Freely available and re-distributable weather observations over the US? I am looking for a (small) data set of weather observations for a few (say 5-20) weather stations in the US, with observations of precipitation, temperature and wind speed for the year 2016. The data should be freely available and downloadable - and, should be allowed to be re-distributed to third parties, since I would like to use it as an example data set in an R package to demonstrate some methodology I have implemented.

Is there such a data set?
Such a dataset can be found via the NCDC. Here is the main gateway. My 'go to' place for high temporal resolution data from NCDC is the 5-minute ASOS data.