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Data Accuracy and Verification

PlainClimate aggregates and presents NOAA U.S. Climate Normals (1991-2020) and related federal weather-station data. While we take reasonable steps to ingest, normalize, and refresh this data on each NOAA release, upstream figures may contain revisions, station discontinuities, or gaps for a given period. You are solely responsible for verifying any climate figure that influences a relocation, travel, agricultural, or similarly consequential decision. Cross-reference the official NOAA source before acting on anything you read here.

Acceptable Use

You may browse, read, and share PlainClimate content for personal, journalistic, academic, and non-commercial research use. You may cite specific city or state figures with attribution and a link back to the page on plainclimate.com. You may not (a) systematically scrape, crawl, or download the dataset in bulk without prior written permission; (b) resell, sublicense, or redistribute derived data products that compete with PlainClimate; (c) use our pages to misrepresent a city's climate in a way intended to mislead; (d) remove, obscure, or mislabel source attribution; or (e) attempt to bypass rate limits, security controls, or authentication mechanisms.

Editorial Pipeline and Methodology

PlainClimate combines raw NOAA data with plain-language summaries, explainers, and comparisons. Narrative sections are drafted, reviewed, and edited by our editorial team before publication. Numbers and tables are loaded directly from NOAA's published normals and never altered by editorial. If you spot a summary that misreads the data, please email the correction link on our contact page.

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The underlying NOAA climate data surfaced on PlainClimate is in the public domain, you are free to use those raw facts. However, our site design, layout, navigation structure, original editorial copy, category taxonomies, comparison tables, and curated rankings are the copyrighted work of PlainClimate. These creative elements may not be reproduced in whole or substantial part without permission.

Changes to These Terms

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Governing Law and Disputes

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