# Parkland Archives Weather — Monthly Comparison vs 96-Year Norm (Lee County, MS)

> Parkland Archives Weather — Monthly Comparison vs 96-Year Norm (Lee County, MS) is a paid API for AI agents from weather.parklandarchives.com, paid per call via x402, $0.1/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-13).

Returns a specific month's weather readings for Lee County (Tupelo), MS alongside the 96-year historical averages for that calendar month, including differences and percentile ranks.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://weather.parklandarchives.com/api/archive/compare
- Price: $0.1/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-13
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/parkland-archives-weather-monthly-comparison-vs-96-year-norm-lee-d6e26872
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_Z68MalT3TK436oDh6m-jw

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## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability parkland-archives-weather-monthly-comparison-vs-96-year-norm-lee-d6e26872
```

Example prompt: Was August 2022 hotter and drier than the 96-year historical norm for Tupelo, Mississippi? Give me the actual readings, the historical averages, the differences, and where that month ranks percentile-wise.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need to benchmark a specific historical month against long-term climate norms for Lee County (Tupelo), MS — particularly when percentile ranking or above/below-average context is needed. Prefer this over a general search endpoint when the user wants a direct comparison rather than a raw data lookup.

## Known failure modes

- Year out of range (before 1930 or after 2100) returns validation error
- Month value not between 1 and 12 returns validation error
- Missing required year or month parameters returns 400 bad request
- Future months with no recorded data may return empty or error response
- Payment not processed (x402 protocol failure) results in 402 Payment Required

## How this service works

96 years (1930–2026) of hand-archived historical weather for Lee County (Tupelo), Mississippi — monthly extremes, 100°F+ day counts, records, and trends. Pay-per-call API for AI agents via x402.

## Output

Returns the requested month's observed weather readings (temperature, precipitation, etc.), the long-term historical averages for that same calendar month over 96 years, the numerical differences between observed and average, and the percentile ranks indicating how extreme or typical the month was.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
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    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "year",
      "month"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "year": {
       "type": "integer",
       "maximum": 2100,
       "minimum": 1930
      },
      "month": {
       "type": "integer",
       "maximum": 12,
       "minimum": 1
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
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}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {}
}
```

## More

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