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Expert: - 6/15/2010


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Hi Dave,
I was wondering if you could help me find the weather for an average (recent) year in the U.S. and in Europe.  I'm specifically looking the max/min temps and the sun-load.  The parts of Europe I am interested in are England and everything to the East and south of it (basically, Russia doesn't need to be included).  

I've tried looking on websites, such as weather.com.  They tend not to have the whole year of weather.  It's also difficult to find the average weather for the U.S. as a whole.

I'm trying to figure this out for research on car batteries.  The hotter and sunnier the environment, the shorter the batter lives.  Europe tends to be cooler (on average) and has fewer sunny days, therefore batteries last longer there.   

Any guidance to websites or information you can share would be greatly appreciated.  

Thanks, Katie

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Katie,

Im not sure about websites for Europe. However, here are some to check out for the U.S.

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/ncdc.html

http://www.nrcc.cornell.edu/

http://www.sercc.com/

http://mrcc.isws.illinois.edu/

http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/


I hope this helps!

Sincerely,

Dave Dombek
AccuWeather.com

Accuweather

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A weather enthusiast from an early age, Dave Dombek is now an AccuWeather meteorology expert.

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Dave received his B.S. degree in meteorology from the Pennsylvania State University in May of 1980. Dave joined AccuWeather in July of 1980, beginning in the Snow Warning Service late that fall after his few month period of training. Within a short period of time, Dave got involved in radio broadcasting. He spent over 25 years broadcasting forecasts on radio stations throughout the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast states, and has also done newspaper forecasts and television briefings. Currently, Dave is the lead television briefer for all of AccuWeather's television clients in the northeatern quarter of the nation. In his daily forecasting routine, Dave helps coordinate the forecasts in the northeastern part of the country. He is also the Director of Forecaster Hiring and is in charge of hiring new meteorologists. Finally, Dave is the supervisor of the climatology department at AccuWeather. An avid outdoorsman, Dave enjoys hunting and trout fishing. He also enjoys watching football and is a student of history and current events. If Dave doesn't already have enough on his plate, he is married with two teenage daughters. He also leads a small Messianic congregation in the State College, Pa. area.

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