I need help finding this information. I’ve tried all kinds of search terms and no site seems to have it. I want the year-to-date and month-to-date precip for Hillsboro OR. Or better yet, for all cities in Oregon. I’ve found pages with the average rainfall but not for how much has fallen this year. Any help?
This should get you there, but you’ll need to pull the months individually.
Look in the “Sum” column of the Precipitation section.
Thanks. But after a bit of exploring, I find that that site doesn’t actually have precip data for Hillsboro. What it gives you is that for Portland. Hillsboro does have its own airport and I assume (but could be wrong) its own weather station. So you’d think there would be precip data specific to Hillsboro out there.
It does, but relies on personal weather stations for that granular detail. You can even pick which personal weather station you want, as there are multiple in the Hillsboro area.
Just click on “Change” next to he station name and you’ll get a map that you can maneuver to pick exactly which station to use.
This one appears to be at the Hillsboro airport, and there are others nearby such as:
- Intel Ronler Acres
- Brookwood
- Jackson School Station
- Mahan
- and many more
I have found Weather Underground to be sometimes unreliable for past weather observations. Even when their figures are right, it is often hard to find the information. I prefer to go straight to the source, the National Weather Service.
Click on this link from the Portland office of the NWS. Then click on the big button that says “Hillsboro, OR” (or enter KHIO–the IATA airport code–in the search box). Click on the tab labeled “Calendar year chart” to find that YTD precip is 15.48 inches. Click on the tab labeled “Current month charts and tables” to find that the MTD precip is 1.49 inches.
Thank @bibliophage . But how in hell did you get to that page? Say I wanted the same page for some other city, how do I get it? The Weather Service website is a real maze and I can’t find the right path.
I don’t remember exactly what I searched on. Not all NWS offices use the same format. I would suggest searching Google for the term cliplot and site:.gov and the three-letter code for the NWS regional office you’re interested in. You can find a list of codes and a map of coverage areas at this Wikipedia page. For example, the code PQR is for the Portland OR office (which pulls up charts for nine cities in northwestern Oregon and one in southwestern Washington) or GYX is for the Portland ME office (which pulls up charts for three cities in Maine and two in New Hampshire).
Not all NWS offices seem to offer such convenient charts, or if they do I can’t find them. For those offices, use the URL https://w2.weather.gov/climate/index.php?wfo=pqr replacing the pqr at the end with the three-letter code of the office you’re interested in. With this method, you may need to go through the records month-by-month.