Kevin Myatt is The Roanoke Times' weather columnist.

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One of the most frequently asked questions I receive is about where one can find daily weather data for area localities on the Internet.

One resource I often turn to (almost daily, in fact) is at the following URL: www.erh.noaa.gov/rnk/climate/f6/html/F6.html

On this National Weather Service link, you will find a wide array of weather data for each day and month back to 2000 for Roanoke, Blacksburg, Lynchburg, Danville and Bluefield, W.Va. -- the major weather stations for the Blacksburg weather service office's forecast area.

A disclaimer at the top does note: "All data below are unofficial and unedited. Edited and certified versions of these data can be obtained from the National Climatic Data Center." But I have found errors to be rare enough to consider this a valid and valuable resource.

To toot our own horn a bit, The Roanoke Times has weather data for Roanoke, Blacksburg, Bedford, Wytheville, Lynchburg, Martinsville and Lexington dating to the 1940s on the Datasphere site.

You can find that by clicking "Historical Weather Data for Southwest Virginia" on the Web site: www.roanoke.com/datasphere.

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