@article{,
title= {noaa-ncei-climate-normals-annual-monthly-daily-hourly},
journal= {},
author= {US NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information},
year= {},
url= {https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/land-based-station/us-climate-normals},
abstract= {The U.S. Climate Normals are a large suite of data products that provide information about typical climate conditions for thousands of locations across the United States. Normals act both as a ruler to compare today’s weather and tomorrow’s forecast, and as a predictor of conditions in the near future. The official normals are calculated for a uniform 30 year period, and consist of annual/seasonal, monthly, daily, and hourly averages and statistics of temperature, precipitation, and other climatological variables from almost 15,000 U.S. weather stations. 

NCEI generates the official U.S. normals every 10 years in keeping with the needs of our user community and the requirements of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and National Weather Service (NWS). The 1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals are the latest in a series of decadal normals first produced in the 1950s. They were first released in May 2021 (v1.0.0), and the statistics for 23 of the sites were reissued in 2023 (v1.0.1). These data allow travelers to pack the right clothes, farmers to plant the best crop varieties, and utilities to plan for seasonal energy usage. Many other important economic decisions that are made beyond the predictive range of standard weather forecasts are either based on or influenced by climate normals. Monthly gridded climate normals are available for the contiguous U.S., see the Gridded Normals tab for more information.},
keywords= {NOAA, NCEI, climate normals, temperature, precipitation, snowfall},
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license= {},
superseded= {}
}