WEATHER-RELATED WEB SITES AROUND THE COUNTRY

This list is by no means complete, so if you know of other good weather-related web sites that you frequently visit, please send me the URL and I will include it in the list.

 

Weather over the U.S.

Northeastern U.S. Weather

Tropical Weather

Severe Weather

Weather Education

Organizations with weather pages

Cimate and Ozone-Related

National Laboratories

EL Nino

Radar

Satellite Data

Profilers/RASS/Sodars

Lidar

Meteorology Internships

Job Postings

MET 130/140 Students

 

 

 


Weather over the US
National Weather Service interactive weather around the country http://iwin.nws.noaa.gov/iwin/graphicsversion/main.html
Unisys - all sorts of meteorological data http://weather.unisys.com
Local Weather Observations from the National Weather Service http://iwin.nws.noaa.gov/iwin/graphicsversion/main.html
Model output from SUNY Brockport http://www.weather.brockport.edu/cgi-bin/model
Weather Data from the University of Michigan http://cirrus.sprl.umich.edu/wxnet/
Very nice weather page at UCAR http://www.rap.ucar.edu/weather/
Weather Data Interface at Texas A&M http://www.met.tamu.edu/personnel/students/weather/weather_interface.html
Ohio State Universtiy Weather Data http://twister.sbs.ohio-state.edu
Unisys Surface Data Map http://weather.unisys.com/surface/sfc_map.gif
Intellicast Surface Map http://www.intellicast.com/LocalWeather/World/UnitedStates/SurfaceAnalysis/
NCEP (NMC) Forecasts http://www.cdc.noaa.gov:80/~map/maproom/ENS/ens.html
The MAPS/RUC Hompage at FSL http://maps.fsl.noaa.gov
National Hourly Precipitation Website http://precip.fsl.noaa.gov/hourly_precip.html
National METAR data web site at FSL http://www-frd.fsl.noaa.gov/mab/metar/
 
 
Northeastern U.S. Weather
Lyndon State College Dept. of Meteorology Weather Page http://apollo.lsc.vsc.edu
Mt. Washingtons home page - the worlds worst weather! http://www.mountwashington.org
Winter (and other) Storm Watches http://winter.terrapin.com
Northeastern U.S. Winter Storm Page http://www.millenniumweather.com
Albany Numerical Forecast Map http://www.atmos.albany.edu/das/nwp.html
Long Island Weather Page http://rolly.ccd.bnl.gov/~thealy/wxnew.shtml
Northeast Media in Atmospheric Sciences http://nemas.net/

 

Severe Weather

Storm Prediction Center http://www.spc.noaa.gov
Hurricanes - Online Meteorology Guides http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/hurr/home.rxml
National Severe Storms Laboratory - http://www.nssl.noaa.gov
 
 
Tropical Weather
Atlantic Tropical Weather Center http://banzai.neosoft.com/citylink/blake/tropical.html
1999 Atlantic Seasonal Hurricane Forecasts at Colorado State University http://tropical.atmos.colostate.edu/forecasts/
National Hurricane Center http://www.nhc.noaa.gov
 
 
 
Weather Education
Essentials of Meteorology Textbook - links to sites relevant to material covered in each chapter - This site is also good for MET130 and MET140 http://www.wadsworth.com/geo/essen_meteo/resources/hypercontents/index .html
Learn how to do CONTOUR ANALYSIS http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/wxwise/contour/
Meteorology Guide: the online guides from the Univeristy of Illinois http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/home.rxml
Wadsworth Earth Science Resource Center: Meteorology Texts http://www.wadsworth.com/geo/meteorologyTexts.html
Archived Data Sources (Unidata's List) http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/sum_wkshp/plan/cs.archive/wkshp.data.html
COMET Case Study Data on the WWW http://www.joss.ucar.edu/cometCases/
METED Home Page http://meted.ucar.edu/
WSR-88D Operations Training Branch http://www.osf.noaa.gov/otb/otb.htm
The PAGE program at UCAR http://www.page.ucar.edu
Geoscience Resources on the Web http://www.covis.nwu.edu/geosciences/resources/
 
 
 
Organizations with weather pages
The Weather Channel! http://www.weather.com/
CNN's Weather Page http://www.cnn.com/WEATHER/
American Meteorological Society Home Page http://www.ametsoc.org/AMS/index.html
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) http://www.ucar.edu
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Home Page http://www.noaa.gov
News Releases from JPL  http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/releases/2000/
 
 
 
Cimate and Ozone Related
USA Today - Climate and the seasons http://www.usatoday.com/weather/walm2.htm
Variations in solar irradiance and climate change http://eospso.gsfc.nasa.gov/eos_edu.pack/p06.html
Information about ozone depletion from the EPA http://www.epa.gov/docs/ozone/science/science.html
Climate Change Gazette: www.e5.org/pages/ccg.htm#5
The NOAA Threats Assessment Web site - weather related threat data http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/predictions/threats/
NOAA's drought monitoring and forecast web site http://www.drought.noaa.gov
The Climate Change Information Kit: www.unep.ch/iuc/submenu/infokit/factcont.htm
 

EL Nino Sites

Frequently Asked questions about El Nino http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/toga-tao/el-nino/faq.html
NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) Web Site on El Nino http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/toga-tao/el-nino-story.html
Another NASA Web Site, lots of cool images! http://topex-www.jpl.nasa.gov/elnino/elnino.html
Another NASA site with links to many other sites http://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/el_nino/
Animations of El Nino Events http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/~map/maproom/text/climate_pages/sst_olr/el_nino_anim.shtml
San Fransisco State University El Nino Web Site http://twister.sfsu.edu/elnino/elnino.html
Instructional WEB module on El Nino (this is a nice site!) http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/eln/home.rxml
NOVA ONLINE - an "online adventure" called "Tracking Elnino" http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elnino/
 
 
Radar Sites
Doppler On Wheels http://aaron.ou.edu/xband/
NEXRAD Operational Support Facility http://www.osf.noaa.gov/
WSR88D Site Locations http://apollo.lsc.vsc.edu/classes/remote/lecture_notes/radar/88d_88d_sites.html
NEXRAD (WSR-88D) MAIN MENU http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/ol/radar/radarresources.html
MIT Radar Home Page http://www-cmpo.mit.edu/Radar_Lab/Radar_Lab.html
Bistatic Radar Home Page http://aaron.ou.edu/bistatic/index.html
Intelecast National Radar http://www.intellicast.com/weather/usa/radar/
Intelecast National Radar Summary http://www.intellicast.com/weather/usa/radsum/
Northeastern US Radar Composite from Intelecast centered at Boston http://www.intellicast.com/weather/bos/radar/
Boston Radar Summary http://www.intellicast.com/weather/bos/radsum/
Current Boston Radar data http://www.intellicast.com/weather/bos/nexrad/
Northeastern US Radar Compostite from Intelecast centered at Burlington http://www.intellicast.com/weather/btv/radar/
Burlington Radar Summary http://www.intellicast.com/weather/btv/radsum/
Current Burlington Radar data http://www.intellicast.com/weather/btv/nexrad/
Radar Images from the Universtiy of Michigan http://cirrus.sprl.umich.edu/wxnet/radsat.html
 
 
 
 
Satellite Data Sites
  1. Real-time satellite data
  2. Archived satellite data
  3. About satellites
 
 
 
Profilers/RASS/Sodars
Real-time profiler data from NOAA http://www-dd.fsl.noaa.gov/online.html
Real-time profiler data via RAP at NCAR http://http.rap.ucar.edu/weather/index.html
Real-time profiler data from Texas A&M http://www.met.tamu.edu/personnel/students/weather/profiler/
Profiler/RASS/Sodar Examples http://gonzalo.er.anl.gov/ABLE/dataarchive.html
Argonne Boundary Layer Experiments http://gonzalo.er.anl.gov/ABLE/
 
 
 
Lidar
 
NOAA/ETL's Lidar Home Page http://www2.etl.noaa.gov/instruments.html
Wisconsin's Lidar Home Page http://lidar.ssec.wisc.edu/index.htm
NASA's Lidar Page http://virl.gsfc.nasa.gov/
 
 
 
National Laboratories
The National Weather Service http://www.nws.noaa.gov/
National Center for Atmospheric Research http://www.ncar.ucar.edu/
Unidata Home Page http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/
COMET Home Page http://www.comet.ucar.edu
COMET Case Studies http://www.joss.ucar.edu/cometCases/
National Center for Atmospheric Research/Amospheric Technology Division http://www.atd.ucar.edu/welcome.html
National Severe Storms Laboratory http://www.nssl.noaa.gov
Forecast Systems Laboratory homepage http://www.fsl.noaa.gov/
National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/
Environmental Research Laboratory in Boulder, CO http://www.etl.noaa.gov/
 
 
 
 
 
Miscellaneous  
 
Earth Science Journals online http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Peaks/6731/Journal.html
AMS Journals online http://ams.allenpress.com
CODIAC - Geophysical Datasets online http://www.ofps.ucar.edu/codiac/            
Color Topographic Maps of the United States http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/states/states.html
Solar Space Weather! http://www.sec.noaa.gov/primer/primer.html
NWS ASOS Home Page http://www.nws.noaa.gov/oso/oso1/oso11/oso112/asos.html
UK Forecasts and Charts http://www.bham.ac.uk/geography/met/weather2.htm
VORTEX Field Program Preliminary Results http://mrd3.nssl.ucar.edu/~vortex/
ACARs data on the web - FSL demonstration site: acweb.fsl.noaa.gov/
North American Radiosonde Database on the web: http://raob.fsl.noaa.gov/Raob_Software.html

 

Job Postings on the Web
Job Postings on Nature's home page (the magazine) http://www.nature.com/naturejobs/
SCIENCE On-Line http://www.sciencemag.org/
Job Opportunities Within NOAA http://www.rdc.noaa.gov/~hrmo/
The Chronicle of Higher Education http://chronicle.merit.edu/jobs/
CareerPath.com Home Page http://www.careerpath.com/
Jobs in Atmospheric Science and Meteorology http://mrd3.mmm.ucar.edu/~dob/www/jobs.html

 

Meteorology Internships

The Research Experiences for Undergraduates Program http://www.caps.ou.edu/CAPS/reu.html
The SOARS program at UCAR http://www.fin.ucar.edu/soars
Internship Opportunities on the American Meteorological Society Web Site http://www.ametsoc.org/AMS/amsedu/index.html

 

MET 130 Student sites
New England Storm Track Page by Mike Hardiman http://nemas.net/nest/
 

last updated: 10/18/00 12:32 PM