# Detailed past weather reports **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 17, 2003, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/detailed-past-weather-reports/161895 "2003-03-17T02:23:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Hirka\_T\_Bawa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/db5fbb/32.png) [@Hirka\_T\_Bawa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hirka_T_Bawa)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2003, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/detailed-past-weather-reports/161895/1 "2003-03-17T02:23:50Z")
I need to find a website that has day by day reports of past weather history for the U.S. If anyone knows of such a website I would greatly apprieciate it. Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2003, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/detailed-past-weather-reports/161895/2 "2003-03-17T02:28:57Z")
[This site](http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/ncdc.html) might be useful. What sort of information were you seeking specifically? And how far back? ---
**Author:** ![BobT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e8cbc/32.png) [@BobT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobT)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2003, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/detailed-past-weather-reports/161895/3 "2003-03-17T02:54:10Z")
I think that the NCDC is going to ask you to pay for a lot of the data. However, their data does come with some nice official government seal of approval. ---
**Author:** ![fiddlesticks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddlesticks/32/18129_2.png) [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2003, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/detailed-past-weather-reports/161895/4 "2003-03-17T04:54:55Z")
[This site](http://www.wunderground.com) has data stretching back to 1994. I doubt you’ll find anything better on the web for free anywhere. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2003, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/detailed-past-weather-reports/161895/5 "2003-03-17T05:02:07Z")
For recent (48 hours) free information, go to the home page of the [National Weather Service/National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration](http://www.nws.noaa.gov/). Click the **Local** hyperlink under **Forecasts** on the left-hand sidebar. (Or simply go to [http://www.srh.noaa.gov/](http://www.srh.noaa.gov/) without bothering to look at the home page.) On the national weather map, click on the desired _city_ that appears on the map. This provides a regional map of the area served by that city’s weather service office. On the regional page, click on the desired city or county. On the right-hand side of that page, below a series of colored bars indicating Humidity, Wind Speed, Barometer, Dewpoint, and Visibility is a hyperlink named **2 Day History**. Clicking on that link provides the Date, Time (est), Wind (mph), Visibility (mi.), Weather Sky Conditions, Temperature (ºF), Pressure, and Precipitation for each of the previous 24 hours (most recent first). (I assume that you can link to one or more of the intermediate pages, but the route I laid out will walk anyone in the states through to their destination.) ---
**Author:** ![Hirka\_T\_Bawa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/db5fbb/32.png) [@Hirka\_T\_Bawa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hirka_T_Bawa)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2003, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/detailed-past-weather-reports/161895/6 "2003-03-18T01:53:29Z")
Thank you, Those were just what we needed.