<p>This the portal for the NOAA historical records</p>

<p><a href="https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/search" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/search</a></p>

<p>You can specify what you are looking for (Summaries, or other), the time range, the area. </p>

<p>They have records starting in the 1800`s to today.</p>

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marsisalie
<p>I use the <a href="http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/rcc.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Regional Climate Center</a> network for data. There are 6 different climate centers hosted by various research institutes, they each have their own database system for sharing data. </p>

<p>I don't know how it compares to the other linked sources, but what I value about the climate centers is the presence of lots of incomplete records from smaller stations. I'm not sure if those records are available through NOAA, but I do a lot of computer aggregation where more data points is more better. </p>

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<p>This is my favorite resource for historical climate data <a href="http://cdiac.ornl.gov/epubs/ndp/ushcn/ushcn.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://cdiac.ornl.gov/epubs/ndp/ushcn/ushcn.html</a></p>

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Note: *CDIAC as currently configured and hosted by ORNL will cease operations on September 30, 2017* and *CDIAC will regrettably no longer be performing annual data updates to our interface for NOAA's USHCN database, with the final year of data being 2014* So this resource is not much use. It points to http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/ for followup
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<p>I went to the web site of the <a href="http://w2.weather.gov/climate/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">National Weather Service</a> and clicked around but it was fruitless. How can I get historical weather data in the US?</p>

<p>I want to get daily high and low and precipitation for a particular weather station for time periods such as 1930 to 1940.</p>

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This [totally off-topic question on SO](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3200984/where-can-i-find-historical-raw-weather-data) has resources too
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How can I get historical weather data for the United States?
Tyler Durden
# How can I get historical weather data for the United States?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2016-11-12)

I went to the web site of the [National Weather Service](http://w2.weather.gov/climate/) and clicked around but it was fruitless. How can I get historical weather data in the US?

I want to get daily high and low and precipitation for a particular weather station for time periods such as 1930 to 1940.

**Tags:** meteorology, open-data

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: This [totally off-topic question on SO](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3200984/where-can-i-find-historical-raw-weather-data) has resources too  

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## 3 answers

### Answer by username_2 on 2016-11-12. Score: 3 | Accepted answer

This the portal for the NOAA historical records

<https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/search>

You can specify what you are looking for (Summaries, or other), the time range, the area.

They have records starting in the 1800`s to today.


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### Answer by username_3 on 2016-11-18. Score: 1

I use the [Regional Climate Center](http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/rcc.html) network for data. There are 6 different climate centers hosted by various research institutes, they each have their own database system for sharing data.

I don't know how it compares to the other linked sources, but what I value about the climate centers is the presence of lots of incomplete records from smaller stations. I'm not sure if those records are available through NOAA, but I do a lot of computer aggregation where more data points is more better.


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### Answer by username_4 on 2016-11-21. Score: 0

This is my favorite resource for historical climate data <http://cdiac.ornl.gov/epubs/ndp/ushcn/ushcn.html>

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: Note: *CDIAC as currently configured and hosted by ORNL will cease operations on September 30, 2017* and *CDIAC will regrettably no longer be performing annual data updates to our interface for NOAA's USHCN database, with the final year of data being 2014* So this resource is not much use. It points to http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/ for followup  

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