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Hello,
I am trying to find some information on historical weather data for Southern California for the last week of September, and the first two weeks of October. Where would a commoner such as myself find such data? I realize that this is nothing more than historical data, but I am planning a trip to Disneyland in this time frame and would like to shoot for the mostly likely dry time.
Thanks for your help.
Eric P.
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Great question and we get this one all the time when people are planning a trip. The data is available, you just have to dig to find it!
First, there's a link here on the right for Usa Today and for the list of cities and just some typical climate data, like average precipitation for a given month. You can find the city you are visiting and click on it.
But, it sounds like you want something more detailed. For this, we go elsewhere. By visiting the website of the NWS in Los Angeles we can find very detailed climate information that is completely free.
When you get to the page, you can select Downtown and on the new page you'll need to go to two sections. Close to the top there's a section called "Rainfall Calendar Year". This will have the average rainfall amounts for each month. Going down the page to the "Normal and Average Daily Temperature and Rainfall" and this actually has the average high and lows for each day of the month so you can see if the temperature range is in the ballpark of your preference.
Again, these are just climate records, not a forecast of what will happen but will give you a good idea of what is statistically average in LA for the months you're looking at.
Answered by KSL Meteorologist Dina Freedman.
