Rick ...
Weather Underground has been sold and no longer has the same weather stations for all areas. That site used to be the best one for up here, but no longer has the historical data that WU used to have available. The historical data on WU was far more accurate than NOAA.
For some reason the new owners of the site do not have the historical data available. I think they are working on it, but tracking weather info is much harder on the site than it used to be.
For example the Weaverville Airport used to be a reporting station. It is no longer listed on WU with new owners ...
I used to be able to get information about what the expected elevation of the snow fall would be. Living in the mountains, that is important info. So far, I haven't been able to find a new site that gives me that kind of information.
Is your area mountainous? I know that elevation and exposure can have a bigger effect than latitude. But also, for any kind of averaged statistic, each day or year will vary around that average, sometimes with a wide dispersion. But if your lows are USUALLY lower and your highs are USUALLY higher, than the stats are not describing YOUR location.
Yes, I do live in the mountains, but WU used to have more stations reporting at different elevations. Oh, well. I hope they get it together.
