United States Weather Data

This data set contains daily weather (precipitation, max/min Temperature, solar radiation, wind run, and dew point temperature) as well as hourly precipitation for 239 sites in the United States. At most of these sites there is weather data from 1961-1990.

The data for each of these sites is stored in a .zip file. For each year of weather there are three files stored in the .zip file.

*.wth -- are IBSNAT/ICASA formated daily weather files
*.rai -- files contain hourly precipitation and data quality flags
*.err -- contain error/warning messages about data in the *.wth file

For a list of the stations click here

For a program to find the three closest station to a given point click here

For more information about hourly rainfall and data quality flags click here

This weather was derived from the NOAA/NREL Solar and Meteorological Surface Ovservational Network. The raw data can be obtained from the NOAA National Data Centers Online Store

Select Climate Data Products
Specify Data, Solar and click the Continue button
Select Solar and Meteorological Surface Ovservational Network

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