Can anyone provide me with a link to a site that I can find historical (recent history mostly) records on temperatures for my city (Nashville, TN is very close)? For example, I’d like to know what the low temp was this week last year, or what the low temperature was in 2016, or what the low was last night. I think I found this on weatherunderground once but I can’t seem to find it there now (doesn’t mean it isn’t there!). Other weather history information like rainfall would also be nice, but I’m mostly interested in temperatures. I bet other people here would like this as well, so hopefully any answers here will help more than just me. THank-you.
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On accuweather.com you can view historic temps if you go to month outlook and then change the year and month. It shows the actual temps for each day and averages. Not sure if it includes records though.
For easy access stuff…i use WU…
https://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/KBNA/2015/9/30/DailyHistory.html?MR=1
Just click in the day/month/year… looks like you go back to 1948 on that station
For more info i use
https://climate.usurf.usu.edu/mapGUI/mapGUI.php
With that i dl the .csv files and open them in excel… it’s a lot more work but if you want to know 100 years back what happened on this or that day, it’s probably the best you’re going to do…
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Thanks very much to you both! I almost just sent a PM to @warmwxrules because as our resident weather guy, I knew Rob would have good links. But I thought others might benefit from having this in the public record. THanks!
Yeah…if you (or anyone) need any info…just ask. I can usually dig it up if it’s out there.
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@warmwxrules, are you a meteorologist, or play one on tv? Your weather knowledge and charts and stuff is impressive.
When I was a kid in Oklahoma, I wanted to be a weatherman, got a few books on it, including a pamplet on tornadoes from the NWS. Living in the middle of tornado alley really piqued my interest then.
When I moved to Texas, I would occasionally chase storms, and take pics of them if possible. It’s a quite awesome sight to see those towering thunderstorms with lightning flickering about them. Makes a person feel really small. But, I have never actually seen one after all these years.
Totally pretend…although what a career choice…you can totally blow forecasts and keep your job!
No… just has always interested me. I started watching Joe Bastardi videos back in the early 2000s when he was with Accuwx and i just got hooked. I never knew much about weather models prior to that. Now all this information (models, satellites, webcams, radar) is available to anyone at anytime. It’s crazy. With Goes 16 (the newest weather satellite) it’s going to get even better (imagery/forecasting).
I like winter/spring for weather…summer gets boring…late summer very boring…at that point it’s just watching for that first hint of fall.
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I’m with you bob. I’ve always loved storms. That feeling you get right before a big storm is just incredible. I don’t know if it is the increased ozone in the air, the change in barometric pressure, the electrical activity, humidity, etc, but I just love being outside right when a big storm moves in and before the rain starts. I’ve also always wanted to see a tornado. I feel a little bad/disrespectful saying that I WANT something that has caused so much pain and ruin for so many people, and I suspect many people who have lived through tornadoes would say I should never want to see one. I certainly would not wish for anyone to have to go through a tornado, but if it has to happen I’d sure love to see one. And I’m pretty sure that I’d be the idiot who would wind up with a 2 x 4 sticking through my shoulder because I didn’t have the good sense to take shelter when I should. Just a few years ago I was in Hollywood Florida during a hurricane. I was in a small hotel on the beach and made a deal with the owner that if I’d help her shudder the windows she would let me stay even though there was a mandatory evacuation. I will never forget standing on the beach with wind so strong I could lean into it as if it were a sold wall. I could jump straight up and land 3 feet away due to wind blowing me (and I’m not light! ha). It was one the most amazing experiences of my life-dumb as it was.
Sorry to go off topic but its weather related, and you did it first. haha. 
I have seen one of those little rope tornadoes, even those are pretty impressive. That F5 that hit Joplin a few years ago, now that was a monster. I went out in the yard and could see the storm about 25 miles away. The sound it made was like thunder that never stopped. It gave me cold chills, I tell you if I hadn’t been watching the radar and known it wasn’t headed toward me I would have got in my car and left. It just gave you the feeling that it was destroying everything it went over and it pretty much did. Still gives me the willies thinking about it. Scary stuff.
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Yea, Rob is the weather guy. I’d trade most of the high priced news weather guys here for Rob’s practical analysis. It’s obviously not an exact science, but Rob shows enough reality of the possibilities to make decent decisions.
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Well, weather forecasters may get away with being wrong half the time, but baseball players are considered being pretty good by getting a hit only 3 out of 10 times!
I kinda miss the days of living in OK and TX
, where you could get out there and see those storms blow up from something as simple as wind, heat and moisture, and form into formidable storms. Like Kevin, I don’t wish any harm on folks, but it is kind of a rush to experience them. From a distance. I have been caught in a couple at night, and it was quite a “puckering” situation.
I have a pic of a T storm that brewed up while we were in Wyoming on vacation, it was impressive. I’ll see if I can find it and post it on here along with some others.
I’ve told my son…all he has to do is throw it 80 to 90mph with some control (he’s left handed) and he can be a late inning guy.//…or heck…if he can have a change up like Trevor Hoffman…a couple of 60mph meatballs over the plate will do.
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A storm of that magnitude is like a wedge cloud on the ground. Just wipes houses clean off their foundations. If you don’t have a reinforced safe room in your home, there is no where to go but leave the premises, and fast.
I can’t imagine how folks in Moore, OK feel. Two F5’s in about 15 years, might want to consider another place to live. Must be like a big bullseye painted on that town.
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That tornado moved the Joplin hospital on its foundation and it had to be torn down. I tell you the size and sound of that storm is something I will never forget. I like to watch storms build a feel the wind blow off them but that was different. I don’t get too upset about storms. We were eating supper here in town a few years ago and the set the sirens off. People started running out and leaving in there cars. My wife was upset, I told her it would be ok and just kept eating my pizza. We had a good veiw of the west sky so I felt OK. The place was empty shortly and the manager comes over to our table and says " you do know we are having a tornado don’t you?" I told him yes and if I see one out that window we were all going to get in his walk in cooler. It went south of town a couple of miles so every thing was fine.
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Is he a player now? What grade is he in?
Probably toughest position in baseball is the set-up or closing pitcher. No room for error there!
Trevor was something of an anomaly for a closer, most of those guys just threw gas, but he was a master baffler.
Must have been a heck of a pizza!
My wife is mortified of any storms, she’s is quite bewildered of my interest in them. Where we live now, tornadoes are rare, but we do seem to get quite a few hailstorms.
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It was pretty good pizza, lol. I figured it was a lot safer ten feet from the walk in freezer than in a car. My wife and kids got in the freezer with the waitress girls. But in a few minutes it had passed.
9… just some kids stuff…
Being a closer would be tough stuff. Too much stress. I could probably handle being a mascot.
Jinxed myself, they just set the sirens off. I think its north of here.
