Sky Watcher's Weather Pages

    One of my major interests is the weather, so I've assembled a plethora of weather links to keep track of what's happening out there.  While the Internet has been revolutionary for weather watchers, it is no substitute for looking out the window once in a while. Besides the resources and links offered from this page, I also have started a weather section of my personal blog. 

•  My Chase Page

•  Mountain Weather   

•  Colorado Weather 

  • Fort Collins Weather Page          

  • Longs Peak Weather Page

  • Pikes Peak Weather Page  

  • Wind Watch Page

  • Fire Weather

•  New York Weather

•  Climatology

•  Tropical Cyclones

•  Storms

•  Weather Impacts

  • Local Storm Reports (LSR's) from the National Weather Service
  • Public Information Statements (PSN's)
  • Record Reports (RER's)

   

•  Forecasting Tools

•  Atmospheric Optics    I really like atmospheric optics, so I'm going to try to find some good links - here's the first one:
  • Atmospheric Optics

•  General Links for Meteorological Data and Analyses

  • NCAR-RAP Real-Time Weather Data website

  • NOAA - National Weather Service

  • ADDS - Aviation Digital Data Service Homepage
  • Environment Canada's Green Lane -- Analysis Charts
  • College of DuPage Weather Analysis Page

•  Weather Discussions

  • Discussions from the Hydrometeorological Prediction Center (HPC) of the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP)

    • Short term discussion
    • Extended range discussion
    • Heavy snow discussion
    • Model diagnostic discussion

     

  • Discussions from the Climate Prediction Center (CPC) of NCEP

    • US hazards discussion
    • Ensemble discussion
    • El Nino/Southern Oscillation diagnostic discussion
    • 90 day prognostic discussion
    • Drought Assessment
    • Other expert assessments

     

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•  Current Weather Monitoring

  • World View Satellite Mosaic from Penn State's Weather World
  • Current World Temperatures from Penn State's Weather World
  • Current temperature extremes across the world
    • Weather extremes - Wx-Now
    • Current World Severe Weather and Extreme Weather [Central Atlantic Storm Investigators]
    • WeatherMatrix: Current Weather Reports
  • Climate Extremes
    • NCDC: Global Measured Extremes of Temperature and Precipitation
    • World Temperature Extremes
    • Extreme Temperatures for Locations Around the World
    • Extreme Temperatures in the United States
    • TheWeatherStop.com Weather for the United States and the World from Mobile Alabama
    • USATODAY.com -- Recent U.S. Temperature Extremes
  • Recent Weather Impacts
    • UK Met Office    At the bottom of their page is a 'world weather news' section

     

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•  Climate Monitoring

  • Climate Diagnostics Center (CDC) at NOAA-CIRES
    • Map room
  • National Climatic Data Center
    • US Snow Monitoring
    • Global hazards and significant events in the past week
    • U.S. Billion Dollar Climate and Weather Disasters, 1980-2004
    • Global Warming
  • National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center -- National Snow Summary
  • National Precipitation Analysis -- from the National Weather Service
  • FSL hourly/daily rain data

•  Numerical Weather Prediction

  • The Penn State E-Wall    A plethora of information from the weather models that run each day.
  • College of DuPage Model Page
  • Bufkit Data Distribution System    Model-based profiles.

    The Developmental Testbed Center at NCAR

     

•  Meteorological Calculators

  • Meteorological Calculator                Convert wind speed, temperature to different units, convert relative humidity <--> dew point, calculates wind chill and heat index.
  • Heat Index Chart and Calculator     

   

•  Commentary and Interpretation

  • Dr. Dewpoint's Library    Interesting and sometimes enlightening theories on recent and future weather
  • Read some interesting essays about various aspects of meteorology by Chuck Doswell III, who is never afraid to stir up some intellectual grey matter and get people thinking.

   

•  Meteorology Education on the Web

  • Jetstream Online Weather School         Want to learn more about the weather -- online lessons for the general public.
  • MetEd from COMET        UCAR's highly acclaimed COMET program has a multitude of online tutorials and modules for both the technical user and for specific audiences, like middle grade school children.

   

•  Weather Blogs

  • CIMSS Satellite Blog    A blog about satellite meteorology and interpretation of recent weather events

   

•  Miscellaneous

  • Gallery - MODIS Land Rapid Response System    Awesome images of recent weather and geophysical events.
  • Firestorm induced tornado    On June 9, 2002, a the Missionary Ridge fire near Durango flared into a firestorm and induced a tornado which produced F3 damage. Numerous other landspouts and vortices were generated. Visit the page to find out more and view some of the footage.

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  And finally, an organization that everyone should know about:

  

  Want to know about the World Wide Weather Weenie of the Week? Click the link and you'll find out!

  So far I've 'weenied' four times. The first time I made an innocent comment about one of my Dynamics textbooks (Holton) while studying for the PhD Qualifying Exam. The second time, I had baked a cake to celebrate the occurrence of a relatively rare (at least back then) Cat 5 hurricane in the Atlantic (while the storm was still far out to sea). The third time I was caught combining my intense curiosity about local inversions with intense driving in the atmos parking lot. The fourth time, I was attending the outdoor wedding of Chris Rozoff - it was atypically humid and hot for a June Colorado day, so I whipped out my handheld Kestrel portable weather station and proceeded to take an observation for posterity's sake (I signed their wedding card with the ob).