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Jody Newman wrote: > > is GOING TO BE. I have a teacher looking for what the temperatures have > been in Boston for the month of April. She had her class coming daily [snip] > to back track. I've been searching for a site that has archive > information on weather conditions (just finding the temperature is > plenty) but haven't gotten beyond today's conditions and the future [snip] > Anyone know of a site that has OLD weather? Please pass it along and Oh, you guys are gonna LOVE this one! Everything you want to know about weather can be accessed thru WeatherNet (brought to you by the same folks at Univ. Mich. that do _The Weather Underground_). The WeatherNet URL is: http://cirrus.sprl.umich.edu/wxnet/ To answer Jody's specific situation I selected "USA Weather" on the main page; then Under "Climate Information" I selected "USA Weather Data Archive (1996-Present)" . Other choices are: > USA Climate Archive (1940s-1996) > World Climate Archive > High temperatures > Low temperatures > Monthly snowfall > Monthly precipitation > Days with measurable precipitation > Percent of possible sunshine [OK, back to Jody's problem] That last choice took me to a page labeled "Unedited Local Climatological Data" with several different methods for searching their archive. Since I didn't know Boston's Call Sign or WBAN number (whatever that is) I chose "List ordered by Station Name". Which took me to another menu where you can select from a _whole_ lot of cities. The actual URL is http://www.nndc.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/nndc/ph2_lcd_v2.cgi?FNC=qname__Aqmain2_htm Select your city - in this case Boston - and you get a menu labeled Form Generation where you select month & year you are interested in, then press button of form to be generated. Since Jody specifically needed temperatures for April 1998, I chose the "Unedited Monthly Summaries of Daily Observations". The report you get includes Max, Min, Avg. Departure from Normal Temperature along with Avg. Dew Pt and several other things. Includes Signigicant Weather codes (presented in standard National Weather Service code letters), Snow/Ice on Ground, Precipitation, Pressure, & Wind speed and direction. The whole thing prints in landscape format! An absolutely wonderful resource for weather projects. Between the 2 archives you can choose any month/year going back to the 1940s! Aside from the years covered, the major difference between the two archives is the way the data is presented: 40-60 comes in a graph where you select the variables presented; 96-now is in a text-only spreadsheet type format . -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Melissa Davis Librarian Splendora Middle School Splendora I.S.D. 26175 FM 2090 Splendora, TX 77372 Internet: mbdavis@tenet.edu PHONE: (713)689-2853 mbdavis@lcc.net FAX: (713)689-8702 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-= To quit LM_NET (or set NOMAIL or DIGEST), Send an email message to listserv@listserv.syr.edu In the message write EITHER: 1) SIGNOFF LM_NET 2) SET LM_NET NOMAIL or 3) SET LM_NET DIGEST * NOTE: Please allow time for confirmation from Listserv. For LM_NET Help & Archives see: http://ericir.syr.edu/lm_net/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=