Saskatchewan Fire Weather Network: Hourly Observations from 75 Stations

The Saskatchewan Public Safety Agency Fire Weather Network provides real-time hourly weather observations from 75 stations across Saskatchewan. The data includes temperature, humidity, rainfall, wind, dew point, station pressure, radiation, soil conditions, and precipitation measurements. It is quality assessed and continuously operated.

Use Cases

• Model wildfire ignition and spread risk based on temperature, humidity, and wind data.
• Monitor soil moisture conditions for agricultural and ecological research.
• Analyze precipitation patterns using the all-weather precipitation measurements.
• Assess atmospheric stability and fire weather indices based on station pressure and dew point readings.
• Validate regional weather models using the network's real-time hourly observations.

Strengths

• Data is quality assessed, indicating a level of validation.
• Network includes 75 stations, providing a distributed sensor network.
• Provides real-time hourly data feed for timely analysis.
• Reports a wide category of elements including soil and radiation measurements.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data freshness should be verified despite the listed last update date.

Provenance

Source

Saskatchewan Public Safety Agency

Collection Method

Automated station network.

Freshness

Real time

Geography

Saskatchewan, Canada