Dataset Gallery

Radar technology enables weather observers to track rain and snow storms in real time.

Comprehensive records describing 48 different types of severe events, from localized thunderstorms, tornadoes, and flash floods to regional events such as hurricanes, derechos, and winter storms.

Daily maps, charts, and animations show the extent of snow and ice over the contiguous United States, Alaska, or the whole Northern Hemisphere.

The Interactive Data Visualization tool gives users a way to explore the abundance of different gases at more than 200 sampling sites around the world.

Historical records of U.S. temperature and precipitation as graphs, giving you a way to see how they have changed over time.

Global surface temperature anomaly maps, available at the NOAA Climate at a Glance website, based on the 1981-2010 mean.

Access to paleoclimate records extending back thousands or millions of years, including descriptive information and explanatory notes, maps, searches, visualizations, and more.

The Drought Risk Atlas provides historic data about drought for weather stations across the United States that have at least 40 years of records.

Climatologists use historical and current climate and weather data make climate predictions for temperature and precipitation in the future. These outlook products are different from weather forecasts.

Daily GHCN summaries answer questions such as, what were the high and low temperatures at a station on a specific day; how much did it rain last Wednesday; or how much snow was on the ground on a recent date?