# Is there a website to see historical temperatures on a daily basis for a city?

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**Created:** [February 5, 2014, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-website-to-see-historical-temperatures-on-a-daily-basis-for-a-city/680562 "2014-02-05T08:05:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![Quintas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/48db29/32.png) [@Quintas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quintas)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2014, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-website-to-see-historical-temperatures-on-a-daily-basis-for-a-city/680562/1 "2014-02-05T08:05:07Z")

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I just watched a documentary about the Space Shuttle Challenger accident in 1986. I was curious how many days it was after the accident before it got above freezing and they could have had a safe launch had they postponed.

With my search terms I can find record extremes for a location, but not a daily temperature chart. Anyone got a link?

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**Post date:** [February 5, 2014, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-website-to-see-historical-temperatures-on-a-daily-basis-for-a-city/680562/2 "2014-02-05T08:15:44Z")

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From the first Google result:

> **[Local Weather Forecast, News and Conditions | Weather Underground](https://www.wunderground.com/?cm_ven=cgi)**
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> Weather Underground provides local & long-range weather forecasts, weather reports, maps & tropical weather conditions for locations worldwide

According to that, the very next day would’ve been 12+ degrees warmer.

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**Author:** ![Quintas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/48db29/32.png) [@Quintas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quintas)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2014, 8:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-website-to-see-historical-temperatures-on-a-daily-basis-for-a-city/680562/3 "2014-02-05T08:22:58Z")

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Thanks.

What search term did you use BTW? I’m usually good at this but none of my terms returned what I needed.

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**Post date:** [February 5, 2014, 8:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-website-to-see-historical-temperatures-on-a-daily-basis-for-a-city/680562/4 "2014-02-05T08:33:05Z")

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I just searched for “historical temperature” and the [first link was to wunderground.com](https://www.dropbox.com/s/psh8ry5zaea9vst/historical%20temperature%20%20%20Google%20Search.png).

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**Post date:** [February 5, 2014, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-website-to-see-historical-temperatures-on-a-daily-basis-for-a-city/680562/5 "2014-02-05T13:24:59Z")

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Go to [http://classic.wunderground.com/](http://classic.wunderground.com/), search for any city.

Scroll down the page to “History and Almanac”, and click [View] after “Detailed History and Climate”. When that page opens, choose any date, or choose Weekly or Monthly charts.