AgroClimatic Information Service (ACIS)

 
 
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 Welcome to ACIS, an interactive tool that helps producers, farm consultants and researchers view weather forecasts, current and historic maps, and access weather data received from more than 270 weather stations in and around Alberta. This service was developed to describe Alberta's weather, climate and related agriculture features to help with your long-term planning and decision-making throughout the year.

You can navigate directly to the viewers by clicking the links below.



Weather Forecasts. View seven day forecasts or several locations as issued by Environment Canada.

ACIS Maps. View maps describing precipitation patterns as far back as 1961. Includes total accumulations, extreme occurences, percent of average and frequency of occurence. Also included are maps of soil moisture, temperature, drought indicies, snow packs and more. Over 30 maps are added each week, tracking current conditions.


Station Data. Graph, compare and download quality controlled data in near-real-time for more than 270 stations dating back to April 2005. Also included are other data sets like precipation and temperature normals, temperature extremes, growing degree days, corn heat units and more.
RSS Data Feeds. Subscribe to the RSS feed and receive and update live quality controlled data feeds from more than 270 stations with hourly and daily weather data from a wide variety of elements like precipitation, temperature, humidity, solar radition, wind speed, soil moisture and soil temperature.



 
 
 
 
For more information about the content of this document, contact Ralph Wright.
This document is maintained by Deb Sutton.
This information published to the web on January 4, 2010.
Last Reviewed/Revised on January 23, 2012.