WEATHER & CLIMATE SITES
With Lesson Plans and Activities
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WEATHER RELATED ELECTRONIC
PUBLICATIONS
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WEATHER RELATED SITES
NATURE OF THE ATMOSPHERE
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GENERAL WEATHER
- 13 Weather, http://www.index-site.com/weather.html
- Agribiz South American Weather Station, http://www.agribiz.com/weather/samfr.html
- Atlas of Global Climate Variables - Geophysical Fluid
Dynamics
Lab (GFDL), http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/DataMenus.pl?dataset=gfdl
- Automated Weather Source, http://aws.com/index.html
- Central Region Headquarters - National Weather Service, http://www.crh.noaa.gov/
- Climatic Change Campaign, http://www.panda.org/climate/
- Climatic Data, http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/ol/climate/climatedata.html
- CNN Weather, http://www.cnn.com/WEATHER/
<>- Current Weather Over the U.S., http://grads.iges.org/pix/wxmaps.html
- Doppler On Wheels, http://aaron.ou.edu/xband/index.html
- Dundee University, http://www.sat.dundee.ac.uk/auth.html
- Free Weather Stickers for Your Homepage! http://www.wunderground.com/geo/BannerPromo/US/NY/New_York_City.html
- Get/View Online Climatic Data, http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/ol/climate/climatedata.html
- Global Hydrology and Climate Center, http://www.ghcc.msfc.nasa.gov/ghcc_home.html
- Global Hydrology and Climate Center Lightning and
Atmospheric
Electricity
Research, http://thunder.msfc.nasa.gov/
- INTELLiCast, http://www.intellicast.com/
- La Jolla Surfing Weather Page, http://facs.scripps.edu/surf/weather.shtml
- Los Angeles/Oxnard Weather Service Office, http://www.nwsla.noaa.gov/
- National Water and Climate Center, http://www.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/
- Nottingham University, http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/meteosat/
- Ohio State Web Site, http://twister.sbs.ohio-state.edu/
- Oklahoma Climatological Survey, Educational Outreach, http://outreach.ocs.ou.edu/
- Oklahoma Climatological Survey-Related Projects, http://outreach.ocs.ou.edu/relatedprojects/
- Real Time Weather Data, http://www.rap.ucar.edu/weather/satellite/
- Sea Surface Temperature and Wind, http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/toga-tao/realtime.html
- Top Ten Weather Sites, http://www.top10links.com/news/weather.vote
- Travel Weather, http://www.intellicast.com/Travel/
- Tropical Weather, http://autobrand.wunderground.com:80/tropical/
- UBC Earth and Ocean Sciences, http://www.eos.ubc.ca/
- UMich WX Underground, http://cirrus.sprl.umich.edu/wxnet/
- The Underground Weather, http://groundhog.sprl.umich.edu/
- United States Climate Page, http://www.cdc.noaa.gov:80/~cas/Climo/polys/states.slow.html
- University of Hawaii Weather Server, http://lumahai.soest.hawaii.edu/
- USA Today Weather, http://www.usatoday.com/weather/wfront.htm
- USA Today Tropical Weather News, http://www.usatoday.com/weather/huricane/whur0.htm
- Weather and Climate, http://members.aol.com/bowermanb/weather.html
- Weather Information, http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/weather.html
- The Weather Page, http://www.eyesoftime.com./teacher/weather.htm
- World Climate, http://www.worldclimate.com/
- Yahoo Weather News, http://weather.yahoo.com/
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WEATHER IMAGES AND MAPS
- 3D Rendering of Global Clouds and
Aerosols, http://capita.wustl.edu/CAPITA/DataSets/MODIS/GlobFused/glob3d.html
- Atlantic hurricane Track Maps and image, http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/hurr/index.html
- Current Weather Maps, http://rainbow.ldgo.columbia.edu/weather.html
- Earth at a Glance, http://earthbulletin.amnh.org
- Freese-Notis Weather Map, http://www.weather.net/fn/kfd.advisory.html
- Interactive Weather Maps, http://wxp.atms.purdue.edu/
- The Latest Cool Images from SPC, http://www.spc.noaa.gov/coolimg/index.html
- Live Weather Images, http://www.weatherimages.org/
- NOAA Phot Collection, http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/
- Phymouth State College Meteorology Program Cloud Boutique, http://vortex.plymouth.edu/clouds.html
- U.S. Weather maps, http://www.mit.edu:8001/usa.html
- United States Interactive Climate Pages, http://www.cdc.noaa.gov:80/USclimate/
- Weather 24, http://weather24.com/
- Weather Eye, http://weathereye.kgan.com/
- The Weather Channel, http://www.weather.com/twc/homepage.twc
- The Weather Channel's South American Satellite Weather Map,
http://www.weather.com/weather/sat/sasat_450x284.html
- Weather Maps, http://www.weather.com/weather/maps/
- Weather Net, http://cirrus.sprl.umich.edu/wxnet/
- Weather Post, http://www.weatherpost.com/
- Weather Research Center, http://www.wxresearch.com/
- Weather Underground, http://groundhog.sprl.umich.edu/
- The Weatherman, http://www.infinityweb.com/weatherman/
- Weather Photos from Space, http://vortex.plymouth.edu/usamap.html
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METEOROLOGY
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LESSON
PLANS
AND ACTIVITIES FOR WEATHER
- Climate (Gr-4), http://ejw.i8.com/geog/97/climate.htm
- Climate Mapping with Really Wild Animals (Gr MS), http://www.cla.sc.edu/cege/lplan/Subject/10.html
- Franklin's Forecast, http://sln.fi.edu/weather/index.html
- Hourly View of the USA with Exercises. http://www.cl.ais.net/rlevine/
- How NASA Studies Air , http://kids.mtpe.hq.nasa.gov/air.htm
- Making a Weather Station / Miami Museum of Science, http://www.miamisci.org/hurricane/weatherstation.html
- NOVA Online Teacher's Guide Lightning,
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/teachersguide/lightning/
- Regional Climates (Gr 6), http://faldo.atmos.uiuc.edu/w_unit/LESSONS/regional.climates.html
- Severe Weather: Hurricanes, http://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/sevweath/sevweath.html
- Temperature Inversion (Gr 8), http://www.tnrcc.state.tx.us/air/monops/lessons/templesson.html
- Understanding World Climates (Gr 5), http://www.coreknowledge.org/CKproto2/resrcs/lessons/5CLIMATE.htm
- Watch Those Clouds (Gr MS), http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/scripts/fcit/tnt/lp.idc?lesson_id=LP002
- Weather (Gr 4-5), http://www.lessonplanspage.com/themunit.html
- Weather/Clouds (Gr 1-6), http://www.teachers.net/lessons/posts/190.html
- Weather: A Guide to Internet Resources, http://www.libsci.sc.edu/miller/Krauss.htm
- Weather Here and There, http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/edu/RSE/RSEred/WeatherHome.html
- Weather in the USA (GR 3), http://ejw.i8.com/geog/98/weath.htm
- Weather On-Line, http://www.weatheronline.com/
- Weather or Not (Gr 7), http://www.coreknowledge.org/CKproto2/resrcs/lessons/798Weather.htm
- Weather or Not? http://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/weathernot/weathernot.html
- Weather Pictures, http://www.eduplace.com/ss/act/weather.html
- Weather Rain or Shine, http://www.rainorshine.com/
- Weather Thematic Unit (Gr 4-5), http://www.teachers.net/lessons/posts/21.html
- Weather Unit (K-2), http://www.libsci.sc.edu/miller/Weather.htm
- The Weather Unit, http://faldo.atmos.uiuc.edu/w_unit/weather.html
- What’s the Temp (Gr MS)? http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/scripts/fcit/tnt/lp.idc?lesson_id=LP003
- What’s the Wind Direction (Gr MS), http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/scripts/fcit/tnt/lp.idc?lesson_id=LP004
- Wind, http://sln.fi.edu/tfi/units/energy/wind.html
- The Wind: Friend or Foe, http://cspace.unb.ca/nbco/pigs/recycle/wind.html
- Winter Solstice (Family Education), http://familyeducation.com/topic/front/0,1156,1-4205,00.html
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WEATHER
QUIZZES
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER CATEGORIES
GENERAL HAZARDS
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HURRICANES AND COASTAL
FLOODING
- FAQ: Hurricanes, Typhoons, and Tropical Cyclones, http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/tcfaq/tcfaqHED.html
- George's Hurricane Page, http://www.citi-net.com/george/hurricane.html
- Hurrican Hunters, http://www.hurricanehunters.com/
- Hurricane Impacts on the Coastal Environment, http://marine.usgs.gov/fact-sheets/hurricane/hurricane-txt.html
- Hurricane (Downloadable) Software, http://www.hurricanesoftware.com
- Hurricane: Storm Science, http://www.miamisci.org/hurricane/
- Hurricane Warning, http://welcome.to/HurricaneWarning
- Hurricanes, http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/hurr/home.rxml
- National Hurricane Center Tropical Prediction Center, http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/
- Unofficial Hurricane and Weather Information, http://www.giant.net/~hrobins/
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TORNADOES AND
THUNDERSTORMS
- The Fujita Scale, http://tornadoproject.com/fujitascale/fscale.htm
- Hail Storms, http://www.chaseday.com/hail.htm
- Historical Tornado Data by State, http://tornadoproject.com/states/states.htm
- Lightning Stalker, http://www.gopbi.com/lightningstalker/
- Lightning, the Shocking Story, http://www.nationalgeographic.com/lightning/index.html
- Questions and Answers About Lightning, http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/edu/ltg/
- Questions and Answers About Tornadoes, http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/edu/tornado/
- Shelter From the Storm, http://www.execpc.com/~bkopp/
- Tornado Project, http://www.tornadoproject.com/
- Tornado Project Online, http://cdiac.esd.ornl.gov/cdiac/glossary.html
- Tornadoes and Tornado Alley, http://geography.miningco.com/library/weekly/aa041398.htm?pid=2820&cob=home
- Tropical Cyclone Pages, http://www.edwards.cc/tcp/main.shtml
- USA Today Tornado Information Index, http://www.usatoday.com/weather/wtwist0.htm
- Virtual Tour of Tornadoes, http://www.field-guides.com/tornado/tour.htm
- Wind: Our Fierce Friend / Franklin Institute, http://www.fi.edu/tfi/units/energy/
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SNOW, AND AVALANCHES
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FLOODS
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EL NINO AND LA NINA
- Answers to La Niña Frequently Asked Questions, http://www.elnino.noaa.gov/lanina_new_faq.html
- Australian Bureau of Meteorology El Niño Info, http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/glossary/elnino.shtml
- Climate Diagnostics Center, http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/
- Effects of El Niño on Streamflow, Lake Level, and
Landslide Potential, http://geochange.er.usgs.gov/sw/changes/natural/elnino/
- El Niño and Climate Prediction, http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/toga-tao/el-nino-report.html
- El Niño and La Niña Resources on the Internet,
http://www.coaps.fsu.edu/lib/elninolinks/
- El Niño Rules, http://whyfiles.news.wisc.edu/050el_nino/index.html
- El Niño Theme Page: Accessing Distributed Information
Related
to El Niño, http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/toga-tao/el-nino/nino-home.html
- El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Information, http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/ENSO/
- FEMA El Niño Loss Reduction Center, http://www.fema.gov/nwz97/elnino.htm
- NOAA La Niña Page, http://www.elnino.noaa.gov/lanina.html
- NOAA resources relating to El Nino/La Nina, http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/ol/climate/elnino/elnino.html
- Nova Online: Tracking El Niño, http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elnino/textindex.html
- Special Climate and Weather Summary, http://www.publicaffairs.noaa.gov/climate/cliedit.html
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Initially Created: 11-23-98
Revised: 12-17-98
Last Updated: 12-28-05
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- Introduction to Atmospheric Chemistry,
http://www.science.yorku.ca/cac/intro.html
- Lightning Detection from Space,
http://wwwghcc.msfc.nasa.gov/lisotd_old.html
- Climate Prediction Center monthly and 6-10 day climate
prediction
maps for the U.S. http://nic.fb4.noaa.gov/products/predictions/
- Climate Prediction Center, http://nic.fb4.noaa.gov/
- CNN South American Current Weather,
http://space.rice.edu/~rss/weather/samer.html
- Phil's Place - Weather, http://mav.net/phil/weather.shtml
- Weekly Regional Analyses, http://nic.fb4.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/regional_monitoring/
- The Weather Page,
http://pages.prodigy.net/jmmault/weather.htm
- Weather World 2010 Project, http://covis.atmos.uiuc.edu/guide
- Alaska's Climate Zones (Gr 6-8), http://ericir.syr.edu/Virtual/Lessons/Social_St/Geography/GGR0046.html
- Elementary Weather Units (Gr 2-6), http://covis.atmos.uiuc.edu/guide/html/elementary.html
- Snow Pits (Gr 7-12),
gopher://gopher.informns.k12.mn.us:70/00/mn-k12/mvnwr/lessons/sec/05%20Snow%20Pits
- Snow Stories (Gr 4-6), gopher://gopher.informns.k12.mn.us:70/00/mn-k12/mvnwr/lessons/elem/12%20Snow%20Stories
- Index of Weather Projects (9-12),
http://nesen.unl.edu/weather/
- Tornadogenesis, http://mrd3.mmm.ucar.edu/~eras/www/MyPage/Tornadogenesis/TGenesisV2.html
- Idaho Snow Surveys, http://idsnow.id.nrcs.usda.gov/
- El Niño and the National Landslide Hazard Outlook for
1997-1998,
http://geohazards.cr.usgs.gov/html_files/landslides/usgsnoaa/index.html
- Climate Variations Bulletin, http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/publications/cvb/cvb.html
- Allentown Weather Center, http://www.ugems.psu.edu/~owens/weather.html
- California Winter Weather Page,
http://www.nws.mbay.net/winter.html
- Extreme Weather Sourcebook,
http://www.dir.ucar.edu/esig/HP_roger/sourcebook/
- Dan's Wild Weather Page, http://www.whnt19.com/kidwx/
- Historical Weather Facts for the United States, http://www.awc-kc.noaa.gov/wxfact.html
- Intellicast World Weather for South America,
http://www.intellicast.com/weather/samerica/
- Millennium Weather Tropical Page, http://www2.smart.net/~gdmgeg/tropical.html
- Monthly Temperature Anomalies, http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/onlineprod/ghcnmcdwmonth/form.html
- National Weather Office Service Office, Guam, http://tgsv5.nws.noaa.gov/pr/guam/
- National Weather Service, http://www.nws.fsu.edu/
- NRL Monterey Online Projects, http://www.nrlmry.navy.mil/projects/projects.html
- Scientific American Turn! Turn! Turn!
http://www.sciam.com/explorations/052096explorations.html
- Weather--Environment Canada, http://www.ec.gc.ca/weather_e.html
- West Coast Regional Site, http://squall.sfsu.edu/
- WWW Weather Links, http://www.ugems.psu.edu/~owens/metlink.html
- Physical Geography: Weather Images & Diagrams, http://www.for.nau.edu/~alew/ggr346/maplinks.html
- Tornado Photo Gallery, http://tqjunior.advanced.org/4232/photo.htm
- University of Reading, http://typhoon.rdg.ac.uk/Data/Global/global.html
- The INPE Meteorological IR Satellite images,
http://yabae.cptec.inpe.br/meteoimages/homep.html
- A Meteorology site with great links that work intermittantly,
http://www.ugems.psu.edu/~owens/WWW_Virtual_Library/
- Air Pressure Demonstration(Gr 7-12),
http://www.educast.com/arc/lp/sci/9711037s.html
- Athena K-12 Curriculum Weather, http://www.athena.ivv.nasa.gov/curric/weather/index.html
- Dan's Wild Wild Weather Page / Interactive for Kids, http://www.whnt19.com/kidwx/index.html
- Deserts (Gr 6),
http://www.coreknowledge.org/CKproto2/resrcs/lessons/698Deserts.htm
- Lightening, http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~coalitn/sciedoutreach/funexperiments/agesubject/lessons/newton/lightning.html
- Meteorology Matters Weather Unit (Gr 4), http://www.coreknowledge.org/CKproto2/resrcs/lessons/4meteorology.htm
- Rain or Shine (Gr 4-6), http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~coalitn/sciedoutreach/funexperiments/agesubject/caps.html
- Snow Activities,
http://www.teelfamily.com/activities/snow/activities.html
- Snow Links,
http://www.teelfamily.com/activities/snow/links.html
- Thunder, http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~coalitn/sciedoutreach/funexperiments/agesubject/lessons/beakman/thunder.html
- Tracking a Hurricane (Gr 6),
http://tlc.ai.org/lessons/hurrilp.htm
- Weather Changes (Gr 2),
http://www.unc.edu/depts/ed/elemeduc/planbin1/awollin.htm
- What is Wind, http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~coalitn/sciedoutreach/funexperiments/agesubject/lessons/other/whatwind.html
- Wind Blow, http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~coalitn/sciedoutreach/funexperiments/agesubject/lessons/newton/windblow.html
- Questions and Quizzes,
http://www.nwlink.com/~wxdude/question.html
- Weather Trivia Contest,
http://www.kwtv.com/trivia/garytriv.htm
- Storm Chaser Home Page,
http://taiga.geog.niu.edu/chaser/chaser.html
- Storm Prediction Center, http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/spc/
- All About Hurricanes,
http://www.yatcom.com/neworl/weather/hurricane.html
- Hurricane Trailhead, http://www.field-guides.com/hurricane/hurr.htm
- Welcome to Hurricanes,
http://www.tramline.com/tours/hurricane/
- Are You Ready for a Tornado, http://www.redcross.org/disaster/safety/tornados.html
- Backgrounder: Tornadoes, http://www.fema.gov/library/tornado.htm
- Chase One: Storm Chaser Page, http://www.geocities.com/~chase_one/
- Cyclones, http://www.ema.gov.au/ema-sc.htm
- Tornado Field Trip, http://www.field-guides.com/tornado/tour.htm
- Tornado Safety Tips Brochure,
http://www.fema.gov/library/tornadof.htm
- Twisters: Destruction from the Sky, http://tqjunior.advanced.org/4232/
- Weekly Cycles of Air Pollutants, Precipitation, and Tropical
Cyclones
in the Coastal NW Atlantic Region,
http://www.asu.edu/clas/geography/nature/
- Snow Information Page, http://sunburn.uwaterloo.ca:80/~srfassna/snow/
- Snow Report, http://weather.interzine.com/iski/
- Snow: Technical Reports,
http://www.crrel.usace.army.mil/techpub/CRREL_Reports_web/html_files/Cat_A.html
- Snotel, http://www.wrcc.sage.dri.edu/snotel.html
- El Niño and California Precipitation,
http://twister.sfsu.edu/elnino/elnino.html
- El Niño Conditions Interactive Map, http://www.crseo.ucsb.edu/geos/s13.html