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The Weather Warehouse provides historical weather data from Weather Source, LLC. Users can obtain professional reports quickly and easily from a massive 100 year weather archive. We ask our customers to let us know what they use the information for. Here's a selection of their responses, grouped by area of interest.
Agricultural research
Cattle
Chemical reports
Correlation of weather with production and harvest
Crop growth studies
Crop Insurance
Dairy - Rainfall records for the TNRCC
Crop dusting
Dairy supplies - using the weather data to look at
historical trends with agricultural data
Dust records
Farming operations – to determine possible chemical drift
from spraying
Feedlot consultants
Feedlot records
Forecast for spring planting
Grape vineyard feasibility
Heating requirement
Hog production
Irrigation
Irrigation and rainfall
Livestock health
Nutrient management
Olive grove planning
Ornamental nursery stock
Pesticide application
Poultry farm
Precipitation records
Predicting fruit harvest dates
Production agriculture
Rainfall reports for Department of Health monitoring of
water in feedlots
Ranching
Soy bean seed sales - comparison of crop performance and
daily low temperature.
Weed control business - compare herbicide performance
with rain.
Winter thaw and start of growing season
Authenticity
Autobiographies
Baby books
Creative writing
Current weather for a period novel
Documentary
Fiction
Magazine article
Novels
Obtain information to flesh out conditions on particular
dates.
Screenplay
Travel guides
Boating
Charter boats need weather information
Determining the effect on the environment of security devices in a
maritime environment.
Aerospace
Analyzing customer counts and store revenue
by weather
Architecture
Bakeries – Comparing buying trends with
weather
Basement waterproofing
Boat production
Budgeting projections
Business relocation
Business tracking
Car wash - comparing trends with weather -
number of cars washed withprecipitation
Car washing
Charter Boat Captain
Checking food warehouse temperature
Connecting number of customers who come to a
business based on the weather
Connecting weather to attendance at water
parks, zoos and other attractions
Convenience store chains - Determining the
effect of precipitation and other weather on sales
Daily Temperature comparisons for sales; this
year versus last year
Direct mail campaigns - Weather impact
Dust suppression
Employee attendance
Employment
Explaining slow sales
Food processing
Food sales
Fundraisers
Hotel occupancy in reference to weather
Investigating purchasing a business in the
area
Lawn spraying - noting the weather conditions
on billings
Loss analysis
Motorcycle dealership
Need the weather for general reports
Outdoor restaurant - forecasting sales
Pellet and corn stoves
Pest control
Predicting sales
Product reliability
Recycling
Restaurant - tracking weather to revenue
Restorative drying
Salvage companies - tracking days of non
service use for tow trucks
Selling and buying on the internet
Snowmaking vendor
Statistical correlations between revenue and
temperature
Studies for decision on technology selection
Ticket sales
Travel
Water park attendance in relation to weather
data
Wheel washing
Window cleaning services
Children
School projects
Science fairs
Construction/General
Contractors
Ambient air temperature checks during
concrete curing
Architectural/Construction forensics: determine prior
weather related damages to existing building
Concrete flatwork
Concrete troubleshooting/failure analysis
Construction Defect Experts
Deck and fence business
Design
Documenting work days
Down days/days lost due to extreme heat,
cold, or excessive rain
Electrical contracting
Erosion control prediction
Estimates
Expansion and contraction of hardwood floors
Flood Control Excavation
Landscaping
Painting contractors: number of days work was
lost or had to be repeated due to the rain
Plumbing failure
Proof for extension of contracts
Proof of weather conditions affecting production
Proving rain delays
Roofing
Roofing - wind damage
Scheduling
Sediment control log updates
Septic system analysis
Swimming pool contracts
Updating / verifying project reports
Verify progress reports
Warranty claims
Water leak investigations
Weather logs
Weather related delays
Wind Turbine Erection
Wind’s affect on large crane lifts
Education
Academic criminological research
Academic research
Atmospheric Science college course
Civil Engineering Classes
Climate history education
Data for a regression analysis
Elementary/High school lessons
Historical Research (College Professors)
Meteorology courses
School related assignments and reports
Science Fairs
Senior Projects
Statistics
Statistics course
Term Papers
Thesis research
Energy
Air permit analysis for a electric generating unit
Alternative energy research
Analysis of need for "cooling room"
Building load simulation
Calculate the cost of exhausting air to atmosphere
Calculating wind loads on structures
Cooling tower
Cost forecasting for heating budgets
Degree day routing for propane service
Electric Utilities. Using Rainfall data to help determine Hydraulic
pressure on a coal pile
Electric utility - New technology purchase
Electricity procurement, production
Energy conservation
Energy consumption
Energy engineering calculations
Energy evaluation, management, performance, research, use analysis
Energy utility - comparing energy consumption to temperature
Estimating campus heating boiler load profiles
Facility management - comparing spikes in energy usage to outside
temperatures
Forecasting heating budgets
Gas bill dispute
Heating oil consumption
High rise associations tracking their energy usage for common heating
and cooling
Historical energy consumption of hotel
Home heating fuel oil distribution
Natural gas distribution, system design, price analysis
Oil flow in above ground lines in relation to temperature
Oil production – design and operation
Power plant construction
Power plant cooling tower - performance monitoring, wet bulb
calculations, freeze failure investigation
ROI analysis on energy conservation methods
Solar estimation, planning, energy studies
Steam heating degree day normalization
Temperature analysis/fuel gelling
Temperature hourly bin data
Tracking HDD and CDD for city utility
Weather/Energy use studies
Wind power
Wind turbine site suitability
Civil engineering consulting
Communications
Air quality analysis
Correlation of rainfall data to wastewater treatment plant conditions
Corrugated Packaging - Looking for data to support theory of humidity's
relation to box compression values.
Determine freeze and thaw cycles relating to roadway weight postings
Drainage analyses
Drainage impact to business and structures
Engineering Reports
Environmental consultants
Environmental management
Evaluation of weather effects on structures
Failure analysis
Flood frequency studies
Forensic history
Glass research
remediation
Rain water Harvesting
Recycling of paper & cardboard
Sanitation
Septic field flooding and correlation to when it rains
Sewer system inflow and infiltration investigation - comparing rain
fall for the last year with flows through the pump station
Storm data analysis
Wastewater Treatment Plant - Infiltration and Inflow Sewer Analysis
Wastewater treatment services
Water pumping and treatment facility
Wetland bioretention facility design
Financial
Crop Insurance
Sunshine insurance
Fire Investigation
Logging
Government
Labor Commission
NPDES records
Regulatory compliance
Emergency Water Source Report
Justification for a summer type uniform for motorcycle officers
Heating Ventilation and
Air Conditioning (HVAC)
Air conditioner sizing
Cost/benefit analysis
Document outside air conditions at the time of testing HVAC systems
Estimating annual HVAC energy consumption
Evaluating a new installation on HVAC with heat recovery system
Grocery store refrigeration system
Heat exc
Hydrologic engineering
Land Development
Mass water balance
Mechanical engineering consulting
Projecting product operating life of outdoor power supply
Research
Sizing of industrial equipment based on weather
State storm water pollution prevention plan reporting
Storm water design
Storm water monitoring
Storm water permits
Storm water prevention plans
Storm water treatment
Structural consulting engineer investigating weather related collapse
UNSATH modeling
Water quality
Environmental
Air monitoring
Analyzing potential for rainwater harvesting for building systems
Calculating precipitation runoff from roofs of manufacturing facility
Comparison to groundwater temperature from a well pump test
Determine if weather contributed to the growth of mold in homes
Environmental assessment
Environmental attorneys
Environmental consulting, engineering, health, monitoring, recovery,
remediation, reporting response
Environmental reporting associated with storm water sampling
Environmental restoration, consulting, research
Erosion control reports
Impact of rainfall on streams and wetlands
Lakes management committee; planning treatment budget
Modeling groundwater surface water at environmentally contaminated site
Moldhange calculations for HVAC efficiencies
Heating equipment (boiler) sizing
HVAC equipment capacity related reporting
Ice machines
Industrial refrigeration
Justify air conditioning systems for manufacturing facilities
Load profile calculations
Min-max air temperature for air cooler design
Monitoring operational performance of a buildings humidification system
Trouble shooting
Validating ambient temperature of the day of a service call
Hunting
Determine duck hunting success patterns
Detention basin failure
Drainage basins models / groundwater and surface water supplies
Ground water analysis, remediation, saturation documentation
Hydrological consulting
Pond conditions and relationship to weather
Rainfall and lake elevation studies
Stream gage calibration
Watershed modeling into order to determine safe yields for water supply
Water balance for irrigation disposal of wastewater
Water quality analysis and monitoring
Water Table Studies
Well drilling
Wetland hydrology determination - normal weather patterns
Wetland delineation
Appeals - insurance surcharges on accidents that are weather
related
Auto insurance claims
Automobile accidents
Catastrophe adjusters
Claim verification
Crash scene reconstruction
Determining cause of damage to structures
Fire investigations
Flood insurance
Flood insurance
Forensic meteorology
Fraud Investigations
Hail damage
Independent adjuster
Insurance Adjusters
Insurance investigation
Insurance Investigations
Mudslide claim
Property loss consultants
Rain and wind damage to structures.
Rain damage
Storm damage
To challenge a auto merit rating surcharge
Verify significant precipitation in relation to an insurance claim
Law Enforcement
Child abuse
Cold case homicide
investigation
Legal
Accident reconstruction
Airline delay excuse
Attorney civil and criminal investigations
Car accident litigation
Demonstrate propane usage in court
Disputes regarding completion dates in construction.
Effect of weather on condo for court appointed receivership
Effect on slip and fall cases
Employment claims
Flooding
Force Majeure clause data
Historic rainfall analysis
Legal research
Product Liability
Product liability class action law suit.
Road conditions
Small Claims lawsuits
Traffic court defense
Trial work
Weather conditions for a particular day when a court hearing was
missed* Contract data for home purchase
Weather damage claim disputes
Weather-related water intrusion into a home
Manufacturing
Chemical manufacturing - correlating trends in chemical properties with
ambient temperature
Correlating temperature and humidity affects on manufacturing processes.
Lawn care fertilizers and pesticide/fertilizer combination products
Paint failure investigation
Plastics – storm water sampling
Polyurethane applications - calculation of drying times
Steelmaking
Transmissions
Media
Statistics
Support for news stories
Weather and sports (see NY Times article on home page)
Clinical Research
Forensic Medicine
Heat stress index data regarding work environment
Joint pain and correlation to barometric pressure
Malpractice
Medical-legal consulting
Medical sales
Patient no shows in a Physicians practice versus weather data, to see
if there is a trend
Pharmaceutical products shipments – perishable imports
Psychology
Deciding purchase of flood insurance
Dispute over electric bills
Home heating costs
Insurance claim denials
Personal Interest
1996 Chicago heat wave
Anniversary celebrations
Background for a eulogy
Background for a speech
Bird counts
Bird watching
Birthday presents
Bridal shower
Compare information to personal weather logs
Curiosity
Deciding on wedding dates
Documentary for father's WWII service
Driving records
Family history, family tree research
Father's day gift
Gardening
Genealogy
Health
Hobbyist and enthusiasts
Horse racing
Interest in history
Memory book, scrap book
Model railroading
Outdoor event planning
Personal weather station calibration
Relocation information
Relocation/new home purchase
Scout merit badge information
Social weather club
To settle bets.
Trip planning
Vacation planning
Weather buffs
Wedding Speeches
What it was like when my parents arrived in the U.S.
What the weather was like on birthdays
What was the weather on our wedding?
Animal cruelty (dogs left in cars)
Pharmaceutical
Monitoring of temperature conditions for raw materials used in
pharmaceuticals
Property Management
Analysis of snow removal costs
Condominium maintenance
Hydro Seed
Ice melt for parking lots/sidewalks
Justify snow removal charges
Lawn watering schedules
Mowing
Reconcile ground maintenance records
Site Security Survey
Real
Estate/Land Development
Flood plain/rain research
Home sales
Land clearing
Raw land data for DEQ forms
Search for locations in which to purchase property
Soil erosion planning
Recreation
Country clubs
Golf courses
Ski resorts (weather trends, opening/closing dates)
Climate Studies
Compare temperatures
with the temperatures of radio-tracked cottonmouths
Compare weather data to
crime and disorder activity
Comparing temperatures
with results of bi-weekly soil tests to determine numbers of nematodes
in soil
Economic Research
Frog studies
History - weather on
the day of RFK assassination
Insect ecology -
climatic data used as part of a study of ground beetle behavioral
patterns.
Matching weather with
collected fish sampling data for estuarine analysis
Rainfall trends
School project on the
Dust Bowl
Retail
Garden center
Outerware clothing
Retail Department Stores
Sales-Weather correlation
Snowplowing/Snow
removal
Billing
Customer disputes
Bicycle
races
Home basketball game attendance
Hunting
Outdoor athletic events
Outdoor training safety (heat stress)
Snowmaking feasibility study
Sports organization, looking for precipitation (weather conditions) for
playability on certain dates
Swimming pool usage/staffing levels
Tennis court construction
Walking club
Transportation
Air Medical Transportation - correlating air transport activity to
daily precipitation
Airplane/helicopter crash investigations
Airport Operations
Bridge Operations and Maintenance
Crash consultants
Damaged goods
Frost heave evaluation at international airport runway
Highway drainage project
Rental care damage
Road construction
Routing school busses
Shipping
Shipping simulation data
Snow fall and correlation to towing
State department of transportation road surveys
Storm water runoff from a transportation Yard
Traffic consulting – weather/rainfall impact on traffic
Trucking
Analysis of weapons effects
Art Gallery
Battle analysis on Pearl Harbor
Boy Scouts
Compare temperature data with vehicle performance
Comparing my rainfall log that I keep at home to see how accurate it is
Comparing Wichita population growth to precipitation and cloud cover in
Newton, Kansas
Cross checking (verification) temperature, humidity readings to see
comparison to our readings taken that day by our equipment.
Festival
Fire and Explosion investigations
Fire Cause Analysis - Fire investigators conducting fire origin and
cause investigations for Insurance companies and law firms.
Fire Protection Services
Maritime attorney
Movie
Museum
Prospective Home Purchases
Research on drought conditions
Seismic exploration
Statistical analysis
Temperature tracking
To teach about global warming
Tourism
Tree Failure research
What days it rained
Some interesting
comments:
"I
was visiting Wichita Kansas that weekend and my rental car got flooded
out (along with other cars) in an intersection. I got a bill from the
rental car company after I got home for $ 5,000.00 for a new engine for
the rental car. I am currently trying to get this paid through my
credit card company but need some evidence of the weather that day."
"With
the majority of our jackets being waterproof for hunting, fishing,
riding etc., I want to compare sales per day to outside temperature. I
know I sold more when it was cold, and many less when it was obviously
hot, but want to track it per day."
"We operate a family owned
golf course. Sometimes due to report income in our field of business,
we are audited because there are so many days that no income is being
made due to snow, rain, or even cold temps. These reports help and are
documentation of our income reports."
"We are a food processor.
We are examining the impact a new refrigeration control system had on
our production costs. Weather conditions greatly impact cost for
refrigeration, so we will be using the weather data to normalize our
other data."
"We are trying to find out why an entire driveway
lifted. We want to know how much rain we had during the winter months
due to soil expansion under the concrete."
"We are trying to determine if the summer of 2007 was wetter and cooler
than the summer of 2006 in the NYC area."
"To determine if the winds were strong enough to have a tree fall onto
a parked vehicle."
"I'm
in the plumbing & heating business. When billing a client for a
"no
heat call" this is an excellent way to verify the weather conditions at
the time of service."
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