Weather conditions

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I've always found it difficult finding a good weather website that let's me see details of trends and conditions of cities all across the world, not just the USA.

So I was delighted to recently find this great website http://weatherspark.com/#!graphs;a=Turkey/Istanbul that not only show temperature averages, but also rain totals and typical cloud cover... it also easily changes between Celsius to Fahrenheit.

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