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[raindancewx]

I wanted to let everyone on here know about this website I discovered when trying to find Mexican weather records.

https://www.visualcrossing.com/weather-data

There are thousands of locations globally with daily weather records that can be downloaded for free. When precise records for a smaller city are unavailable they use pretty rigorous elevation and location interpolations as estimates as well.

I was able to come up with some generalizations of local lapse rates and various other things I've been wanting to study in global monsoon patterns using their data. The climate score table is my subjective assessment of how frequent pleasant days are in a given spot. Very cold or very hot days get negative scores.

The first Mexcan/second data table is my summary of range in monthly average high temperature, average temperature, with latitude and elevation information. Pre/Evp is my assessment of the Koppen Climate type, in the sense of whether theoretical evaporation exceeds observed precipitation or not. The highland subtropical climate zone of Mexican is maybe 1/5 of the country but it has 50% of their population - pretty special climate type. Often ~30 inches of rain, with lows rarely below freezing and highs rarely above 90. Routinely 300+ daily highs in the 60s/70s or 70s/80s.

Climate Score	-3	-2	-1	0	1	2	2	1	0	-1	-2	-3		-4	-5
Oct 2021-Sept 2022	10s	20s	30s	40s	50s	60s	70s	80s	90s	100s	110s	120s	Score	0s	-0s
Albuquerque	0	1	2	36	58	64	55	86	59	4	0	0	374
Queretaro	0	0	0	0	0	12	175	161	17	0	0	0	535
Pachuca	0	0	0	0	2	70	225	67	1	0	0	0	659
Durango	0	0	0	3	4	15	175	138	29	0	0	0	522
Ruidoso	1	0	17	29	78	67	114	54	5	0	0	0	474
Phoenix	0	0	0	0	9	32	63	77	71	91	22	0	141
Minneapolis	12	33	49	46	36	21	70	66	17	1	0	0	76	14
Philadelphia	0	4	18	45	60	53	66	71	48	0	0	0	343
Jacksonville	0	0	0	2	15	45	82	132	88	1	0	0	400
Richmond	0	1	10	28	51	56	72	89	58	0	0	0	384
Charlotte	0	0	4	18	44	57	78	95	68	1	0	0	404
Boston	1	13	31	55	63	63	70	48	20	1	0	0	316
Seattle	0	3	12	75	123	55	57	27	13	0	0	0	356
Las Vegas	0	0	0	8	37	58	72	50	66	66	8	0	265
Salt Lake City	0	6	38	47	64	52	40	32	52	34	0	0	196
Dallas	0	0	6	9	26	42	72	81	82	47	0	0	282
LA Airport	0	0	0	0	13	133	156	54	7	2	0	0	643
Burbank	0	0	0	0	13	52	109	101	75	15	0	0	421
El Paso	0	0	2	4	32	56	62	82	93	34	0	0	314
Denver	3	8	22	27	66	59	49	62	62	5	0	0	284	2
Billings	6	15	22	51	72	62	38	44	39	7	0	0	199	5	4
Flagstaff	0	4	32	47	68	78	82	54	0	0	0	0	402
Vancouver	2	6	23	96	79	74	63	22					334

 

City	Annual T	Temp (C)	Pre/Evp	Latt	Elev	Hi Var(F)
Cuauhtemoc	55.0	12.8	85%	28	6,760	25.0
Toluca	56.3	13.5	136%	19	8,730	9.0
Pachuca	59.0	15.0	131%	20	7,979	9.5
San Cristobal de las casas	59.0	15.0	187%	16	7,200	9.5
Zacatecas	60.3	15.7	83%	22	8,010	15.7
Tlaxcala	60.8	16.0	139%	19	7,346	9.7
Durango	62.4	16.9	86%	24	6,201	17.8
Ciudad Juarez	62.6	17.0	36%	31	3,730	39.4
Fresnillo	62.8	17.1	67%	23	7,250	17.1
Puebla	63.0	17.2	155%	19	7,005	9.0
San Luis Potosi	63.3	17.4	62%	22	6,115	14.0
Mexico City	63.7	17.6	135%	19	7,350	9.2
Tijuana	64.0	17.8	65%	32	65	14.1
Nogales	64.0	17.8	72%	31	3,934	30.3
Morelia	64.8	18.2	125%	19	6,300	12.3
Saltillo	64.9	18.3	56%	25	5,250	19.0
Aguascalientes	65.1	18.4	82%	22	6,194	7.9
Atlixco	65.1	18.4	118%	19	3,396	15.2
Chihuahua	65.5	18.6	59%	28	4,635	28.6
Guanajuato	65.7	18.7	112%	21	6,709	15.0
San Miguel de Allende	65.8	18.8	86%	21	6,200	13.9
Queretaro	66.0	18.9	80%	20	5,970	13.9
Xalapa	66.6	19.2	216%	19	4,649	11.7
Tepic	68.5	20.3	181%	21	3,020	9.7
Guadalajara	69.6	20.9	144%	20	5,138	9.0
Cuernavaca	69.6	20.9	181%	19	4,950	14.0
Oaxaca	70.3	21.3	106%	17	5,102	11.1
Zamora	70.7	21.5	121%	20	5,184	12.4
Chilpancingo	71.2	21.8	122%	17	4,111	6.6
Monclova	71.6	22.0	52%	27	2,030	28.9
Torreon	71.8	22.1	28%	25	3,670	23.6
Monterrey	72.1	22.3	81%	25	1,770	25.3
Cabo San Lucas	75.0	23.9	29%	22	30	15.0
Reynosa	75.4	24.1	59%	26	108	27.0
Culiacan	77.0	25.0	86%	24	233	13.5
Mazatlan	77.0	25.0	103%	23	33	14.6
Guaymas	77.2	25.1	28%	28	30	20.9
Hermosillo	77.2	25.1	49%	29	700	28.4
Veracruz	77.7	25.4	199%	19	30	12.0
Cozumel	77.9	25.5	189%	20	46	5.6
Colima	77.9	25.5	112%	19	1,500	7.9
Tuxtla Gutierrez	78.4	25.8	120%	16	1,713	10.6
Merida	80.1	26.7	127%	21	30	10.2
Zihuatanejo	80.2	26.8	129%	17	70	2.5
Campeche	80.6	27.0	127%	20	33	12.2
Villahermosa	80.8	27.1	238%	18	70	13.0
Acapulco	82.2	27.9	160%	16	100	3.4
Salina Cruz	82.9	28.3	133%	16	3	7.4
Apatzingan	83.1	28.4	89%	19	1,066	13.9

You can pick a retirement destination - by high -

City	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sept	Oct	Nov	Dec
Toluca	66.4	68.7	72.9	74.8	75.2	72.0	69.4	69.6	69.3	69.6	68.4	66.2
San Cristobal de las casas	68.5	70.5	73.2	74.3	73.6	72.3	72.5	72.5	71.1	70.3	69.3	67.8
Zacatecas	64.0	66.7	70.9	75.9	79.7	78.3	74.8	74.5	72.5	71.8	69.8	64.8
Cuauhtemoc	60.1	64.4	68.2	74.7	79.5	85.1	80.4	79.2	76.6	73.0	66.6	62.8
Pachuca	69.8	73.0	76.6	79.3	78.8	74.8	72.9	74.1	71.2	71.2	71.2	70.5
Tijuana	68.5	69.4	69.4	71.8	74.3	77.4	82.0	82.6	82.0	78.8	74.3	70.0
Mexico City	71.2	74.3	78.3	80.4	80.2	77.7	75.4	75.4	74.1	73.6	72.9	71.4
San Luis Potosi	69.1	72.5	77.7	81.9	83.1	80.1	76.6	77.0	74.8	73.8	72.3	69.3
Tlaxcala	71.8	74.3	78.6	81.1	81.5	77.7	76.1	76.5	75.0	75.7	74.3	72.1
Fresnillo	67.8	71.4	76.5	80.2	84.9	83.3	78.8	77.9	76.5	75.9	72.9	68.7
Xalapa	70.2	72.5	77.7	81.0	81.9	79.3	77.5	78.8	77.9	75.7	73.4	71.1
Puebla	73.4	75.0	78.6	81.5	82.4	79.5	77.5	77.5	76.6	76.6	75.9	74.5
Durango	68.9	71.8	76.1	81.0	86.0	86.7	82.4	81.7	80.1	78.1	73.4	68.9
Nogales	64.0	64.6	69.8	76.8	84.7	93.4	92.3	89.8	87.3	79.5	70.2	63.1
Ciudad Juarez	56.7	62.4	68.2	80.6	88.9	96.1	95.9	94.3	88.0	78.4	66.4	60.3
Saltillo	67.5	70.5	76.5	82.2	85.8	86.5	85.5	84.6	79.9	76.8	72.7	68.2
Guanajuato	72.1	75.4	80.8	84.9	87.1	83.7	80.4	80.2	79.0	77.9	75.6	72.7
Atlixco	75.7	78.1	82.2	83.5	83.5	79.9	79.2	79.5	77.9	78.3	77.7	75.6
Aguascalientes	72.1	75.2	79.7	84.2	87.3	85.3	81.1	81.0	79.3	78.3	76.3	72.5
Chihuahua	64.6	70.2	75.6	82.2	90.0	93.2	89.8	86.5	84.6	80.2	71.4	64.8
Queretaro	73.4	76.3	81.7	85.1	87.3	84.6	80.4	80.2	78.3	78.6	76.8	74.3
Morelia	74.8	78.1	82.2	86.0	87.1	83.1	79.0	78.8	77.9	77.9	77.5	75.6
San Miguel de Allende	73.4	77.4	83.3	86.4	87.3	84.4	81.0	81.0	79.3	77.9	76.3	73.8
Cuernavaca	77.4	79.7	83.8	86.2	85.5	80.8	79.2	79.0	77.2	78.6	78.4	77.4
Tepic	76.3	78.1	80.2	83.7	86.0	84.6	82.8	82.8	82.4	82.0	80.8	77.5
Guadalajara	76.5	79.7	84.2	88.2	90.5	86.9	81.5	81.1	80.8	80.8	79.5	76.5
Monterrey	69.3	73.8	80.4	86.0	90.0	92.8	94.6	94.1	88.7	81.7	75.4	70.2
Veracruz	76.5	77.0	81.3	84.6	88.0	88.5	88.2	88.2	87.4	85.5	81.9	78.6
Chilpancingo	82.2	83.5	86.4	88.2	88.3	84.0	82.2	82.9	81.7	82.6	82.9	81.9
Monclova	67.5	72.5	81.3	88.7	93.2	96.4	95.7	94.8	89.1	82.4	75.6	70.3
Oaxaca	81.7	85.1	89.4	91.9	90.5	85.1	83.3	83.3	82.0	82.2	81.9	80.8
Mazatlan	77.7	78.3	79.2	82.0	85.1	89.8	91.0	91.2	90.9	90.0	85.1	80.2
Torreon	72.1	77.5	78.8	90.5	95.5	95.7	93.7	92.7	89.2	85.1	79.0	73.0
Cabo San Lucas	77.7	78.6	80.4	84.2	87.3	89.1	91.9	92.7	91.4	89.8	84.9	80.2
Guayamas	75.0	76.3	79.0	83.3	89.4	93.6	95.9	95.7	95.5	90.5	81.9	75.2
Zamora	81.3	84.6	88.9	92.1	93.7	89.8	85.3	85.5	85.5	85.3	84.4	81.5
Reynosa	71.4	76.1	84.4	89.2	93.7	98.1	98.4	97.9	95.0	87.8	80.1	73.4
Cozumel	83.5	84.4	87.6	89.6	90.9	90.3	90.7	91.4	89.4	87.3	85.5	83.5
Acapulco	86.7	86.7	86.7	87.4	88.9	89.4	90.1	90.0	88.9	89.1	88.5	87.6
Villahermosa	82.2	84.6	89.4	93.0	95.2	93.9	93.0	93.2	91.4	88.2	85.6	82.9
Tuxtla Gutierrez	85.6	88.7	93.0	96.1	95.7	91.0	89.6	89.8	88.3	87.3	86.7	85.5
Zihuatanejo	88.7	88.9	88.7	90.1	91.2	90.7	90.7	90.5	89.4	90.3	89.8	89.2
Hermosillo	75.6	78.4	83.7	90.1	97.3	103.6	102.7	100.9	99.5	93.0	83.5	75.2
Culiacan	82.0	84.0	86.9	91.0	94.8	96.6	95.9	94.6	93.9	93.6	88.7	82.8
Colima	88.3	89.4	91.2	93.2	93.9	92.5	90.3	90.3	88.7	89.8	90.3	88.9
Campeche	84.4	87.1	90.9	95.0	96.6	94.8	94.1	93.6	92.1	89.8	87.3	84.9
Salina Cruz	88.0	89.2	90.7	93.4	95.4	93.2	94.1	93.6	92.5	91.6	90.5	88.7
Merida	87.4	88.7	93.2	96.1	97.3	95.5	95.0	94.8	93.6	90.9	88.7	87.1
Apatzingan	90.1	92.8	97.5	102.2	104.0	100.0	94.5	93.4	92.7	93.4	93.2	91.2

[LibertyBell]

Does this present weather data live so we can (for example) track heatwaves and cold waves in live time (or on an hourly basis)?  WMO uses a special five digit code for station identification so it would be useful if this did that too.