Does anyone have a good source of per-day rainfall totals for california cities going back 50+ years? I can only find 1 year of totals.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social @davidbaron
26 May 2019
Replying to @aceckhouse
Rain in May isn't that unusual. See ggweather.com/sf/monthly.htm… ... compare May to July!
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Kyle where’d you get these numbers?
Kyle Huey @khuey_
26 May 2019
Replying to @khuey_ @davidbaron @aceckhouse
At SFO average annual rain as of May 1: 12.53", May 15: 12.78", May 31st: 12.97", so not as heavily weighted as I expected.
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I suspect you can get the daily normals data from ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/datato…
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looking for actuals not medians
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Replying to @Hyper_lexic @aceckhouse
Then probably query for the daily summaries data at the same URL, unless you're looking for hourly. (e.g., looks like it has data for SF downtown from 1921-01-01 to 2019-10-15)

Oct 26, 2019 · 7:33 PM UTC

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Replying to @davidbaron @aceckhouse
thanks!
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I'd note that I'm giving these instructions from memory without testing them... because the site in question is tedious enough to use that I wasn't about to go through a round of getting a dataset. But if you want a bunch of historical climate data, NCDC is the way to go...