Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) provides archival climate data for a [wealth of climate stations](ftp://client_climate@ftp.tor.ec.gc.ca/Pub/Get_More_Data_Plus_de_donnees/Station%20Inventory%20EN.csv) across the country. This data is available for download on the ECCC [data portal](http://climate.weather.gc.ca/). This website is useful for browsing data, and is convenient for downloading short periods of data. However, if you are seeking a 30-year period, the manual download of the necessary data can become very tedious. In that regard, ECCC also provides a bulk download function to make acquiring that data a little bit easier. While the process is much simpler than it has been in the past, one still must put in a little leg work to: