Historical Climate Data Retrieval

Interactively Retrieve Climate Data

• Retrieve Daily or Monthly Temperature, Precipitation, Snow Data by Target Location
• Retrieve Annual Summaries of Monthly Precipitation Data by County
• Browse Daily or Monthly Precipitation Data by Individual Observer
• Retrieve a Mapable Precipitation Data Set for One or More Days
• Retrieve Mulitiple Precipitation Reports for a Single Day
• Wetland Delineation Monthly Precipitation Data Retrieval from Gridded Database
• Historical Radar-based Precipitation Estimates (National Weather Service)

• Retrieve and Map Hourly Surface Weather Observations
• Retrieve Hourly Surface Weather Observations as Time Series (South Dakota State University)
• Divisional Climate Data Time Series (Western Regional Climate Center)
• Current and Past Surface Weather Conditions From Various Monitoring Networks (University of Utah)

Storm Events

• Historical Storm Report Data (Storm Prediction Center)
• Storm Event Database (National Climatic Data Center)
• Storm Data Publication Excerpt for Central and South Central Minnesota
  (National Weather Service Forecast Office - Chanhassen)
• Past Weather Radar Imagery
    - Low Resolution (National Climatic Data Center)
    - High Resolution (National Climatic Data Center, requires free image viewer)
• Minnesota Flash Floods 1970-2006

Obtaining Historical Climate Data for Legal Purposes

• Overview
• Midwest Regional Climate Center
• National Climatic Data Center
    - Certification
    - Local Climatological Data Publication
    - Climatological Data Publication
    - Hourly Precipitation Data Publication
    - Storm Data Publication
    - Unedited Local Climatological Data for Larger Cities (includes hourly data)
    - Preliminary Record of Climatological Observations

Return to Minnesota Climatology Working Group Main Page

URL: http://climate.umn.edu/doc/historical.htm
Last modified: August 5, 2008