# Historical weather radar

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/historical-weather-radar/454628>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 29, 2008, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/historical-weather-radar/454628 "2008-06-29T04:47:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2008, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/historical-weather-radar/454628/1 "2008-06-29T04:47:16Z")

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Surely there must be a site where I can look at weather radar for the previous day or so. I was away from my computer when a big storm hit today, and I’d kinda like to look at the radar for that period.

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**Author:** ![Viscera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/258eb7/32.png) [@Viscera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Viscera)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2008, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/historical-weather-radar/454628/2 "2008-06-29T07:28:42Z")

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The only one I know of is here:

[http://www.rap.ucar.edu/weather/radar/](http://www.rap.ucar.edu/weather/radar/)

You can go back a few days, but there are some data outages occasionally. Also, I’m not sure if it’s me, but every computer I’ve ever tried it on, using IE or Firefox, won’t let me load more than 3 or 4 hours worth (javascript issues I think).

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**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2008, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/historical-weather-radar/454628/3 "2008-06-29T22:15:31Z")

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For your location (last item in rightmost column):

[http://www.wunderground.com/radar/radblast.asp?ID=CLE](http://www.wunderground.com/radar/radblast.asp?ID=CLE)

For many more options (but much more involved to work with and more demanding of your computer):

[http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/radar/jnx/index.php](http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/radar/jnx/index.php)