Links for Meteorology

Courses
Astronomy
Meteorology
Geology

Links
Astronomy
Meteorology
Geology

Climate

• Climate Prediction Center
• Climatology Working Group at the U of M
• Mark Seeley WeatherTalk
• HydroClim Minnesota from DNR
• National Climatic Data Center
• Recent Climatology for Minnesota

Current Conditions

• ARCC                 max and min
• Cambridge airport
• Latest Minnesota observations list
• Servers with access to conditions across the country
      --DuPage
      --Ohio State--surface plots (click Surface)
          --Lots of data
      --Wyoming   also
• Temperatures, heat index, wind chill, frost-freeze warnings
• Jet stream
• Air quality
      National
       Local -- MPCA
      Weather channel allergy tracker
  

NWS Forecast Discussions--technical insider forecast info

• Minnesota
      Minneapolis      Duluth   La Crosse      Sioux Falls
  

Forecasts

• Coon Rapids        
    --NWS         
    --DarkSky
• Cambridge  NWS
• Minnesota  NWS
• SCSU local forecast page
• Fronts
    --WPC  
    --NCAR
    --Intellicast
     --Hydrometeorological Prediction Center
• Winter weather NWS
• WPC experimental chart
• Snow forecasts from Weather Underground

History

• NOAA
• SPC--bottom of page
• METARs in past
• last 3 days at MSP
• Precip past 24 hrs and past week
• Radar loop of past

Hurricanes

• National Hurricane Center   North America
• Weather Underground
  --tropical surface maps
• NASA
• Hurricane interactive

Hydrology

• Upper Mississippi Basin river level forecasts
• Upper Mississippi Basin current obs
• NWS North Central River Forecast Center

Lightning

• Recent strikes
    --from Blitzortung world
• Short term prediction
    --NOAA Current lightning and convection probablility
    --in Canada
• Lightning safety
    --NOAA
    --Env Canada
• Photos from National Lightning Safety Institute
• YouTube  Compilation   and single strike

Model Output (NWS Numerical Forecasts)

• Detailed output
    --UCAR
    --Ohio State
    --Wyoming
     --DuPage
     --Pivotal
    --Instant
• Minneapolis
    --Graphical forecasts NWS
    --7-day meteogram  MSP   US
    --MOS raw Ohio State
• Archive
    --7 days  Colostate

News

• Eureka alert Atmos
• Eureka alert Met
• Eureka alert Earth Science

Past 24 hour weather

• MSP climate summary
• Other US cities
  --Wyoming--meteogram or listing
    --MSP meteorgram
    --MSP METARs
    --MSP list

Radar

• Twin Cities Radar
     --via NWS  NEXRAD
• National Radar
    --via Intellicast
        --NEXRAD
        --Heights radar summary
        --Just radar
        --Regional radar
        --Radar loop of past
    --Weather Channel
    --AccuWeather
• Regional summaries, loops, US
    --NWS Alaska, \Hawaii, and others
• Canada
    --Environment Canada

Satellite Images

• Servers w/ several images incl. visible, infrared, and water vapor
    --Weather Underground
    --College of DuPage
    --Illinois
    --Ohio State--scroll on Satellite
    --Colorado State     Tropical          GOES
• NASA
• NCAR
• Latest temp from IR satellite

Severe Weather

• NOAA Meteorological Development Lab
    --Current lightning and convection probablility
• NWS watches and warnings in effect
• Severe weather reports--Last hour, today, previous days
• Storm Prediction Center
    --Convective Outlooks
    --Hourly Mesoscale Analysis
    --Overlay map
• Ohio State site
• DuPage site    
  
• Weather warnings in Europe
• Cloud Appreciation Society
• NWS MSP past

Snow

• Local winter weather forecasts
• National winter weather forecasts
• National Snow and Ice Data Center
• Snow depth map
• Snow crystal photographs
• Great lakes ice conditions

Soundings

• National
    --Wyoming
    --Ohio State--skew T only
    --DuPage

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

Surface Maps

• General map
    --Weather Channel
    --Intellicast
    --Ohio State
    --North America WPC
• Contour maps (colored bands)    
    --Illlinois (pressure with temp, dewpoint, wind dir, satellite)
• Good maps from Ohio State--scroll on Surface
  
• Station models
    --Minnesota and West
    --Minnesota and East
    --Ohio State--scroll on Surface
• Wind maps
    --World    U.S.
• Archive
    --North America and U.S.
• Weather Underground
• 3hr press change--scroll to change
• 24 hr temp change

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
    --NWS Central Region Headquarters
• Intellicast
• The Weather Channel
• AccuWeather
• Environment Canada
• St. Cloud State local forecast page
• MPR
  
  These sites are for true weather weenies 
• Ohio State
• College of DuPage
• Wetzel Winter Forecast info
• U of Wyoming Weather Web
• Links from Penn State

Area Colleges with 4-year Meteorology Degrees

• University of Wisconsin-Madison

• Iowa State University

• South Dakota School of Mines

• St. Cloud State

• University of North Dakota

Labs

• 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
• Lab 11
  --model output Ohio State   Pivot
  --24 hr temp change
• Lab 6 Stability
  --Lifted index        Instant Maps        
        backup1       backup2
  --UKentucky maps
  --

Videos

• snow south  Daily  1:45 in
• Terre Haute   daily
• Snow in Japan   other
• Weather bomb    other
• Train derails
• channel 9 video    other
• Odd temps    other
• Bloops
• Antarctica Condition 1   other
  --Walking to work    other
• John Oliver Science
• fire tornado in slow motion    other
• fire tornado in Alberta
• extra credit Jake   other
• entrep
• tornado video classics    other
• pig spleen forecast
• winter forecast
• Tornado drone footage
• Tornado intense another
• Drawing

Other

• John Cassano's Antarctica blog
• John Cassano's Arctic blog

Climate Change

• Articles
  --cotton
  --coal mine dust
  --Colorado River discharge
  --Sahara grown
  --mega drought
  --Climate change visualizations
  --corn growing changes climate
  --biggest rain events
  --Snowpack decline
  --Precip in 12 days

Articles

• Tenn   deaths     more      more
• Tornado formation from ground up
• June Bacon-Bercey  first woman TV meteorologist
• weathercasters women
• Storm Dennis
•   --plane       flooding
• BBC forecast
• locusts      more        
• Elk Mound tornado
• The Great Whirl
• Coronavirus