Sites About Weather:
Weather Tools
http://www.miamisci.org/hurricane/weathertools.html
Miami Museum of Science-Weather Tools site has information on how to
make a rain gauge and a thermometer. There is also an example of
a rain graph.
BBC Weather Center—a great resource.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/weatherwise/index.shtml
Weather Forecasts
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.
UM Weather
http://cirrus.sprl.umich.edu/wxnet/
This site is part of The Weather Underground with links to more weather
related information and to the One Sky, Many Voices Project, a K-12 science
curricula that has a great list of weather related
links. 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!
Weather Channel
http://www.weather.com/
CNN.com Weather
http://www.cnn.com/WEATHER/
NOAA-National Weather Service
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/
U.S official weather forecast information. This site is huge. Two of
the links are:
- Weather Safety
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/safety.html
This page has links to information on what to do incase of floods,
thunderstorms, lightning and more.
- Climate Prediction Center
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/predictions/
This site contains information on weather watches, the weather next
week or next month and readings on ultraviolet radiation.
Archived Weather Data
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 Calculations
Weather Calculators & Algorithms
http://www.snowball.frogspace.net/js/
JavaScript programs that perform weather calculations for humidity,
wind chill, heat index, and more.
National Weather Service Forecast Office—Boston
http://www.erh.noaa.gov/er/box/calculate2.html
Site for further study
ECB Surf Report: Weather and Climate
http://www.ecb.org/surf/weather.htm
This site contains a great list of weather and climate sites.
American Meteorological Society:
- The DataStreme Project
http://www.comet.ucar.edu/dstreme/
“The DataStreme Project is a major pre-college teacher enhancement
initiative of the American Meteorological Society (AMS). Its main goal
is the training of Weather Education Resource Teachers who will promote
the teaching of science, mathematics and technology using weather as a
vehicle, across the K-12 curriculum in their home school districts.”
- DataStreme Junction
http://www.comet.ucar.edu/dstreme/junction/
This page has a great list of Internet resources for teaching weather
to K-12 students.
Fun Site
Cricket Chirp Conversion
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/elp/wxcalc/cricketconvert.shtml
This conversion site is just for fun. This calculator will convert
cricket chirps (the number counted in 15 sec) into the approximate current
air temperature. It is from the El Paso National Weather Service Office
part of the National Climatic Data Center.
The Weather Frog
http://www.froggy.cc/
According to folklore in Old World Europe, a frog kept in a jar could forecast
the weather.
Mount Washington
Observatory: Arcade
http://www.mountwashington.org/discovery/arcade/
Online games and weather tidbits.
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