Not sure this is the right forum for this, but it's the closest I could find...
This precipitation data might help folks explore different areas where they are considering buying land, and might give others more detailed information on their own homestead's information. It can also help you plan for how much rain collection area and what size tanks you might need to hold the rainy season downpours and keep you going through the dry spells.
I had a hard time finding accurate climate data for our farmstead because it is 30 miles away and 700' higher than the closest airport reporting station.
I eventually found CoCoRaHS.com -- Community Collaborative Rain, Hail & Snow network. Problem solved! I also became a volunteer and started collecting our daily precipitation data to add to the database, and I wrote articles in our local papers to encourage others to do the same, since our rural area is under-reported.
CoCoRaHS is a fantastic data resource for hyper-local precipitation data in the US (inc. Guam & Puerto Rico), Canada, and Bahamas.
And TODAY they just rolled out a new station data dashboard, the CoCoRaHS Data Explorer, at
https://dex.cocorahs.org/
You can search for a station by selecting country, state, county, or by selecting on an interactive map.
The map will let you get closer to your target location, but you might pick a station that stopped collecting data 10 years ago, or that only collects 20% of the days... it will still give you NOAA and PRISM precipitation data interpolated for that specific location, which might be what you are looking for.
If you pick your county you will see a list of stations, and for each you can see if they are current and how many observations they have. This might give you a better idea of variability at that location. The example I tried to embed and attached just in case is from a station that had a few years of data, and that reports at a 90% rate, so the dataset is pretty complete. It shows the NOAA and PRISM averages interpolated for that location, as well as the actual data reported at the station each year.
This is the tip of the iceberg... the site has lots of ways to explore a station's data, and on the overall CoCoRaHS.com website there are myriad ways to display and compare their enormous dataset.
And... become a CoCoRaHS volunteer! It was exciting to see last year how much rain we got on our land, busting a many-year drought. This year we are below average again and back in severe drought, but CoCoRaHS collection is like a game and it's fun to see those days when our little dot has higher precip than anywhere else in our quadrant of the state. It is precious information!
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