Colorado Snow Depth - Winter in Review (2018-19)

Daily snow depth (in inches) across the state of Colorado as measured at 200+ individual locations between October 1, 2018 and July 1, 2019. Data courtesy of NRCS National Water and Climate center's Snow Telemetry (SNOTEL) and Snow Course Data and Products.

Snowiest Sites

Zoom and pan map to filter. Top 10 snowiest sites visible within map boundaries are displayed.

About

Built for fun and to play with some new datasets and technologies.

All data sourced from SNOTEL reports.
Server API application built in PHP 7 using Laravel Lumen framework.
Mapping provided via the Mapbox WebGL API.
Snow depth APIs return data in GeoJSON format in order to play nicely with the Mapbox API.
Data stored in PostgreSQL.
Client side application utilizing Vue.js for interaction and reactivity.
Iconography from Maki icons and Material Design, and color scheme credit to Nord.
Static front end hosted via netlify, Postgres database and Lumen API application running at Heroku, all fronted by Cloudflare for content delivery and caching.

Source code

API app github.com/bentaber/co-snow-api
Client side github.com/bentaber/co-snow-ui

Raw data

Colorado based SNOTEL sites meta data [csv]
Winter 2018-19 snow depth data for Colorado based SNOTEL sites [csv]