Severe Weather, Hurricanes, Forecasting Models, Satellite Imagery, Maps and More! |
North America Surface Temperatures. Compliments of Plymouth State College Weather Center (Click on Map for a Larger View)
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NOAA Hurricane Research Division
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Main Street Weather(Weather Home Base!!)Here is a collection of the weather links I visit on a daily basis, some more than others depending upon the weather situation and time of year. I use these sites in my teaching and to fulfill my insatiable appetite for the weather. There are a wide variety of sources ranging from the best weather machines to regional weather, FAX, radar, single frame satellite imagery, computer model forecasts, hurricanes, typhoons, MPEG movies (visible, infrared & water vapor) and buoy data from the Atlantic, Pacific, and Gulf of Mexico. Just what did weather fanatics do for fun before the invention of the internet?
Weather and Climate Queries! |
Enter some key words to search by (Images, specific storms, NHC reports, typhoons, tracks, etc.):
Find pages with of these words and return results.
Midwest Weather! Here is a separate page with Midwest weather highlights. Downloads should be quicker!
Check Out My New
Radar & Severe Weather page. Much quicker downloads!
RADAR (Ohio State, WSI, Unisys Univ & Others)
Nature's Show: A GOES 5 Visible image of Super Typhoon Oliwa on 9/10/97. Note the small well defined eye and remarkable outflow pattern. From CMISS Tropical Cyclone Page.
Text Weather Summaries by State Really Cool and Accessible!
Midwest Weather Page!
500 mb Map from UCAR (Click on Map for a Larger View)
Severe Weather Links (Tornadoes, Thunderstorms, Weather Watches) |
Don't forget other Weather Machines , and Computer Models for further info on severe weather!
Surface Composite Maps |
US 850 MB Temperatures (Rapid Cylce Update 12 Hour Look Ahead). Click on the map for a larger view. (From Real-Time Weather Data )
FAX Charts |
FAX charts are remarkable in their clarity and diversity and make up the Bulk of the Western "Weather Wall" here at Miami University. While many weather machines provide more colorful maps & charts, FAX charts are Excellent for Display, Especially When Using Black & White Printing. These charts are in TIFF format and can be easily opened with Graphic Converter . Most of the charts need to be rotated 90, 180, or 270 degrees for Viewing!
NWS Marine FAX Charts | Alaska | Eastern Pacific | Gulf of Mexico | Atlantic Ocean | Foreign Sources |
Satellite Sites (Single Frame Pictures) |
GOES 8 (Wide coverage across N. America into the Atlantic)
GOES 10 (West coast, central & east Pacific)
The Weather Channel- An impressive collection of of low resolution images, many from unique locations around the world. Not so good for printing, but great for viewing because of the pleasant contrast between the ocean, land, and enhanced cloud tops.
These maps are shown within html pages at the Weather Channel.
Satellite Movies |
( Click Here for Select Real-Time Satellite Movies Already Downloaded on Another Page)
| Atlantic FLI Movies |
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| Atlantic GOES 8- IR |
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General Thoughts: The Weather Channel provides an array of satellite movies that can't be found anywhere else on the web. Besides being so geographically diverse, the movies provide very impressive visual contrast with blue oceans, brown landscapes and white clouds. The sat loops are animated gifs.
Radar |
Compliments of the Unisys Weather Processor (Click on Map for a Larger View)
Computer Models |
I now have a separate
Numerical Model Forecasting Page . Please Visit!
NOGAPS 144 Hour Surface Forecast. Note the location of the BLUE "5400 meter Line." Precip should be snow north of that line. Courtesy of the Weather Net Computer Models (Click on Map for a Larger View)
Interpretions and Explanations of these analyses and maps can be found at:
Climate
Diagnostic Center Map Room Weather Products
| Quick Menu | Nested Grid | Medium Range | ETA | Global Aviation |
| RUC 12 Hour Surface MSLP | RUC 850 MB Winds | RUC 500 MB Winds | RUC 500 MB Temp |
| ETA Surface MSLP 48 Hour Movie | ETA Vorticity 500 MB Movie | ETA 500 MB Winds 48 Hour Movie | ETA 500 MB Temp 48 Hour Movie |
The Forecast "Expert" Page. All of the Analyses are on One Page!
Yes, crawfish in Ohio!
Other Excellent Weather Machines |
(An amazing collection of weather sites & information)
Hurricanes and Tropical Weather |
Barograph Tracing, Hurricane Hugo, September 1989, St. Croix. Each main vertical interval (west-east) represents six hours--the pressure is in millibars. As Hugo bore down on the island, colleagues did not think they would survive the night! The next morning, some described the scene as what they would expect to see after a nuclear war. There was not a leaf left on standing trees!
