# Is there anywhere on-line I can find weather history for specific places and specific dates?

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**Created:** [August 23, 2009, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anywhere-on-line-i-can-find-weather-history-for-specific-places-and-specific-dates/507369 "2009-08-23T04:10:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2009, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anywhere-on-line-i-can-find-weather-history-for-specific-places-and-specific-dates/507369/1 "2009-08-23T04:10:47Z")

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Suppose I want to know what the weather was like in Pensacola on November 24th, 2007, or in Dallas on March 3rd 1996. Is there anywhere online I can find such information? I checked the National Weather Service site, but I can’t find it. Perhaps I’m looking in the wrong area or maybe there’s somewhere better?

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**Author:** ![Bootis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e8c25b/32.png) [@Bootis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bootis)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2009, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anywhere-on-line-i-can-find-weather-history-for-specific-places-and-specific-dates/507369/2 "2009-08-23T04:56:46Z")

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One way you could find out is search for several different newspaper archives for those dates and look at the weather section

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**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2009, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anywhere-on-line-i-can-find-weather-history-for-specific-places-and-specific-dates/507369/3 "2009-08-23T05:28:42Z")

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For Canada you can get hourly weather from the past for towns and cities [here](http://climate.weatheroffice.ec.gc.ca/Welcome_e.html).

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**Author:** ![Alienhand](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8edcca/32.png) [@Alienhand](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alienhand)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2009, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anywhere-on-line-i-can-find-weather-history-for-specific-places-and-specific-dates/507369/4 "2009-08-23T07:09:36Z")

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[Weather Underground](http://www.wunderground.com/history/) has some good records that go back to the 50s. It is really hit and miss for how much data the query returns, so [here is an example](http://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/KBDR/1949/7/5/DailyHistory.html?req_city=NA&req_state=NA&req_statename=NA) of what you should see.

The official observation records are keep by the [National Climatic Data Center](http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/ncdc.html) but their website is, umm, less than optimal.

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**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2009, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anywhere-on-line-i-can-find-weather-history-for-specific-places-and-specific-dates/507369/5 "2009-08-23T21:30:09Z")

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> [@Alienhand](#):
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> [Weather Underground](http://www.wunderground.com/history/) has some good records that go back to the 50s.

That served my purpose. Thanks.

And thanks to everyone who replied.🙂