Accurate Historical Weather

Purl

Purl

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As we saw this weekend there were a few pop up isolated downpours. I looked through my apps and did a half assed googling to find something that would accurately tell me what happened in the past few days of weather.

What does everyone use for that beta?
 
weather underground lets you see historical data, but its on a per-station basis not a broad overview (i.e. you can select a station and view the history (rainfall/temp/wind ect) that it recorded) for that specific device.

it works well if there is a weather station in the area you are interested in.
 
I ask cause the one I used yesterday showed no storm came through by CR since Thursday, but I went over to Cromwell for the first time and by the time it was too late, it was hard to believe Thursday was the last precipitation.
 
shrpshtr325 said:
weather underground lets you see historical data, but its on a per-station basis not a broad overview (i.e. you can select a station and view the history (rainfall/temp/wind ect) that it recorded) for that specific device.

it works well if there is a weather station in the area you are interested in.
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The problem is most of the places use airports for the history reporting. Hartshorne uses JFK, Allaire uses EWR. CR uses Trenton Mercer county airport. Not sure how that helps at all.
 
USGS stream gauges (most have a rain gauge too) are a good source for rainfall amount. This is Bound Brook:

Bound Brook USGS heated rain gage NJ

Discover water data collected at monitoring location USGS-403338074325301, located in Somerset County, New Jersey and find additional nearby monitoring locations.
waterdata.usgs.gov waterdata.usgs.gov

You can see a map here:

There's also this, I have not looked into the source data though
 
Bike N Gear said:
The problem is most of the places use airports for the history reporting. Hartshorne uses JFK, Allaire uses EWR. CR uses Trenton Mercer county airport. Not sure how that helps at all.
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you can manually select a local (private) weather station if there is one in the area. (my weather station is on there, i can confirm that the data matches, its just not local to any parks to be useful)
 
Purl said:
I ask cause the one I used yesterday showed no storm came through by CR since Thursday, but I went over to Cromwell for the first time and by the time it was too late, it was hard to believe Thursday was the last precipitation.
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If you're looking for recent rainfall this has been my go to:

www.iweathernet.com

Rainfall totals for the last 24 hours to 3 days - high resolution map – iWeatherNet

Radar-estimated precipitation accumulation for the past 24 hours to 3 days. High resolution and interactive rainfall data on Google Maps.
www.iweathernet.com

Has been quite accurate in my use.
 
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