Everyone is concerned about the weather and it's something none of us really can do a thing about about. Mark Twain once said "There are two times when a man should not speculate: when he cannot afford to, and when he can. " So for all you weather lovers, here are a few sites that will give you every kind of weather and climate data, map, or image to speculate on.
Canadian Climate
http://www.on.doe.ca/
You can click on a map of any of the regions of Canada and get regional or local weather forecasts, weather conditions, satellite images, maps, radar images, ozone reports, SMOG, warnings, and much more.
CICERO - Center for International Climate and Environmental Research, Oslo.
http://www.cicero.uio.no/
Established by the Norwegian Government in April 1990 , The concentrates on international negotiations on climate agreements, global climate and regional environment effects in developing and industrialized countries, and indirect effects of emissions and feedback mechanisms in the climate system as a result of chemical processes in the atmosphere. You can learn of the center's research and publications at this site.
Climate Research Division
http://meteora.ucsd.edu/crd.html
Scripps Institution of Oceanography Climate Research Division Research
themes include predicting the natural variability of climate and understanding the consequences of man-made increases in the greenhouse effect. Has links to other climate related sites and some weather data.
Current Weather Maps/Movies
http://rs560.cl.msu.edu/weather/
Lots of cool weather maps and movies from the Unix Computing Group at Michigan State.
Climate and Radiation
http://climate.gsfc.nasa.gov/
This site if from NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center and as some good educational materials on clouds, aerosols, rainfall, other related web sites, info on remote sensing, modeling, and analysis. A list of publications, personnel, and current projects are also listed.
Live Access to Climate Data
http://ferret.wrc.noaa.gov/fbin/climate_server
Chart your latitude and longitude and get info on sea surface temperature, air temperature, wind speed, sea level pressure, and specific humidity, or change the data set. Then you can output your data to a graphic, spreadsheet, ASCII file, and more. Has links to other climate sites.
Meteorology
http://wwwmbb.cs.colorado.edu/~mcbryan/bb/41/summary.html
This site is an index of servers with meteorological data.
Meteorology #2
http://www.met.fu-berlin.de/DataSources/MetIndex.html
Another index to WWW, gopher and ftp sites. Index of data, geographic locations, maps, forecasts, satellite images, and reports are listed.
National Climatic Data Center
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/ncdc.html
All kind of great weather maps here. Downloadable images, data, and
publications. Global data from over 8000 different stations around the
world. Even has specialized data sets like World War II era data, and 19th century US climate data. You can learn of research programs in progress and listing of all their publications and services. Has links to other sites.
Weather Resources on the Web
http://cyberlands.com/resources/weather/
Select a State and get the latest weather. Has links to all the government weather information services as well as links to many university weather sites. Lots more including images, maps, and movies, and world weather links.
The Weather Network
http://www.TheWeatherNetwork.com/
All the Canadian weather you want at the click of a mouse and it also includes the US and World.
Southeast Regional Climate
http://sercc.dnr.state.sc.us/education.html
This sites has lots of good climate info for educators in the Southeast.
©1996 Don Rittner