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Climate

Climate Prediction Center
--Seasonal outlooks
--More outlooks
Climatology Working Group at the U of M
including the Minnesota state climatology office
General Climate data
National Climatic Data Center
Current El Nino conditions from NOAA

Current Conditions (observations)

ARCC
--max and min
Cambridge airport
Latest Minnesota observations
--alternate site
Servers with access to conditions across the country
    DuPage
    Ohio State--surface plots
    Ohio State--state obs
    Wyoming

NWS Forecast Discussions--technical insider forecast info

Minnesota
Minneapolis
Duluth
Wisconsin
    La Crosse
    Green Bay
    Milwaukee
Iowa
Des Moines
Quad Cities
South Dakota
    Sioux Falls
    Aberdeen
    Rapid City
North Dakota
Bismarck
Grand Forks
Nebraska
    Omaha
    Hastings
    North Platte

Forecasts

National Weather Service Public
Coon Rapids
      Point NWS forecast
Cambridge
      Point NWS forecast
Minnesota
      state NWS forecast
National
      Ohio State
Fronts
--Future fronts from Intellcast
--12 hours --24 hours --36 hours --48 hours
--24-hour front forecasts from Wyoming
--Hydrometeorological Prediction Center
Meteorological Development Laboratory
--Precip and lightning forecasts for the next 3 hours

History

Image Archive from Unisys
Surface maps in the past from Wyoming

Hurricanes

Hydrology

Upper Mississippi Basin river level forecasts
River Forecast Center discussion

Lightning

Recent strikes from Intellicast
Recent strikes in Canada
NOAA
--Lightning safety
--photos
--damage photos

NWS Numerical Model Output Forecasts

Minneapolis meteograms
NGM model
Detailed output
    Select from Unisys (menu on left side)
    Select from UCAR (nice pics)
    Select from Ohio State
    Select from Wyoming
NWS Graphics
NGM MOS
Graphical forecasts
MOS
Ohio State

Past 24 hour weather

Meteogram of past 24 hours at MSP
MSP climate summary
Other US cities
    Wyoming--meteogram or listing
    Unisys
    Ohio State--page down
Image Archive
Climatology for Minnesota
West Texas Mesonet meteograms

Radar

Twin Cities Radar
--via NWS
     NEXRAD
--via Intellicast
     NEXRAD
     Regional radar summary (very good)
     Regional radar loop
     Regional Java loop
     Estimated precipitation
     Radial velocity (to see rotation)
--KSTP radar
--KARE radar
  --WCCO radar
--KMSP radar (toward bottom)
National Radar
     Intellicast summary (very good)
     Intellicast Radar with precip type
         --Loop
         --Closeup (pick area)
      Weather Channel
     AccuWeather
Regional summaries, loops, US
Unisys
Canada
Environment Canada

Satellite Images

Servers w/ several images incl. visible, infrared, and water vapor
     Unisys (loops and regional)
     Illinois
     MSP NWS regional
     Ohio State
     College of DuPage
     Colorado State
         --Tropical
         --GOES
NASA (a TON of images!)
NCAR (GOES-10, GOES-12, others)
World satellite views

Severe Weather

Watches and warnings in effect
NWS
Map from Intellicast
Severe weather reports--Last hour, today, previous days
Storm Prediction Center
Hourly Mesoscale Analysis
Overlay map
Ohio State site has much information, including:
Lifted indexes
Weather warnings in Europe
Alternate site
--Graphics and discussion
Cloud Appreciation Society

Snow

National Snow and Ice Data Center
Snow crystal photographs
Wilson Bentley, the Snowflake Man

Soundings

National
    Wyoming
    Unisys
    Ohio State--skew T only
    DuPage

Surface Maps

General map
    Weather Channel (fronts, highs & lows, radar)
    Unisys (fronts, highs & lows, satellite, radar)
    Intellicast
    Fronts only--North America
    Ohio State
Contour maps (colored bands)
Unisys (temperature, dewpoint, and many more)
Illlinois (pressure with temp, dewpoint, wind dir, satellite)
Good maps from Ohio State
(streamlines,convergence, heat index, wind chill, and the usual)
Weather channel menus
From Home page , mostly forecasts
From map listings
Station models
Minnesota and West
Minnesota and East

Upper Air Maps

Current data
     List from Unisys
     List from Wyoming
     List from Ohio State
Contour maps (colored bands)
Unisys (500 mb, prec water, LI, and many more)

Weather Servers
If you want more information, maps, and so on, check out these sites.

National Weather Service (NWS)
--Twin Cities National Weather Service office
--Quick menu for Twin Cities
--NWS Central Region Headquarters
--NWS offices around the country
Intellicast
The Weather Channel
AccuWeather
Environment Canada
St. Cloud State local forecast page
TV weather
--KSTP
--KARE
--KMSP
--WCCO
MPR

These sites are for true weather weenies
Unisys
Ohio State
College of DuPage
NOAA Operational Significant Imagery Server
Polar weather
Wetzel Winter Forecast info
National Weather Association links page
U of Wyoming Weather Web

Study help

University of Illinois online guides
--Helper index (short descriptions of topics and terms)
University of Wisconsin
--Online activities
Tutorial from Iowa State on Clouds and Storms

Temporary

Chart of sun's path in the sky for anywhere on the Earth
Incoming solar radiation exercise
IR cloud exercise 1
IR cloud exercise 2
Visible satellite exercise
Geo lab link--earthquakes
--Create earthquakes
--Look at recent quakes
--Plate boundaries one and two
TOMS ozone
Death by hail
--9th century
--article
Ice meteors
--journal
Surface ozone forecasts
Snow rollers
Weather driven demand
Perception
Films on Demand
John Cassano's blog

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