AWS Convergence Technologies, INC

Can I get archived data from AWS?

Thank You for your recent inquiry about the availability of historical weather records from Automated Weather Source. We regret that the volume of requests prohibits us from being able to directly supply you with the data that you had requested. However, there are a number of ways to get the weather data that you need.

First of all, Automated Weather Source has a very large network of surface weather observing systems across North America. If you are a school or other non-profit organization, you can purchase a single-user version of our educational software. This software is available for both PCs and Macs. This program allows you to access current and historical data from the Automated Weather Source network of weather observing systems, and produces graphs, maps, and tables of the data collected. For further details, please contact our sales department at 1-800-544-4429, or info@aws.com.

If you are a commercial business, we do sell the data from these systems on a case-by-case basis, with the minimum charge being $200.00. It is also possible to purchase our software with a commercial data license.

Secondly, there are a wide variety of other weather data sources available -- some of them for free. Most of this historical weather data is from government weather observation sites, which are typically found at major airports and military installations.

If you are interested in current historical data, it is much easier to access the data day by day as it happens. This because there are many places to find the daily climatic summaries, but we are not aware of any locations that archive these daily summaries. If you have Internet access, these climate reports can be found at: http://iwin.nws.noaa.gov/iwin/XX/climate.html -- where XX is the 2 letter ID for the state you want. For example, Kentucky climate data is at: http://iwin.nws.noaa.gov/iwin/ky/climate.html Another Internet resource is: http://www-atm.ucdavis.edu/~wxauto/fos/, then choose the state you are interested in, and then choose either the "Climatology Report" (CSUS2) or the "State Temp and Precip Table" (ABUS21). If you do not have access to the Internet, another excellent source of weather data is the weather page in the newspaper for larger cities, which often reprint this type of information. Your local library may be able to help with that, and they may also have past issues of the newspapers so you could get past data.

If you are interested in older historical data that occurred more than a month or two in the past, a good source of historical data is the National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, NC. They have an interactive climatic data page on the Internet at: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/onlineprod/drought/
xmgr.html and then choose one of the "time series", and it will produce a graph of the data, and then give you the option to see and download the raw numerical data. Other good sources for past history are the Regional Climatic Data Centers, and then the State Climatologist. A complete list of these regional and state resources can be found at: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/stateclimatologists
.html#StC

Finally, if you are interested mainly in monthly climatic averages from both the United States and internationally, a good Internet site that contains much of this type of information is at: http://www.nws.mbay.net/climate.html

If you are interested in more general types of weather information, we have recently been made aware of an index of all weather sites at: http://cirrus.sprl.umich.edu/wxnet/servers.html

updated June, 1998