How to Find Historical Weather Records for a Specific Place on Extreme Weather Watch

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Extreme Weather Watch organizes its historical weather records by region, so the fastest way to reach a specific place is to pick the matching region type from the homepage and drill into that location. The site covers U.S. states and territories, Canadian provinces and territories, Australian states and territories, and a set of other countries. If your target place falls outside those lists, the site does not appear to offer a page for it.

What the site actually covers

The homepage groups record pages into four geographic buckets:

  • Climate Records by U.S. State — all 50 states plus American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia.
  • Canadian Provinces — Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, Saskatchewan, and Yukon.
  • Australian States — New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, and Western Australia.
  • Other Countries — Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, China, Croatia, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greenland, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and Uzbekistan.

Coverage is therefore country- and state-level, not city-level, for the record pages themselves.

Step-by-step: getting to a place's records

  1. Open the homepage. The record links sit in the main navigation area under the headings above.
  2. Decide which bucket your place belongs to. A U.S. city means starting from its state; a German city means starting from Germany.
  3. Click the state, province, or country name. That takes you to its climate records page.
  4. Read the record types on that page — historical weather records, all-time highs and lows, and average temperatures and rain, depending on the region.

Expected result: you land on a page scoped to that state, province, or country rather than a single city.

Comparing places instead of looking one up

If your question is "which of these two places is hotter, wetter, or cloudier," the site has dedicated comparison tools rather than single-place pages:

Tool What it compares
Country Comparison / Country Weather Comparison One country against another
Countries by Cloud Cover Countries ranked by cloud cover
City Comparison One city against another
U.S. State Capital Comparison State capitals
100 Largest U.S. Metros Major U.S. metro areas
25 Largest Canadian Metros Major Canadian metro areas
State Comparison U.S. states against each other

So city-level data does exist — it just lives in the comparison tools rather than in the per-state record pages.

Record types you can expect to see

  • All-time highs and lows by U.S. state, useful for "has it ever hit X degrees here" questions.
  • Average temperatures and rain by U.S. state, for baseline climate rather than single events.
  • Historical weather records generally, described by the site as its core purpose: an easy interface for viewing historical weather records.

The site also publishes yearly record roundups — for example, a 2025 weather records article — and a blog with additional articles.

Common snags

  • Looking for a city page and not finding one. Start from the state or country, then use the comparison tools if you need city-level figures.
  • Assuming global coverage. The "Other Countries" list is a fixed set of roughly 30 countries; places outside it, and outside the U.S., Canada, and Australia, are not covered.
  • Expecting forecasts. The site is explicitly about historical records, not current or future weather.

Practical notes

Extreme Weather Watch describes itself as a new site founded in 2021, dedicated to providing an easy interface to see historical weather records. It also offers a temperature conversion calculator. The homepage lists a copyright range of 2021–2026 under H Brothers Inc, along with contact and privacy policy links. No pricing or account requirements are stated on the page.