Re: TARGET: Weather Archives???

[Melissa Davis <mbdavis@tenet.edu>]

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 .


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