These are available about 2 months after the month covered. Monthly editions contain station daily maximum and minimum temperatures and precipitation for the major reporting stations. Some stations provide daily snowfall, snow depth, evaporation, and soil temperature data. The July issue also contains monthly heating degree days and snow data for the preceding July through June. The Annual issue contains monthly and annual averages of temperature, precipitation, temperature extremes, freeze data, soil temperatures, evaporation, and a recap of monthly cooling degree days.
Reports contain information on storm paths, deaths, injuries, and property damage.
The December issue includes annual tornado, lightning, flash flood, and tropical cyclone summaries. This dataset, available via the Web, provides monthly averaged maximum, minimum, and mean temperature and total monthly precipitation. An additional data set containing 46 stations for Alaska is also available The period of record varies for each station but generally includes the period 1900-1995. Included with the data set are metadata files that contain station history information about station moves, instrumentation, observing times, and elevation. To find data sources for an individual country, use the Dartmouth Library Catalog.