Colorado Climate Trends

Over 140 years of Data Meets the 21st Century

The Colorado Climate Center operating out of Colorado State University's Atmospheric Department has been a program of excellence for over a century. The center in Fort Collins has been facilitating many climate programs that citizens of both Colorado and the United States have taken for granted. One of these programs, the Cooperative Observer Program run by NOAA, has been collecting weather data from small public and private weather stations for years. There are over 500 stations that have participated in Colorado alone, reporting daily max/min temperatures, precipitation, snow amounts, and other types of climate data. The Climate Center decided to make some of this data available to the public and chose Zilifone for the task.

The Solution

The Colorado Climate Center has had a handful of different developers over the years that created a handful of different web based systems for data access and Zilifone decided that it was time to standardize the system. The only handful the climate trends site has now are intuitive features for the end user. Built from the ground up and working with all of the existing data sources the center has, the new climate trends site gets data as soon as it is collected from the observers allowing the general public timely data that paying customers in the past never had the chance to get. The site is organized by which station you are interested in, which is easily found by either in a list, on an interactive map, or by entering in the station number. We also made multiple plotters that make the experience of exploring Colorado's Climate fun, easy, and exciting. With the focus on climate change in today's society, the site offers real data that can either confirm or change your mind about the climate.