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Apart from the traditional text-based observations and forecasts, meteorological information in other formats can be very useful to individuals and weather sensitive businesses for use in their planning and decision-making. That’s why Environment Canada’s Meteorological Service has a vast offering of data available via the internet, where users can download what they need.
Through this http service, users can find a variety of data such as:
- Three, hourly numerical weather model outputs for North America or the world offered in a gridded binary (GRIB) format;
- Probability forecasts derived using a technique called “ensemble forecasting;”
- Observed and forecast vertical temperature profiles;
- Official forecasts with hourly values in different formats (XML, CSV);
- A variety of radar images, including precipitation accumulations;
- Hourly Canadian site observations in XML format;
- Tables derived from weather models containing weather elements like temperature, wind, cloud cover, precipitation amounts, etc.;
- Varied national and international weather bulletins in text format;
- Air quality data; and
- Wave model data.
New data, information and formats are added as they become available.
If you want to know more about this service, including how to access our data server, please contact us.