About RealWeatherCheck
Why this exists
Searching a city's "average weather" mostly turns up a forecast site or a Wikipedia climate table with a dozen numbers and no sense of what they add up to. RealWeatherCheck instead reads NOAA's own 30-year climate normals for 4,876 US cities and reduces them to one comfort score, plus the specific numbers behind it: mild months, seasonal swing, rain and snow.
What goes into the score
Every city's figures come from NOAA's 30-year climate normals, read from the nearest weather station on record, sourced via a public BigQuery dataset. The comfort score is this site's own way of weighing those normals (mild months, temperature swing, rainfall, snowfall), not an official NOAA rating or a national standard.
Not a forecast
This is the one thing every page repeats on purpose: these are 30-year averages, not a prediction for any specific day. Anyone who needs tomorrow's forecast should use weather.gov directly; this site answers the slower question of what a normal year here actually feels like.
Who runs this
RealWeatherCheck is an independently run site, not affiliated with NOAA or the National Weather Service. Each city's page is generated directly from the public dataset above rather than written freehand per city, then checked against that same source data before publishing. Where a page ever carries a sponsored or affiliate link, that will be disclosed on the page itself and in the privacy policy.
How this is written and checked
Every city page on RealWeatherCheck is generated by cross-referencing NOAA's climate normals dataset directly, not paraphrased from another weather site. Pages stick to what that dataset actually shows, including its gaps, see the guides for exactly where NOAA's own data goes quiet, rather than filling a gap with a guess. Corrections reported through the contact page are checked against the source NOAA data directly.
Written by
Every city page on RealWeatherCheck is generated by AI software directly from NOAA's climate normals dataset, not a named human author. No journalist or editor writes or reviews a page before it publishes; the temperature, rainfall and snowfall figures themselves come from NOAA, not from AI. The site's operator reviews corrections and questions submitted through the contact page and updates a page if one turns out to be wrong.