New Monthly Temperature & Precipitation Tool Available

The SCIPP team is proud to announce the launch of another new experimental product available through our website - the Average Monthly Temperature and Precipitation Tool. This climate information tool provides monthly averaged temperature and precipitation conditions and is available for the 48 contiguous states. Data are available for the most recently completed month and date as far back as 1895.

To access the tool, please visit our data products section (available here). To use the tool all you have to do is choose the state and climate division of interest (region within a state) followed by the year. The tool charts monthly precipitation and temperature values as averaged across a climate division and shows how conditions compared to the 30-year average (1971-2000). The charting interface is dynamic and supports several functions including: clicking layers of information on and off in the legend, labeling chart values when moving the cursor over the chart, and zooming in on a portion of the chart by drawing a box over it (click and drag to draw a box).

This is an experimental product, so we encourage you to try it out and let us know what you think. Additional experimental products are in development and will be added to this section, so continue to check back. Otherwise, if you have a request for a new product, please contact us at scipp@mesonet.org with more information.

Our SCIPP partners at the Southern Regional Climate Center (namely David Sathiaraj) were instrumental in the development of this tool and deserve the credit for the materialization of this effort!