Web Links for Weather & Climate - CCS/ERTH 303

Fall 2009

Local Weather

The University of Montana’s Hellgate Canyon Weather Station.

http://www.spatial.umt.edu/weather/Current_wx.htm

Wunderground map of current conditions near Missoula.

http://www.wunderground.com/wundermap/?lat=46.87310&lon=-114.03053&zoom=12&type=hyb&units=english&rad=1&rad.num=1&rad.spd=25&rad.opa=70&rad.stm=0&rad.type=N0R&rad.smo=1&rad.mrg=0&wxsn=1&wxsn.mode=tw&svr=0&cams=0&sat=0&riv=0&mm=0&hur=0&fire=0&tor=0&ndfd=0&pix=0 

National Weather Service’s Missoula Forecast Office page.

http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/Missoula/

Current Conditions (and past 24 hours) from NWS in Missoula

http://weather.noaa.gov/weather/current/KMSO.html

Don Morton’s WRF models for western Montana.

http://pileus.arsc.alaska.edu/weather/

The Montana Climate Center (UM Forestry)

http://climate.ntsg.umt.edu/

Montana Department of Transportation weather cameras.

http://www.mdt.mt.gov/travinfo/weather/rwis.shtml

Mountain Weather from northwestern Wyoming – lots of good links.

http://www.mountainweather.com/FORECAST.htm

Missoula County Air Quality Status – Updated at 9am and 4pm daily when fires are active.

http://www.co.missoula.mt.us/EnvHealth/AirQ/CurrentAirStatus/CurrentStatusReport.html

Montana State Air Quality Report and Map– Updated at 10am daily.

http://www.deq.state.mt.us/FireUpdates/index.asp

http://todaysair.mt.gov/AirMonitoring/AirDataMap.aspx

http://nris.mt.gov/deq/montanaairquality/default.aspx

Current satellite-based fire maps for all US regions – Updated at 6am daily. LARGE FILES.

http://activefiremaps.fs.fed.us/recent3.php

National Weather

National Weather Service's Graphical Forecast Page. Click to zoom in and get more options.

http://www.weather.gov/forecasts/graphical/sectors/

National Weather Service’s Official Daily Weather Maps (Past maps; New ones not posted until about 11 am the following day).

http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/dailywxmap/index.html

Wunderground's Live Maps of Weather Observations.

http://www.wunderground.com/wundermap/?lat=38.54817&lon=-95.80078&zoom=4

National Climate Data Center’s Unedited Local Climatological Data (Past daily observations for last year, up to current day)

http://cdo.ncdc.noaa.gov/ulcd/ULCD?prior=Y

NWS Hydrometeorological Prediction Center (Forecast discussions)

http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/index.shtml

National Center for Atmospheric Research’s (NCAR) Research Applications Program (Current and Forecasts)

http://www.rap.ucar.edu/weather/

NWS Meteorological Development Laboratory’s Current Forecast Site

http://www.weather.gov/mdl/synop/products.php

Unisys Weather – National weather maps.

http://weather.unisys.com/index.html

DataStreme – The American Meteorological Society’s daily weather maps.

http://www.ametsoc.org/amsedu/dstreme/

University of Illinois’ current national weather maps.

http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/wx/home.rxml

The Weather Channel.

http://www.weather.com/index.html

http://www.weather.com/maps/maptype/currentweatherusnational/index_large.html?from=wxcenter_maps

BBC’s World Weather site.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/world/

A simple portrayal of the jet stream position.

http://www.weatherimages.org/data/imag192.html

Severe Weather

National Hurricane Center

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/

StormPulse is a site with up-to-date information and interactive hurricane maps. Thanks to Colin for finding it!

http://www.stormpulse.com/

Unisys's archive of Hurricane Advisories. Click on this year for those to date.

http://weather.unisys.com/hurricane/

Wisconsin ’s Tropical Storm Page with good graphics.

http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/tropic2/

Tropical Cyclone Heat Potential site – graphics for all ocean basins

http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/phod/cyclone/data/intro.html

Dr. Jeff Master’s Wunderground Blog

http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/show.html

New York Times site on Katrina

http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/national/2005_HURRICANEKATRINA_GRAPHIC/

Russ’s Links to Forecast Sites

The College of Dupage’s NexLab Model Product’s page.

http://weather.cod.edu/forecast/

NCAR’s RAP Real-Time Weather Data Page with forecasts, radar, and other observations.

http://www.rap.ucar.edu/weather/

The National Weather Service’s Statistical Modeling Branch page with GFS, Eta, and MOS forecasts.

http://www.nws.noaa.gov/mdl/synop/

The NWS’s Interactive Weather Information Network page. – Check real-time alerts from all over the nation.

http://iwin.nws.noaa.gov/iwin/iwdspg1.html

The NWS’s Hydrometeorological Prediction Center page with current products including forecasts.

http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/html/fcsttxt.html

Other Cool Sites

GoogleMaps Weather mash-ups site.

http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/#weather

Updated 8 September 2009 . If any of these links don’t work, please e-mail me anna.klene@umontana.edu Thanks!