Thursday, February 26, 2009

Record Rainfall for Seattle - October 2003

I was going through some temperature data and saw abnormally high rainfall totals for the month of October in 2003 for Seattle Washington (almost 9 inches fell during the entire month). Look at the graph below to see what I am talking about:



This data was obtained courtesy of WeatherARC.

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

New York City/ La Guardia Record Temperatures



These are the top 5 coldest and top 5 warmest January temperatures from NYC/ La Guardia for the period on record (1973-2008). I have the temperatures for the other years if you are interested.



These are average temperatures for all the years on record (1973-2009).

This data was obtained courtesy of WeatherARC.

Friday, January 23, 2009

What was the weather like?

What was the weather like on a specific day in the past? What was the weather on my birthday? WeatherARC has all of that information and more available.

Weather data for many locations is available back to 1931 for some locations.

If you are interested in upper air data or simply surface data you can find it on the WeatherARC site. You can also find definitions for things like temperature, degree days, wind, dewpoint, relative humidity, precipitation, and atmospheric pressure by going here.

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Archived Weather Data

Hello!

I know it can be very hard to find archived weather data online. Wouldn't it be nice to go to one website and get all of the archived weather data you need? There is a great site, called WeatherARC, that has both archived upper air and surface observations for many stations across the United States. More stations and more data are being added every day. Getting the data is easy and quick, whether you want data for one station or several stations. Go check it out at www.weatherarc.com.