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The NOAA Weather Page

• NOAA Home Page including:
  • Plans for upgrading the National Weather Service
  • General information on NOAA programs and offices
• NOAA National Weather Service
  • Arkansas-Red Basin River Forecast Center
  • National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center measures snow cover in the United States and Canada
  • National Weather Service Office, Seattle, Washington
  • National Weather Service Office, Tallahassee, Florida
  • Southeast Agricultural Weather Service Center including:
    • Current US Radar Image
    • Latest US Satellite Picture (infrared) with Radar Echoes Overlayed
    • Current Temperatures across North America
    • Weather Map Symbol Explanation Chart
    • many other weather and agricultural products
  • Southwest Agricultural Weather Service Center
• NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory (FSL)
• NOAA National Climatic Data Center
• NOAA Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) Archive at the NOAA National Geophysical Data Center including: -- includes sample imagery on the following:
  • Aurora
  • Biomass Burning
  • City Lights at Night
  • Hurricanes and Tropical Storms
  • Snow and Ice
• Paleoenvironmental Records of Past Climate Change
• Great Lakes Forecasting System/Ohio State University, four times a day nowcasts (water temperature, currents, etc.) for Lake Erie

Many sites on the Internet have weather information derived from NOAA products. The following is a list of weather related services that could be found on the Internet. If you know of a service that we have missed, please send the URL and, if possible, a short description of the service to help@esdim.noaa.gov. Thanks! Of course, there are no guarantees that these services are working!

Note! Good starting points:

• Topic Guide from the USENET Frequently Asked Questions on Meteorology.
• The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Meteorology

World Wide Web Servers

• University of Maryland, Dept. of Meteorology's EARTHCAST System including:
  • Forecasts for Europe, North and South America
  • Nowcasts
  • Hindcasts
  • Ozone hole, Volcanoes, Sea Surface Temperature and more!
• The University of Illinois Weather World
• Oregon State University Climate Services
• U.S. and Russian Weather -- from Friends and Partners (Russian & American) Information Service
• Imperial College, London -- Todays weather map
• Bloomington (Indiana) Weather brought to you by the Center for Innovative Computer Applications (CICA)
• MIT Weather Gateway
• MIT Weather Radar Laboratory
• Deutsches Kimarechenzentrum -- DKRZ, German Climate Computer Centre -- in German
• Australian National University (ANU) Weather & Global Monitoring
• National Center for Atmospheric Research
• USENET FAQs on Meteorology
• Satellite Images from Nexor (United Kingdom)
• UK Weather
• Rob's Multimedia Lab -- Weather..You Like It Or Not -- Washington, DC
• Institute of Meteorology, Free University of Berlin
• Institut für Meteorologie der Freien Universität Berlin -- List of Weather Related Conferences
• Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) Auxiliary Data Activities
• Michigan State University Current Weather Maps/Movies
• Purdue University WXP Weather Server
• MIT/Lincoln Labs Weather Sensing Group
• California Weather
• Einet Galaxy/Meteorology and Climatology
• Canadian Climate and Meteorological Data
• University of Hawai'i -- Hawai'i weather and surf, and tropical storm tracks
• Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms -- at the University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
• Green Lane on the Information Highway in Atlantic Canada. A wide variety of regional and national environmental information, including the latest weather data, featuring satellite photos, radar images and prognostic charts.
• World Meteorological Organization (WMO)

Gopher

• Ohio State University Atmospheric Sciences Program -- Textural weather observations and forecasts and frequently updated graphics files
• Antarctica Meteorology Research Center
• Polar Images
• Florida State University's Meteorology Gopher
• Minnesota Climatology Working Group Gopher
• Purdue University WXP (Weather Processor)
• University of Minnesota Weather Gopher
• NCAR's Gopher
• Australian National University's Weather Gopher
• National Weather Service Forecasts at U. Minnesota
• The UofI Weather Machine
• U. of Wisconsin Space Science & Engineering Center
• University of Michigan Weather Underground
• Japanese Weather
• Canadian Weather Forecasts
• Weather in Croatia & Europe

Telnet

• Friends and Partners (Russian & American) Information Service -- includes weather information
• University of Michigan WEATHER UNDERGROUND
• North Carolina State University Weather Underground (requires X-Windows to run)
• Southeast Weather Underground
• Weather Service for Australia
• NASA's NSSDC NODIS system
• Information on Cleaning up after Floods
• Meteo-Window Before using this system, send mail to meteo-window@csp.it with the numerical address of your X-Windows screen.
• Australian Weather Reports

Finger

Note! These can take quite a bit of time to run.

• Gray's Atlantic Seasonal Hurricane Forecast
• Hourly Aurora Activity Report
• Daily Solar Geophysical Reports
• Hourly Solar Geophysical Reports

FTP

• SunSITE at the Imperial College, London
  • METEOSAT-4 and METEOSAT-3 images
  • Computer Aided Learning in Meteorology software
• National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
• USENET Frequently Asked Questions for Weather
  • from MIT
  • from UUNET -- These files are compressed!
• Images from UCAR
• AVHRR images from University of Hawaii
• SST Data from AVHRR on NOAA-11, NOAA-12
• GOES vis/IR images of North, Central America
• NOAA Polar Orbiters HRPT
• NOAA-11 Images of the Northeast US
• Weather Info from NASA

WAIS

• The WEATHER server