Weather Sites:
NOAA-National Weather Service
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/
U.S official weather forecast information. This site is huge. Take a look
at some of the links:
CNN Weather
http://www.cnn.com/WEATHER/
CNN's interactive weather page. …
Weather Underground
http://www.wunderground.com/
This is a great site to work with. One can find local, USA, and worldwide
weather and set up a page to read the weather for several different areas
everyday and much more.
Intellicast.com
http://www.intellicast.com/
….local, USA and worldwide weather. Great radar images that cover several
hours so one can see the weather moving!
Live Weather Images
http://www.weatherimages.org/
This site has current weather images in general, current regional images,
forecast maps, satellite imagery, European images, bodies of water data,
seismic activity, city and regional Doppler radar, movie loops, surf
information, and aviation information. One can calculate sunrise/sunset
times, calculate heat index and wind chill here too.
UM Weather
http://cirrus.sprl.umich.edu/wxnet/
UM Weather, part of The Weather Underground, provides access to thousands
of forecasts, images, and a huge collection of weather links. This site
has some great weather maps.
Archived Weather Data [top]
World Climate
http://www.worldclimate.com/
This site contains historical weather averages of rainfall and temperature
data for all over the world.
National Climatic Data
Center
http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/ncdc.html
NCDC is the world's largest active archive of weather data.
Under Climate, Get/View Data, Surface Data-Graphs, Climate Visualization (CLIMVIS)
and then select Global Historical Climatological Network Data and follow
the directions.
Weather Calculators & Algorithms
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Weather Calculators &
Algorithms
http://www.snowball.frogspace.net/js/
Here is a collection of Javascript programs that perform weather
calculations for humidity, wind chill, heat index, and more.
Ask an Expert site [top]
Ask Earth & Sky
http://www.vrd.org/locator/sites/earthnsky.shtml
Ask Earth & Sky is a question and answer service for information on
established ideas in science, as well as new discoveries in earth science,
astronomy and environmental science. The entire Earth & Sky site can be
searched by keyword. Several representative questions per month are
answered.
Ask Jack
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/askjack/wjack3.htm
Ask Jack is a weather-related question and answer service of USA Today
Online. Approximately 33% of questions received are answered.
Weather Encyclopedia [top]
Weather.com's
Storm Encyclopedia
http://www.weather.com/encyclopedia/?from=footer
The Storm Encyclopedia provides users with all they ever wanted to know
about severe weather and tips on how to prepare and plan for it. It also
offers links to current satellite weather maps.
Lesson Plans [top]
WW2010-The Weather
World 2010 Project
http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/home.rxml
WW2010, provided by the University Of Illinois Department Of Atmospheric
Sciences, is designed as a "framework for integrating current and archived
weather data with multimedia instructional resources using new and
innovative technologies." This is a work in progress and a great site. For
example: click on Online Guides / Projects and activities and look at some
of the projects.
Pie in the
Sky
http://www.planemath.com/activities/sky/sky_home.html
Pie in the Sky, part of the PlaneMath site covers using math to do a
weather report. |
