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How do I find international historical weather, observations and forecasts ?
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Observations and Forecasts:

Look at http://www.wmo.int
http://weather.noaa.gov

Historical Data:
See http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/wmo/wdcamet.html
        http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/ghcn-monthly/index.php
        http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/ncdc.html
           Under Data and Products Category
               click Free Data
               scroll to "Free Data K" or "Free Data N"
               click on 1.  Global Summary of the Day or Global Historical Climate Network (GHCN)

Navy climatology: https://navy.ncdc.noaa.gov/public/contact.html 

For global normals for temperature and precipitation: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/documentlibrary/pdf/climatesoftheworld.pdf  
 

The NOAA Central Climate Data Imaging Project :

http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/data_rescue_home.html

For older data: Monthly Weather Review would have monthly temperature and precipitation summaries, contact NOAA Central Library

(http://www.lib.noaa.gov)

Other contacts:

Howard Diamond (Howard.Diamond@noaa.gov),  Director of the World Data Center for Meteorology, Asheville, North Carolina 

 


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Date 8/24/2009

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