Sources

Everything on faribaultweather.com comes from these services, updated automatically on our own server.

Forecasts and warnings

National Weather Service (NWS) · NWS Weather Prediction Center (WPC) · NWS Storm Prediction Center (SPC) · NOAA Climate Prediction Center (CPC) outlooks and teleconnection indexes

Observations and radar

Faribault Municipal Airport (KFBL) · NWS Chanhassen radar (KMPX) · NWS national radar mosaic · Iowa Environmental Mesonet · NOAA's MRMS (Multi-Radar Multi-Sensor) 24-hour rain estimate, through the Iowa Environmental Mesonet, for the radar page's rain layer only · CoCoRaHS (Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network)

Models

Aguacero Weather API (HRRR, NAM, GFS) · Euro model data © ECMWF, CC BY 4.0 · Open-Meteo forecasts, ensembles and upper-air data (CC BY 4.0)

Rivers

U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), including its daily flow statistics · NOAA National Water Prediction Service (NWPS)

Climate

ACIS / Faribault co-op station¹ · NOAA NCEI 1991–2020 normals

Sky and air

NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) · U.S. Naval Observatory (moonrise, moonset and moon phases) · Open-Meteo air quality · Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) smoke forecast, through Open-Meteo · Kp index since 1932 from GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences (CC BY 4.0) · Celestrak (space station orbits) · NASA eclipse catalogs: Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA's GSFC · International Meteor Organization meteor shower calendars · PyEphem (sun, moon, planets and space station positions, computed here)

¹ Record temperatures from the Faribault co-op station, 1895–June 2011; later records are not included.