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Cedar Valley Weather can at times be completely different than the areas around it. It is not uncommon for Lehi to get Snow and rain and the Cedar Valley to stay clear. A couple of years back the city of Eagle Mountain and Utah State University installed two weather stations in Eagle Mountain. One of the stations is located in the Ranches area and the other is Located in City Center.
It is well known that Eagle Mountain City and the Cedar Valley area have a unique climate. Through a partnership with Utah State University, Eagle Mountain City has two advanced weather stations, located in Pony Express Park and the Nolen Park annex. These weather stations provide precise real-time and historical data. You can view the data at any time by accessing the two Eagle Mountain Weather Station links below. [Source: Eagle Mountain City website]From the cities website, you can link to the two advanced data stations, and you can download data from them as well. Below is some statistics and data that was collected through 2019. The data is then supplied by the Utah Climate Center at the USU for download and review.
The Eagle Mountain Nolan Park weather station reported the following 2019 statistics.
Average Air Temperature: 48.87 (Average of daily averages) Maximum Air Temperature: 96.1 (7/29/2019 and 7/30/2019) Minimum Air Temperature: 3.3 (1/2/2019 Wind Max: 27.3 mph (8/3/2019) Wind Average: 2.15 mph (Average of daily averages) Download: [wpfilebase tag=”fileurl” id=4074 linktext=”Complete Data Set” /]The Eagle Mountain Pony Express weather station reported the following 2019 statistics.
Average Air Temperature: 47.70 (Average of daily averages) Maximum Air Temperature: 100.1 (7/22/2019) Minimum Air Temperature: -5.3 (1/2/2019) Wind Max: 42.5 mph (8/8/2019) Wind Average: 4.64 (Average of daily averages) Download: [wpfilebase tag=”fileurl” id=4075 linktext=”Complete Data Set” /]Combined Graphs for Comparison
[visualizer id=”17713″] [visualizer id=”17715″] [visualizer id=”17718″] [visualizer id=”17720″] [visualizer id=”17722″]MJ/m2 is a measure of the total amount of radiant energy (number of Joules * 1,000,000) (in the visible spectrum as measured by the radiation sensors) that has fallen on a surface area of one square metre over a given period.
There are also a number of other weather stations scattered through the city. You can see a list of them and see their related data from the Weather Underground – https://www.wunderground.com/weather/us/ut/eagle-mountain/84005
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This is totally nerdy and awesome! I love the access to the data. Thank you for sharing!