FOSSTON, MINNESOTA

Station Metadata


From NCDC Station Historical Listing for NWS Cooperative Network
ObsTyp: t-Temperature-1, p-Daily precip-2, w-(blank), s-(blank), e-Evap-5
h-Hourly precip - 6 0.01" Universal, or - 7 0.10" Fisher-Porter
U - Observed, but beginning date is uncertain
Count Number Station Name Lat Long Elev Start ObsTyp End
(Coop) (From NCDC listing) ddmm dddmm ftx10 yy mm tpwseh yy mm
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297 212916-1 FOSSTON POWER PLANT 4734 09544 0129 48 01 U U U 69 08
298 212916-1 FOSSTON 4735 09544 0130 69 08 U U U 81 04
299 212916-1 FOSSTON 4734 09545 0130 81 04 U U U 83 09
300 212916-1 FOSSTON 4734 09545 0131 83 09 U U U 86 07
301 212916-1 FOSSTON 1 E 4734 09544 0131 86 12 1 2 7 99 99

Statistics by element

(From WRCC data archives)
Last Compiled on Apr.23, 2009.
Dates are format of YYYYMMDD. Numbers are total Number of observations
STATION START END PRECP SNWFL SNWDP TMAX TMIN TOBS EVAP WNDMV
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212916 19480801 20081231 20595 20693 19369 21093 21077 20883 0 0
STATION - NCDC COOP Station number
START - First Date in record
END - Last Date in record (when last compiled)
PRECP - Precipitation
SNWFL - Snowfall
SNWDP - Snow depth
TMAX - Daily Max. Temperature
TMIN - Daily Min. Temperature
TOBS - Temperature at Observation time
EVAP - Evaporation
WNDMV - Wind Movement

Statistics by observation

(From WRCC data archives)
Last Compiled on Apr.23, 2009.
Dates are format of YYYYMMDD. Numbers represent one day and one day is considered present if any element is reported.
STATION NAME START END POSBL PRSNT LNGPR MISSG LNGMS
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212916 FOSSTON 1 E 19480801 20081231 22068 21211 5843 857 457

STATION - NCDC COOP Station number
NAME - Most recent name in NCDC history file
START - First Date in record
END - Last Date in record (when last compiled)
POSBL - Possible number of observations between START and END date
PRSNT - Number of days present in record
LNGPR - Largest number of consecutive observations
MISSG - Total number of missing days (no observation)
LNGMS - Largest number of consecutive missing observations