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Where can I find record high and low temperatures for each date of the year for my city?

My newspaper has a weather almanac that, for example, says that the high temperature on Feb 13 was 55 degrees F in 1995, and the record low on this date was -10 in 1942. So how do I get that kind of data for a whole year? If global warming is real, should not I see more record highs occurring in more recent years, and record lows occurring in more distant years?

Update:

OK, let's use my city as an example: Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. I was just being shy.

Did I sound like a climate denier? Ooops. I am actually convinced (98%) that the globe is warming and we the people did it. I just wanted to find an easy way for me and others to examine the historical weather data in our home towns.

Thanks for all your comments.

Update 2:

Good links to real data! Digging into it now.

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  • 9 years ago
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    If you're in the US, then you could get that information from your local national weather service office. You could also get data from the National Climate Data Center (NCDC) that would allow you to figure that out, but it might be more trouble to do that than it is worth. You can find out which office is responsible for your area by checking this list:

    http://www.nws.noaa.gov/organization.php

    Each office should have a page Climate/Local that may contain that information--the data they put on the page varies from site-to-site. If you can't find it on their web page, there should be another link on the website "Contact Info". Send them an email or call them directly and ask nicely for the information, and they should get it to you. It may take a few days, especially if it's a busy weather time for them. But don't be shy about asking--your tax dollars are paying their salaries!

    I think similar information is available in other countries. In Canada you would contact Environment Canada, in the UK contact the Met Office, and in Australia contact the Bureau of Meteorology.

    EDIT: Since you're in Salt Lake City, here is a plot of the data you want that I found on the NWS Salt Lake City site:

    http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/cgi-bin/cliMAIN.pl?utsalt

    Unfortunately I can only find it as a graph and not in tabular format. The source is the Western Regional Climate Center (WRCC) and Desert Research Institute (DRI), but I could not find the data that went into the graph on those sites. Call or email the NWS Salt Lake City and ask for the data. (If you're really shy I'll do it for you, lol)

  • kuka
    Lv 4
    4 years ago

    Record Low Temperatures By City

  • 5 years ago

    Record High Temperatures By City

  • 6 years ago

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    Where can I find record high and low temperatures for each date of the year for my city?

    My newspaper has a weather almanac that, for example, says that the high temperature on Feb 13 was 55 degrees F in 1995, and the record low on this date was -10 in 1942. So how do I get that kind of data for a whole year? If global warming is real, should not I see more record highs occurring in...

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  • 5 years ago

    Richie, do you have a clue what you are talking about? What satellite data are you talking about that shows cooling? Seriously, cite it. I have to call you out because you are perhaps misleading some people with totally wrong information. Roy Spencer is the guy who publishes the regular satellite and weather balloon data. The data is available on his cite. The asker is quoting from the horses mouth. Either you should cite your information or stop posting because you do not understand. Re Roy Spencer, he never has been a skeptic of AGW. He get lumped in, and quoted by deniers because he believes warming will be much slower than the IPCC predictions. He believes clouds will be a significant negative feedback -- but he has long believed that man is causing warming. It will be interesting to see whether he changes his views on the IPCC predictions now that his own data is showing record heat. Records this year have been long predicted, based on the El Nino pattern. Average temperature was not previously as high a 1998 because of the strong El Nino then. Temperatures will sometime drop below 2010 due to ocean currents, which is why it is important to look at the ongoing trend rather than isolating any single year.

  • 7 years ago

    Max, min and mean temps for Vancouver over the last 25 years:

    http://vancouver.weatherstats.ca/charts/temperatur...

    Not a heck of a lot of climate change going on here. I guess we must be the exception to the rule, or the exception that tests the rule.

  • 9 years ago

    The intentional failure to mention what city would seem to indicate, a by the numbers denier shill question, how the temperature averages vary for one city is not the point, it is global warming and the data for that is clear, the planet is warming.

    http://climate.nasa.gov/keyIndicators/#globalTemp

    Deniers seem to like these question that leave out important details, they used a similar one in referencing some animals in a Mexican zoo that froze to death, inferring "it's Mexico, it's tropical, that proves AGW is phony" of course they failed to mention that the zoo in question is at an altitude similar to Denver or that the location of the zoo is cold enough that the animals need electric heating to keep them warm and in fact it was an electrical failure and this heating system stopping that lead to the animals deaths, now why would deniers leave these details out. They tried another not that long ago over a town in Italy where it snowed and according to the denier that was rare, again coy to mention the name of the town, when he did it was easy to find that the town in question was in fact a ski resort town in the Italian Alps. This is the way deniers carry on and they have the cheek to call us liars.

  • 9 years ago

    Your own city might only have data for several years, depending on how long the local weather outpost is. Wunderground has some good data though.

  • bubba
    Lv 6
    9 years ago

    This link will get you to daily norms at the NCDC. This does not necessarily give you the extremes, but you can apply the same technique to the means that you can to the extremes. If you download the data for at least 30 years you can put it in a database and find the daily extremes. Another link gives monthly extremes. You may also apply your analysis to that data set also. Evaluating means and extremes may give you more insight into what is happening.

    http://gis.ncdc.noaa.gov/map/cdo/?thm=themeDaily Daily data

    http://gis.ncdc.noaa.gov/map/ncs/?thm=themeExtreme... Monthly extremes

  • ?
    Lv 6
    9 years ago

    1) It would help if you'd state which country and city you live in.

    2) Global Warming does not mean that there will be more record highs occurring in more recent years wherever you just happen to live. Global Warming describes the cause; Climate Change describes the effects.

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