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Weather News

    MSNBC Weather
    British Storm
    Ohio Snowstorm
    Yahoo Weather
    Columbus Ohio snowstorm
    Accuweather
    Flood rainfall totals
    NASA global surface temperatures

Weather Centers

    National Weather Service Forecast Office - Albany, New York
    Storm Prediction Center this is the site for info about severe convective weather (i.e., thunderstorms, tornadoes, etc.)
    Hydrometeorological Prediction Center forecasts for precipitation amounts (QPF-quantitative precipitation forecasts)
    Department of Earth and Atmospheric Science, Univ. at Albany
    National Hurricane Center / Tropical Prediction Center
    CIMSS Tropical Cyclones
    Severe Weather Book Website
    Quicktime Movies
    Global Topography
    Jet Streams
    Storm Tracks

Satellite, Radar and other Weather Data (Middle Latitudes)

     RAP weather page    all things weather...my favorite site for surface data and satellite imagery
         Weather Underground    fairly comprehensive but more layperson oriented general weather site
           Weather Analysis Page - COD   excellent general weather, particularly satellite
         Unisys Weather   another general, not quite as good, weather page

Radar and satellite

    Intellicast U.S. radar loop
    Syracuse, New York Regional Loop by Intellicast   radar loop of the northeast U.S.<>
    Albany radar loop
    Hi Res Radar and Satellite Page   from COD page above

Interactive Weather Satellite Imagery
Global Satellite Composites
UK Satellite
Gibbs Satellite

Upper air and sounding data

    Northern Hemispheric 500 mb loops
    NCEP model analysis
    Upper-Air page: from RAP Weather
    Atmospheric Soundings
    Profiler data     Surface data

     FSL Surface data display
    NOAA New England High-Resolution Temperature Program
    Surface theta map
    Theta/mixing ratio     Dynamic Tropopause

    Mike Dickinson's DT animations
    DEAS DT animations
    Utah DT animations
    Greg Hakim's DT maps
    Andreas Dornbrack's Polar page

Miscellaneous

   NERFC Snow Information Page
    Snowcover
    National Data Buoy Center
    NODC Coastal Water Temperature Guide

Weather Forecast Models (Middle Latitudes)

NCEP models National Centers for Environmental Prediction, my first stop for standard models (GFS, etc.)

    e-WALL   Very comprehensive model site from Penn State
    WRF & MM5    mesoscale models
    NCAR-WRF    National Center for Atmospheric Research's mesoscale model
    SUNY Stony Brook MM5 Mesoscale Forecasts   excellent mesoscale model for Eastern U.S. complements of Dr. Brian Colle
    NCEP Model Time-Series   forecasted atmospheric cross-sections and time series, excellent for knowing when the snow will start falling
    Canadian model   nuff said
    Unisys Weather: ECMWF Model Forecasts    European 3-6 day model
    NCEP ensemble forecasts
    Short range ensemble forecasts
    Forecast Soundings
    Eta Precipitation Type Forecast Meteograms
    Teleconnection forecasts
    Met Office: Seasonal forecasts   courtesy of the British Meteorological Office

Tropical Cyclones

           CIMSS Tropical Cyclones   lots of good info and, in particular, satellite imagery of ongoing tropical cyclones
           National Hurricane Center / Tropical Prediction Center
           Naval Research Lab (NRL) Tropical Satellite page
           Paul Roundy's Tropical Cyclone forecasts Tropical cyclone probabilities out to 2 weeks
           Hurricane forecast tracks   NCEP/EMC cyclogenesis forecast tracks
           CSU tropical cyclone forecast tracks and intensity
           Tropical Cyclone Intensity and Track Forecasts
           Ocean water temperatures/Hurricane heat content
           Bob Hart's Cyclone Phase Diagrams

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El Nino/Southern Oscillation (ENSO)

           Tropical Atmosphere Ocean (TAO) project   El Nino information and data
           TAO Buoy Data display   plot Pacific Ocean SSTs, cross-sections and wind data
           ENSO information and forecasts
           Naval Research Lab (NRL) Tropical Satellite page

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Equatorial Waves and Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO)

           Outgoing Longwave Radiation (OLR) and Global Circulation Climate charts from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology
           OLR plots of MJO and convectively coupled equatiorial waves

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African Monsoon

African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis (AMMA) data from the Climate Prediction Center

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Climate/Global Warming

           Climate Diagnostics Center (CDC) plotting page
           National Climatic Data Center (NCDC)   archive of climate data
           NCDC Climate Data Directory more from NCDC
           Climate Prediction Center (CPC)
           Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
           NH Snowcover compared to Climatology
           Polar Sea Ice Coverage compared to Climatology
           NH polar sea ice coverage and anomaly
           NPR Climate Connections

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Historic Events Map Archives

           Climate Diagnostics Center (CDC) plotting page
           NCDC Map Archive
           NOAA Weather Map Project
           Model Initialization Archive
           Storm Prediction Center Archive

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Case Study Links

     Great Storm of 1987
          http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/education/secondary/students/1987.htm l
          http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/corporate/pressoffice/anniversary/storm1987.html
          http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/witness/october/16/newsid_3174000/3174374.stm
          http://www.bbc.co.uk/kent/content/image_galleries/1987_great_storm_gallery.shtml

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