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Best source for recent weather history?

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Will WB · · Sacramento, CA · Joined Mar 2019 · Points: 237

Does anyone have a source they use for seeing recent weather at a given location? Am I missing an obvious source? Hoping to find a source for true/observed weather from the past week or month rather than, say, historic averages.

El Presidente ZMC · · ABQ · Joined Jan 2019 · Points: 118

Have you checked NOAA? https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/past-weather/

As far as I know, this allows you to look up data for specific days. Though the details are relatively limited. There's probably an API out there for this.

Sparkington TheThird · · Kansas City · Joined Jul 2020 · Points: 5

Here's the link for iweather.net 3 day rain total. It was super helpful for desert climbing. They have loads of other maps and data.

C G · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Jan 2012 · Points: 65

Zoom.earth is an awesome resource for seeing actual satellite images of recent weather activity. I use it to assess snow coverage on the ground during winter months. Has some other functions too.

J E · · Wherever · Joined May 2019 · Points: 377

Noaa for planning, RadarScope for live monitoring 

EJN · · Unknown Hometown · Joined May 2012 · Points: 248

Specifically for desert climbing I used to use iweather.net but they disabled the zoom feature on their map for some reason. Now I use irain.eng.uci.edu/ which is even better.

Desert Rock Sports · · Las Vegas, NV · Joined Aug 2019 · Points: 2

https://www.visualcrossing.com/weather-history
Decent option, but approximate by closest city or major area, not like at GPS coordinates.

iweather.net was the bees knees when the zoom worked.

Guideline #1: Don't be a jerk.

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