A List of some Favorite Weather Links
September 8, 2011, Submitted by: Ken Tweet
The following list of weather links I have found to be interesting and useful. Maybe you will too. They are primarily US-centric, so, apologies to the rest of the world.
I have built a US weather summary page which includes latest snapshots of US temperatures, radar, convective outlook (T-storms and Tornadoes), forecast map, lightning, and east and west coast satellite (visible and infrared).
I have built a US regional weather radar page which includes the latest regional radar loops. This is a great page to have a closer look at the precipitation and current storms around the country.
There are many countless weather sites out there on the internet, and my Firefox browser ‘weather’ bookmarks contain more links than any other category (I might have been a meteorologist in a previous life…) so here are just a few of my saved links for those of you who are interested in the weather around you.
Lots of map options. Nice radar display. Full screen is very nice, with capability to zoom in. Click the ‘US’ icon in the upper-left for a nice overview.
iMap Weather
Drag the map and zoom around the country. It also includes live storm chaser video links, and lots of map display options.
Storm Chasers
I love this high resolution radar of the US. Click on an area and it will zoom to the local radar.
Radar – National Mosaic – Full Resolution
Lots of regional and focused satellite links from the NHC.
Satellite links from the National Hurricane Center
‘GOES’ Satellite (East and West). Nice selection of resolutions.
GOES Project Science
Great site for live and latest severe weather warnings.
Severe Weather and Flash Flood Warnings
The Joe Bastardi Weather Blog. I love this guy… Plain talking New Yorker…
Joe Bastardi Weather Blog
An informative drought map from the University of Nebraska.
US Drought Monitor
Animated global jet stream map from Storm Surfing.com
Global Jet Stream
Northern Hemisphere jet stream ‘forecast’ maps from University of California – San Francisco. Forecasts out to 120 hours.
Jet Stream Forecasts at 300 millibars
A free lightning map of the US.
VAISALA – Current Lightning map of the US
A very interesting resource to discover weather conditions, wave heights, ocean temperatures of a huge selection of buoys around the globe.
National Data Buoy Center
Very interactive weather map with a multitude of layer options.
noaa’s nowCOAST
Noaa’s snow depth map for the US.
United States Snow Cover
Detailed snow depth information from the NWS.
Interactive Snow Information
NOAA Storm Prediction Center forecast for convection.
Current Convective Outlooks
Click on the map for even more detailed surface analysis information.
Global Surface Analysis
Ultraviolet Index and forecast.
UV Index
Listen to NOAA Weather Radios from around the country.
NOAA Weather Radio – online
Thousands of weather cams from around the US.
Weather Webcams
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The weather site I like the best is weather underground at http://www.wunderground.com as I can get most of what I need to look at here. The National weather service is pretty good also. I am going to check out some of these links above later. It seems like no one can have too many book marks that can give you good information.
The best weather radar I’ve seen is FullScreenRadar.com at http://fullscreenradar.com because it has everything I need, full screen radar, up to the minute conditions,weather alerts, and warnings, and it let’s you customize your settings. It even let’s me put the name of my business in the local conditions title so my customers can see my company name when they take a peek at it as they go by. I keep it running 24/7 on a flat screen tv and it looks awesome. I also like weather underground, but for visuals I’ll stick with fullscreenradar.com…looks so cool