Sources, Credits & Disclosures

Our forecasts

Every forecast, weather brief and forecast discussion on corwx.com is written by the meteorologists on the Central Oregon Weather team. The live parts of the site (current conditions, station readings, camera pictures, radar, satellite and alerts) come straight from the sources below, and each one carries its source's credit wherever it appears.

Where our data comes from

Central Oregon Weather brings together data, cameras and maps from public agencies and community partners.

Forecasts, alerts and observations: National Weather Service; NOAA Aviation Weather Center (airport reports)

Radar and satellite: NOAA GOES-West; NOAA MRMS; NEXRAD radar via Iowa Environmental Mesonet; NASA GIBS

Cameras: ODOT TripCheck; Oregon Hazards Lab (OHAZ) wildfire cameras on the ALERTWest network; Mt. Bachelor; Hoodoo; Webformix; Meissner Nordic

Weather stations: CORWX Community Stations, hosted by local WeatherFlow Tempest owners; Oregon Department of Transportation road weather stations (TripCheck); Citizen Weather Observer Program; CoCoRaHS; Meissner Nordic

Reservoirs, lakes and rivers: U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Pacific Northwest Hydromet; U.S. Geological Survey stream gauges (provisional data, subject to change)

Night sky: NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center; CelesTrak

Maps: OpenStreetMap contributors; U.S. Geological Survey; U.S. Census Bureau TIGERweb

Cameras and pictures

Camera pictures belong to the agencies, resorts and organizations that run the cameras, and each picture is shown with its owner's credit. Names and landmarks added to camera views are ours, to help you see where a camera is looking.

Oregon Department of Transportation data

Road weather station readings and road camera pictures marked ODOT come from the Oregon Department of Transportation through its TripCheck service. Our server collects them and keeps its own copies; credit for them belongs to ODOT.

ODOT provides this information as is, without warranty of any kind. It depends on networks and systems that may be beyond ODOT's control, so it can be delayed, incomplete or unavailable at times. Anyone relying on it does so at their own risk, and the State of Oregon, ODOT and the public agencies providing the data are not responsible for its accuracy or completeness, or for actions taken based on it.

How this site is built

The code behind corwx.com, including the maps, live data feeds, camera tools and publishing tools, is written with the help of AI coding tools (Claude, by Anthropic). Our team decides what gets built, chooses the data sources and cameras, and reviews every change before it goes live. AI is not used to write our forecasts.

Partners and advertising

Connect Central Oregon, a local nonprofit, is Central Oregon Weather's fiscal sponsor. Community partners contribute money, equipment or work to keep Central Oregon informed. Advertising partners support the site through paid placements.

Questions about any of this? Contact us.