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plainclimate is the organization accountable for the methodology, source selection, comfort-score formula, and corrections process behind every page. The data itself is compiled programmatically from NOAA's published climate normals.
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Publisher of NOAA climate normals, place by place
PlainClimate publishes NOAA's 1991-2020 climate normals for U.S. places with a NOAA station that keeps them, naming the station, its distance and its elevation on each page. It is independent, accepts no payment from the places it covers, and takes every figure from a named public file (NOAA, NASA POWER, the USDA 2023 zone listings and the Census Bureau).
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plainclimate is a data-journalism publisher: we compile public datasets, verify them against their official sources, and present them in plain language. Editorial standards, sourcing, and how we handle corrections are described on our about and methodology pages.
Open data: plainclimate-city-normals.csv (NOAA 1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals · public domain).
Every figure on PlainClimate is rendered directly from NOAA 1991-2020 U.S. Climate Normals data, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.