FL510 Posted March 4, 2013 Share Posted March 4, 2013 I'm looking for archived (and free) Monthly Weather Summaries (CLM) like the message below. My local WFO website only has them for the previous 12-calendar months. Spent 20 minutes on the NCDC website this morning and I find it about the most confusing website I've ever browsed (let's just say I didn't get anywhere). I'm looking for a archive of these messages that extends back several years. Does one exist? 000CXUS51 KCLE 010553CLMCLECLIMATE REPORTNATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH1251 AM EST FRI MAR 1 2013......................................THE CLEVELAND OH CLIMATE SUMMARY FOR THE MONTH OF FEBRUARY 2013...CLIMATE NORMAL PERIOD 1981 TO 2010CLIMATE RECORD PERIOD 1871 TO 2013WEATHER OBSERVED NORMAL DEPART LAST YEAR`S VALUE DATE(S) VALUE FROM VALUE NORMAL.............................................................TEMPERATURE (F)RECORD HIGH 74 02/26/2000 LOW -16 02/10/1899HIGHEST 50 02/11LOWEST 7 02/18 02/17AVG. MAXIMUM 34.5 37.5 -3.0 41.4AVG. MINIMUM 21.2 23.6 -2.4 28.3MEAN 27.9 30.5 -2.6 34.9DAYS MAX >= 90 0 0.0 0.0 0DAYS MAX <= 32 11 9.2 1.8 4DAYS MIN <= 32 26 22.1 3.9 22DAYS MIN <= 0 0 0.5 -0.5 0PRECIPITATION (INCHES)RECORD MAXIMUM 7.73 1887 MINIMUM 0.18 1877TOTALS 2.30 2.34 -0.04 2.26DAYS >= .01 16 13.9 2.1 13DAYS >= .10 8 6.4 1.6 6DAYS >= .50 1 1.0 0.0 1DAYS >= 1.00 0 0.1 -0.1 0GREATEST 24 HR. TOTAL 0.67 02/26 TO 02/27 0.75SNOWFALL (INCHES)RECORDS TOTAL 39.1 1993TOTALS 19.8 14.9 4.9 7.6SINCE 7/1 40.7 52.2 -11.5 33.8DAYS >= 1.0 6 4.4 1.6 2GREATEST 24 HR TOTAL 4.9 MMDEGREE_DAYSHEATING TOTAL 1033 965 68 866 SINCE 7/1 4179 4217 -38 3636COOLING TOTAL 0 0 0 0 SINCE 1/1 0 0 0 0..............................................................WIND (MPH)AVERAGE WIND SPEED 11.4HIGHEST WIND SPEED/DIRECTION 39/250 DATE 02/11HIGHEST GUST SPEED/DIRECTION 50/260 DATE 02/11SKY COVERAVERAGE SKY COVER 0.90AVERAGE RH (PERCENT) 75WEATHER CONDITIONS. NUMBER OF DAYS WITHTHUNDERSTORM 0 MIXED PRECIP 0HEAVY RAIN 0 RAIN 1LIGHT RAIN 5 FREEZING RAIN 0LT FREEZING RAIN 1 HAIL 0HEAVY SNOW 2 SNOW 8LIGHT SNOW 19 SLEET 1FOG 19 FOG W/VIS <= 1/4 MILE 2HAZE 5- INDICATES NEGATIVE NUMBERS.R INDICATES RECORD WAS SET OR TIED.MM INDICATES DATA IS MISSING.T INDICATES TRACE AMOUNT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted March 5, 2013 Share Posted March 5, 2013 Somebody on this weather board told me of this web site: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/IPS/ You can look at "local climatological data" for free. This is probably what you are looking for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FL510 Posted March 5, 2013 Author Share Posted March 5, 2013 Somebody on this weather board told me of this web site: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/IPS/ You can look at "local climatological data" for free. This is probably what you are looking for. Thank you for the recommendation. That is a great site that I will definitely find useful, however what I'm really looking for, the "average sky cover" in the CLM report seemed to be missing from the data on the above site, at least for Cleveland. Apparently the NWS doesn't use the "minutes of sunshine" instruments anymore so I must use averaged data from METARs and ceilometer hits, but that data wasn't available on the local climatological data summaries. I'm specifically looking for monthly sky cover averages for winter months going back about 5 years for various cities in the Great Lakes and southern Canada. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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