Online Weather and Climate Resources

The following are free links that include reputable Vermont and national weather and climate information. Most of the links are goverment websites and are listed respectively according to publishing agency.


National Climatic Data Center

NCDC- free access policy (available for *.edu & *.gov)
NCDC - Locating a station & metadata
NCDC- Gateway to free climate data (for non-academic users)
NCDC- Most popular products (use Most Requested "H" for hourly data and "J" for daily data
NCDC- Data on Average Percentage of Possible Sunshine by Month per City
NCDC- Heating and Cooling Degree Data
NCDC- Precipitation Extremes and Record Events
NCDC- Statewide/regional soil moisture status
NCDC - Climate normals
NCDC- Daily station climate normals
NCDC- Snowfall climate normals
NCDC- Monthly Divisional climate normals
NCDC- Monthly station climate normals
NCDC- Monthly precipitation probabilities
NCDC- Annual degree days
NCDC- Climatography of the US
NCDC- Climate of Vermont
NCDC- Miscellaneous documents including historical data sets

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

NOAA- Cooperative Observer Program Information
NOAA- Daily Hydrologic Observations for Northern New York and Vermont
NOAA- Northeast River Forecast Center: Current Water Forecasts and Information
US Water Monitor
NOAA Central Library - U.S. Daily Weather Maps
NOAA- National Centers for Environmental Prediction: All Current Forecasts, Conditions, Model Data, and Historical Data
NOAA Climate Diagnostics Center - US precipitation anomalies
NOAA- Quick Access to NOAA Climate Related Material
NWS homepage
NOAA's NWS RSS Library
NWS - Management Information Retrieval System
NWS - AWIPS GIS Data
NOAA - Health of the Networks

Other agencies

Northeast Regional Climate Center
Applied Climate Information System
Daily Wind Data by state
National Surface Meteorological Networks
USDA- Natural Resource Conservation Service Climate Products (including GIS maps of temperature & precipitation)
University of Washington - Raw daily data
Ski Vermont! Vermont temperature and precipitation averages and records
Vermont Weather Almanac Including Monthly Data


Vermont State Climatologist homepage

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