# Wunderground Weather Data

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wunderground-weather-data/694379>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 30, 2014, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wunderground-weather-data/694379 "2014-07-30T01:04:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jinx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Jinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jinx)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2014, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wunderground-weather-data/694379/1 "2014-07-30T01:04:28Z")

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Stupid question: I was told Underground Weather ([Wunderground.com](http://Wunderground.com)) can tell you the amount of solar energy reaching the ground per square meter (W/m^2) somewhere in all the data presented for any particular city. Maybe it’s staring me right in the face, but I can’t find it. Maybe a SDoper has needed this data before?

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**Author:** ![cookiecuttercc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f4b2a3/32.png) [@cookiecuttercc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cookiecuttercc)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2014, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wunderground-weather-data/694379/2 "2014-07-30T01:10:49Z")

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“somewhere in all the data presented for any particular city”

i looked for this too----as i was curious how much solar energy i could get if i installed some panels.

The solar energy data is only available if that particular weather station has a solar intensity sensor (or whatever it’s formally called).

Unfortunately, wunderground doesn’t have a search filter to find such stations (that i know of)----you’re going to have to click on each station until you find one station that shows the solar radiance data-----it will be located under the wind speed/wind direction data…

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**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2014, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wunderground-weather-data/694379/3 "2014-07-30T01:44:20Z")

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There is a calculator there for how much energy you can generate:  
[http://www.wunderground.com/calculators/solar.html](http://www.wunderground.com/calculators/solar.html)  
It’s based on various (select-able) models.

I didn’t see anything for actual data, however.

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**Author:** ![Jinx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Jinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jinx)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2014, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wunderground-weather-data/694379/4 "2014-07-30T01:56:24Z")

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Thanks, all! And, I’ll be sure to check out the link, Digital is the new Analog posted.