How to find weather history information for specific locations with
simple weather verbiage i.e. sunny, partly cloudy, cloudy or rain, or
simple statistics i.e. rain days, sunny days or cloud cover
percentage, in a form capable of dowloading into a spreadsheet?

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Request for Question Clarification by pafalafa-ga on 13 Nov 2004 19:44 PST

frank,

The answer to your question varies from place to place, and depends in
good measure on how far back in history you want to go, and how much
detail you're after.

Your best bet here might be to give us an actual location -- and a
description of what you're after, and for what period of time -- and
let us see if we can find it for you.  Whatever answer we come up with
can also serve as a model for how to search for information for other
locations as well.

You might want to have a look at this question to get a bit of a feel
for what's possible:

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=427382
Weather and temperature in Atlantic City New Jersey in April 1901 


Just a suggestion...

pafalafa-ga

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Clarification of Question by frank20042004-ga on 15 Nov 2004 19:39 PST

I have a weather dependent business.  The nearest local NOAA weather
station is Paducah or Ft. Campbell.  I want to track the weather
conditions to the sales.  I have a great deal of sales history of
which I can place in an Excel spreadsheet, either by day, week or
month.  As I said before, maybe I could have a description for the day
as sunny, rainy, 40% clouds, two tenths of rain, etc.

Another use would be for forcasting sales.  If I know that a
particular month or period historically has many sunny days or rainy
days then that could help project sales.  Likewise, if I plan on going
into business in different areas of the country, what can I expect of
the weather there and what effect weather might have on business.

Bottom line I would prefer not to have to type in the information for
everyday.  I can get around Excel easily enough if it's a source I
could import.

Going back over the last fifty to one hundred years would be fine for
trends.  And tracking the day to day over the past couple of years
would be great.  Does every NOAA station put out basically the same
reports?