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

• Vermont station metadata (length of record, elevation)
• NCDC free access policy (available from *.edu & *.gov IP addresses)
• Locating a station & metadata
• Gateway to free climate data
• Most popular products (use link "I" for daily data for an individual station/county)
• Hourly precipitation data
• Data on Average Percentage of Possible Sunshine by Month per City
• Heating and Cooling Degree Data
• Precipitation Extremes and Record Events
• Statewide/regional soil moisture status
• Climate normals
• Daily station climate normals
• Snowfall climate normals
• Monthly Divisional climate normals
• Monthly station climate normals
• Monthly precipitation probabilities
• Annual degree days
• Climatography of the US
• Climate of Vermont
• Miscellaneous documents including historical data sets
  
• Climate at a Glance
  
• Climate Monitoring
  
• New extreme temperature & precipitation records
  

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

• Cooperative Observer Program Information
• Daily Hydrologic Observations for Northern New York and Vermont
• Northeast River Forecast Center: Current Water Forecasts and Information
• NOAA Central Library - U.S. Daily Weather Maps
• National Centers for Environmental Prediction: All Current Forecasts, Conditions, Model Data, and Historical Data
• Climate Diagnostics Center - US precipitation anomalies
• NOAA Eastern Region Climate Outreach Toolkit
• NOAA - Health of the Networks
• Recent Snowfall and Snow Depth Maps
  

National Weather Service

• NWS homepage
• NWS - Management Information Retrieval System
• NWS - AWIPS GIS Data

Other agencies

• Northeast Regional Climate Center
• Applied Climate Information System
• National Surface Meteorological Networks - Vermont
• USDA- Natural Resource Conservation Service Climate Products
• University of Washington - Raw daily data
• Canadian Weather Radio
• Ski Vermont!
• Vermont temperature and precipitation averages and records
• Vermont Road Weather Conditions