world sites

[Chas Osborn]

Im looking for data from world sites.....temperature averages for different months.
The sites are individual met sites ...I dont want data from the nearest capital city.
Is there a public data base for the world similar to what the Bom maintain?

Chas

[Blair Trewin]

Unfortunately, the WMO normals publications are only available in hard copy as far as I know.

 

The best source I know of for this sort of thing, although it hasn't been updated for a long time, is www.worldclimate.com. Another option is the WMO's weather forecast site (www.worldweather.org) - each of the locations for which a forecast is given also has a link to normals.

 

Blair

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[Chas Osborn]

Thanks Blair

[Laurier Williams]

There is another way to access WMO climatic information which is more laborious but yields more information, and is mostly based on the latest standard 30-year period..

 

1. Go to http://www.ogimet.com/gclimat.phtml.en

2. From the drop down boxes, select a country, select Yes for help, then select December 2011 for the month and year (the reasons for this will become obvious in a moment). Click Go

3. The next screen carries a large amount of data for December 2011 for all Australian stations that provide routine climatic reports to the WMO. Note that section 2 is "Monthly normals." Click on Section 2

4. This takes you down the page to the monthly normals FOR DECEMBER for all the stations. Run your cursor along any row to get the help information - you'll see that there's more information here than on worldclimate.com or the worldweather.org sites, though it's a bit more technical.

5. Now click on any station's name, say Darwin

6. That brings up Darwin's climatic information for the year 2011.

7. Finally click on Section 2 to take you down the page to Darwin's means for every month of the year for the period 1961-1990.

 

While that all sounds complicated, it is quite quick and easy wnen you get the hang of it. Note, however, that not all countries provide section 2.

 

Laurier.

[Blair Trewin]

 

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From: aust...@googlegroups.com [mailto:aust...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Laurier Williams
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Subject: RE: [austpacwx] world sites [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

There is another way to access WMO climatic information which is more laborious but yields more information, and is mostly based on the latest standard 30-year period..

 

1. Go to http://www.ogimet.com/gclimat.phtml.en

2. From the drop down boxes, select a country, select Yes for help, then select December 2011 for the month and year (the reasons for this will become obvious in a moment). Click Go

3. The next screen carries a large amount of data for December 2011 for all Australian stations that provide routine climatic reports to the WMO. Note that section 2 is "Monthly normals." Click on Section 2

4. This takes you down the page to the monthly normals FOR DECEMBER for all the stations. Run your cursor along any row to get the help information - you'll see that there's more information here than on worldclimate.com or the worldweather.org sites, though it's a bit more technical.

5. Now click on any station's name, say Darwin

6. That brings up Darwin's climatic information for the year 2011.

7. Finally click on Section 2 to take you down the page to Darwin's means for every month of the year for the period 1961-1990.

 

While that all sounds complicated, it is quite quick and easy wnen you get the hang of it. Note, however, that not all countries provide section 2.

 

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In fact, not many do, but for those who do the information is more detailed than from other sources.

 

Blair