This is a dump of Iowa Environmental Mesonet wind reports from
ASOS weather stations over the CONUS.  The columns are:

         utc_valid - Observation Timestamp in UTC <24hour>
                id - 3 Character Site ID
               lon - Longitude (east) of station
               lat - Latitude (north) of station
    wind_speed_kts - 2 minute wind speed knots
    wind_direction - 2 minute wind direction (degrees north)
     wind_gust_kts - Peak 5 second gust within past two minutes knots
peak_wind_gust_kts - METAR peak gust in knots
    peak_wind_drct - METAR peak wind direction of gust
utc_peak_wind_time - METAR time of peak wind report in UTC
        ts_present - 1 (True) or 0 (False) was TS reported in METAR

METAR reports can contain the option 'PK WND' reports, which sometimes
contain the wind direction and time of the peak wind report.

Observation counts:
 2007 27,070,942
 2008 28,126,282
 2009 31,054,147
 2010 34,034,277
 2011 35,383,407
 2012 34,807,488
 2013 36,294,296
 2014 37,695,554
 2015 39,251,900
 2016 38,424,164
 2017 41,209,739
 2018 40,256,098
 2019 40,908,363
 2020 41,215,894
 2021 41,144,663

Contact: daryl herzmann akrherz@iastate.edu

Updates:
  25 Sep 2019 - Was thunder (TS) reported in the METAR added to files.
  13 Dec 2022 - Dumped years 2019-2021

Questions & Answers

1) Why is the 2018 file so much larger?

   A) Unknown difference with the gzip compression used.  2018 did not
      compress as well for some reason.  The extracted sizes are comparable
      2722509400 Jul 31 14:30 2017.csv
      2654530361 Jul 31 14:30 2018.csv

2) Why doesn't your database have wind gusts that were found in Local Storm Reports
   attributed to ASOS stations?

   A) ASOS is a general term used to classify automated stations from a number of
      different networks.  In general, FAA/NWS ASOS sites have the ability to send
      SPECI reports that contain more detailed wind gust information.  Non-federal sites
      often only send scheduled reports once per hour or maybe 3 times per hour.  Thus
      they may not report peak winds fully.  A NWS Office may be manually querying the
      station or getting more detailed wind observations by other means.
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[ ]2011.csv.gz2019-09-25 10:11 256M 
[ ]2012.csv.gz2019-09-25 10:11 357M 
[ ]2013.csv.gz2019-09-25 10:11 242M 
[ ]2014.csv.gz2019-09-25 10:11 252M 
[ ]2015.csv.gz2019-09-25 10:11 259M 
[ ]2016.csv.gz2019-09-25 10:11 273M 
[ ]2017.csv.gz2019-09-25 10:11 292M 
[ ]2018.csv.gz2019-09-25 10:12 555M 
[ ]2019.csv.gz2022-12-13 10:17 455M 
[ ]2020.csv.gz2022-12-13 10:25 327M 
[ ]2021.csv.gz2022-12-13 10:33 533M