MesoWest Information for MOPC2 in Moon Pass, CO, United States Of America (site inactive)
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Latitude: 37° 58' 0" N (deg min sec), 37.9666° (decimal), 3758.00N (LORAN) Longitude: 106° 33' 30" W (deg min sec), -106.5584° (decimal), 10633.50W (LORAN) Elevation: 3395 metres (11139 feet) -- validated against 3383 metres (11099 feet) from Google Location: Moon Pass, CO, United States Of America County: Saguache, CO
Data provider: SNOTEL
Forecast Office: Pueblo (PUB)
The site location should be at the mark shown -- or very close. Clicking within the map area (or you can drag the 'MOPC2' marker) will display the latitude/longitude of that point.
If the displayed location (or elevation) of the weather observing location is incorrect, please drag the marker to the right location (or click in the right location), and then send the updated information.
Please note that we are trying to spot either the Stevenson Screen (or equivalent) or the location where the barometric readings are taken.
Can you help with location quality? Please indicate
if the marker on the map points at the weather instrument cluster:
The location information for this site was gathered from 2 data sources. The source which most closely matches the consensus is chosen. Many of these sources
only report the location to the nearest minute (or hundredth of degree). This can lead to the marker being placed noticeably incorrectly. Please see Discussion of Location Errors for more information.
Show location history.
Date
Latitude
Longitude
Elevation
Name
2013-11-18
37.9500
-106.5500
3396
Moon Pass, CO, United States of America
2014-08-26
37.9666
-106.5584
3395
Moon Pass, CO, United States Of America
The position of the clicked point on the map is:
The position of the 'MOPC2' marker on the map is:
Latitude: dummy (deg min sec), dummy (decimal), dummy (LORAN)
Longitude: dummy (deg min sec), dummy (decimal), dummy (LORAN)
Estimated elevation is dummy metres (dummy feet) from dummy.
Location is dummy (reverse geocoded).
Move marker to new address.
The station (or view from the station) is shown here. You can choose the view direction to see the surroundings. Other information (and somewhat larger images) can be found by clicking on the picture.
You can try to find photographs from the area surrounding the site marker by clicking on Find nearby photographs.(There are some)(There are none)(There may be some)(Automatically loaded if any)
Status: Status: None found.
Clicking on the map above will redo the search centered on the clicked point.
Status: 3 found.
If any images are of the weather station, then please click on those images, and add the 'wxtagged' and 'wx:id=MOPC2' tags to those images. For the station itself, please add the 'wx:station' tag as well.
Some users do not permit other users to add tags to their images. In these cases, just add a comment to the picture asking the photographer to add the tags themselves.
Clicking on the map above will redo the search centered on the clicked point.
You can try to find photographs from the area surrounding the selected point by clicking on Find nearby photographs.
NOTE: If the error above is POSITIVE, then it means that the analysis temperature is HIGHER than the reported temperature.
This means that your sensor is reading COLDER than expected.
MADIS rating
Latest daily graph:
It appears that your station is sited near the edge of a large urban area. This causes the analysis values to be lowered than expected as the quality control system does not take the location of the urban area into account.
Neighboring Stations
This is a list of stations that are close to this station.
Note that this is not the list of stations
that are used in the data analysis. That list of stations is known only to MADIS.
You can see all the stations at MADIS Data Display. Your station should be in the middle of the display.
If you think that the analysis is incorrect, then maybe one of the close stations has failed.
You can look at those for comparison purposes.
The average difference between your station and each station below is listed as well. This may allow you to detect local
stations which are erroneous. You can also use these numbers to adjust your instruments -- especially if a number of ASOS stations
have similar differences to your station. Also, try increasing the analysis period to more than the default 28 days.
The difference is only given if both stations report reasonably often during each day. Some stations
only report every 6 hours, and this makes the average of less interest. In this case, the average is not displayed.
The values reported are the differences between this station and the neighboring station. I.e. if the difference is positive, then this station is reading higher than the neighboring station.
Since this station has not been reporting continuously during the analysis period (it missed 16 days out of 28), the offsets below may not be accurate.
You can also subscribe to an RSS feed to tell you when new stations come online in this area. Choose either within
100 miles or
250 miles .
For stations covered by your Forecast Office: Pueblo (PUB) .
Durango, CO, US (lat 37.2755°, long -107.8800°, altitude 1990 metres)
16.2°F
The sites marked above thus did not report continuously during the analysis period, so the offsets may (probably will) not
be accurate.
Quality Control Notes
This page reports on the quality control checks performed by MADIS. The green check mark and red cross are chosen based
on the average performance during the analysis period (which is selectable above). The red cross can appear even if
MADIS reports that all observations pass the MADIS QC checks.
The 'MADIS rating' reports on the percentage of observations that pass the MADIS checks. You should aim for two thumbs up!
Location Formats
The location is shown in three different formats. Each of these is used in some software, and is shown on some websites.
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