HTML tables are useful when the data are to be viewed online or printed. The user can also choose how missing values will be displayed in the table when there are no data available for a particular month. Several choices are available. The header includes the station name and state. The ID is the cooperative station number .
Elevation is the height of the station in feet above sea level.
The period of record is the first and last day of available data in the form yyyymmdd, where yyyy is the year, mm is the month and dd is the day. The data record may not necessarily be continuous throughout the entire period. The maximum allowable number of missing days is listed. This will be explained in more detail later. That means that all available data will be used in the analysis.