This publication contains monthly mean temperature, pressure, precipitaion, vapor pressure, and sunshine for approximately 2,000 surface data collection stations worldwide and monthly mean upper air temperatures, dew point depressions, and wind velocities for approximately 500 observing sits. This publications contains a chronological listing, by states of occurences of storms and unusual weather phenomena.
Reports contain information on storm paths, deaths, injuries, and property damage.
The December issue includes annual tornado, lightning, flash flood, and torpical cyclone summaries. This publication summarizes temperature, relative humidity, precipitation, cloudiness, wind speed and direction observations for several hundred cities in the U.S. and its territories. Most monthly publications also contain the three hourly weather observations for that month and an hourly summary of precipitation. The National Wetlands Inventory project was established to generate information about the characteristics, extent and status of the Nation's wetlands and deepwater habitats. This database is available over the Internet.