NCDC source is not the only source of climate data. Most common alternative source of climate data is Regional Climate Centers:
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Figure 3: Regional Climate Centers and Climate Data and Services Institutions High
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In addition the Regional Climate Centers, some NOAA institutions have climate data bases available. One of most user friendly climate data bases is located at the NOAA/OAR Climate Diagnostic Center site: http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/USstation/. Besides being a source of climate data this site allows some data manipulations and plot displays, like time series, composites, histograms, etc.