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[October 15, 2013]  CHAMPAIGN -- The Midwestern Regional Climate Center has announced the launch of a new online climate data system where registrants can access climate data and other value-added products for free,

The new system, called cli-MATE, representing MRCC Application Tools Environment, is an online user-based system in which people can obtain a myriad of weather and climate data on various time and spatial scales: hourly, daily, monthly, seasonal and annual, and by individual station, climate division and state.

Real-time and historical climate data is accessible from around the United States, and registrants also have access to value-added tools, such as customizable charts of climate data, growing season statistics, degree-day products and graphs, freeze statistics, ranking of climate values, gridded maps of climate data and averages over various regions, and much more.

Using the data and value-added tools available on cli-MATE, people can answer questions such as: "How many growing degree-days have there been in my location since I planted my crops on April 16?" "This summer it hardly rained in my town. Was this the driest summer on record?" "When does the first measurable snowfall typically occur each season in my city?" "What were the highest precipitation totals in my county during the heavy rainstorm last week?"

To have access to cli-MATE, a user must register first, which can be easily done by clicking "Register Here" on the top right of the cli-MATE home page: http://mrcc.isws.illinois.edu/CLIMATE/.

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The Midwestern Regional Climate Center also provides other resources to obtain climate information, including real-time data and other resources from Midwest Climate Watch, http://mrcc.isws.illinois.edu/cliwatch/watch.htm, and the MRCC Mobile Maps, http://mrcc.isws.illinois.edu/m/. For users who would like to download and access large amounts of climate data, the center is still offering services to help with those needs through the service office: email mrcc@isws.illinois.edu.

[Text from file received from Midwestern Regional Climate Center]

The Midwestern Regional Climate Center is a cooperative program of the Illinois State Water Survey at the Prairie Research Institute, University of Illinois, and the National Climatic Data Center of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce.

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