces filter searching with filtering by map view
Nov 1 2022
Parameters Updated: wbgt2m has been changed from the Stull method (wbgt2m_stull) to the NDFD method (wbgt_ndfd).
Oct 7 2022
System Updates: Speed-related changes to backend process to retrieve raw data, process data over each period
Aug 26 2022
System Updates: Fixed a bug that would hide hourly data from sub-hourly intervals
System Updates: Changes to use daily reported data from hourly observations (ex: ASOS reports daily airtempmax and airtempmin in hourly observation)
Aug 3 2022
Parameters Updated: ECONet hourly parameters, such as airtempavg2m, have been updated to include any pre-calculated averages/maximums available.
Jun 1 2022
System Updates: A bug was patched that affected monthly intervals where these start and end datetimes for each month period incorrectly shifted and became increasingly offset over time.
Mar 9 2022
Website Updates: Moved API updates from the homepage into its own webpage
Mar 1 2022
System Updates: User request limits are now based on the number of requests that successfully returned data. Note: This may need to be adjusted in future based on system performance.
Parameters Added: Added wetbulb temperature (wetbulbtemp) and wetbulb globe temperature (wbgt2m for ECONet) and statistical variants (max/min/avg) to the parameter list.
Jan 25 2022
System Updates: Fixed a bug that created a bad accumulated value for final observation when using interval=any
Jan 24 2022
System Updates: Added CSV_long as output format
System Updates: Fixed a bug that that caused some data offsets issues between minute data and hourly periods
Sep 21 2021
Website Updates: Updates to the locations, networks and parameters tables to better highlight networks listed
Aug 9 2021
Website Updates: Past user requests are now on the History page
Website Updates: Added API changes to homepage
Jul 31 2021
Network Updated: ASOS and AWOS stations now include those within 25 miles of North Carolina
Network Updated: ECONet Daily Data removed due to issue with calculation and timezone shifts and daylight saving. Parameters are still available using hourly data.
Jul 24 2021
Network Updated: USACE stations have been renamed to follow USACE station IDs
Jul 7 2021
System Updates: Fixed a bug that accumulated values that failed QC
Jun 14 2021
Network Updated: Renamed RAWS-MW network to RAWS network for simplification and completed migration of backend data sources to MesoWest
May 24 2021
Website Updates: Visual changes for chart output, improved web accessibility and added links to Cardinal
Network Added: The new network "ECOExt" (ECONet Extended) has been added. It replaces both "NCSU" and "Experimental" networks, which have been removed.
Station Updated: The station "CAMP" has been moved to a new network named "ECOExT". It was previously "NCSU"
Station Updated: The station "GRANDFATHR" has been moved to a new network named "ECOExT". It was previously "Experimental"