There is an enormous amount of observational and forecast data available.
I always find it hard to find. Web interfaces are always changing. Some services let you customize plots. Others do not. Sometimes I find data, but can’t figure out how to navigate there reliably.
General Data Plots
This is my cheat sheet on find observations, forecasts, and data.
US National Climate Assessment (Interactive Atlas)
The Trump Administration has removed the National Climate Assessment from the USGCRP website. Here is my personal archive.
NASA GISS Temperature Data
ECMWF (for forecasts)
Got to the ones below by google search of “temperature anomaly forecast”
Great Lakes, Michigan, GLISA, GLERL, Canada
GLISA: Resources and Tools
GLISA: Climate Divisions, Stations, Great Lakes (Descriptions and Trends)
GLISA: Climate Impact Summaries
GLISA: Sustained Assessments
GLISA: Retrospectives and Prospectives
GLERL Great Lakes Observations
- Great Lakes Water Level Dashboard
- Great Lakes Monthly Hydrologic Data
- Lake Surface Temperature (+ ice cover percent)
- Ice Products
Climate Data for a Resilient Canada
Graphics and Services
Iowa Environmental Mesonet (Very good plotting routines. Autoplot ###, where ### is different parameters.)
nullschool.net (where wind videos come from)
Temperature: Show Your Stripes
NASA MERRA
Climate Prediction Center: Official 6 – 10 day outlooks
Climate Prediction Center: Official 8 – 14 day outlooks
North American Ensemble Forecast
Danish Meteorological Institute (KNMI)
Weather Data
- Plymouth State University Weather Center
- College of DuPage NeXr Generation Weather Lab
- Weather Prediction Center: Probabilistic Precipitation Portal
Carbon Dioxide and Greenhouse Gases
Climate Data
USA National Phenology Network
Drought data for 2000 years (tree rings)
Data Analysis for the Formally Able
Calculating the Mean and Standard Deviation with Excel
How to download whole websites
https://www.howtogeek.com/how-to-copy-a-whole-website-to-your-computer-using-wget/
https://superuser.com/questions/1415717/how-to-download-an-entire-site-with-wget-including-its-images
https://superuser.com/questions/1672776/download-whole-website-wget?rq=1
https://web.archive.org/web/20250722173635/https://toolkit.climate.gov/