Upper air maps
Surface maps
Current satellite and radar
Vertical motion QG diagnostics from the CMC model, courtesy Thomas Galarneau of CIMSS/NSSL
Mesoscale analysis
SkewTs
Severe weather outlook
International weather
Archive information
- Current upper air maps, University of Wyoming
- Storm Prediction Center upper air maps
- Northern Hemisphere 500-mb map, Canadian Weather Service
- Northern Hemisphere 500-mb map, wxmaps.org
- Northern Hemisphere 500-mb map, Penn State. (currently not working)
Surface maps
- Current surface chart
- Interactive surface chart
- North American surface chart which includes marine obs
- Link to a suite of land/sea surface charts (The NWS "unified" surface analysis)
- Current TAFB analysis
- Different NOAA surface charts
- Temperature
- Dewpoint
- Theta-E
- COCORAS precipitation observations
Current satellite and radar
- National radar
- GIS radar version (current conditions as well as archives)
- NSSL's Multi-Radar Multi-Sensor (MRMS) product
- Northern Hemisphere Infrared grey scale (Plymouth University)
- Northern Hemisphere infrared
- Northern Hemisphere water vapor
- Northern Hemisphere visible
Vertical motion QG diagnostics from the CMC model, courtesy Thomas Galarneau of CIMSS/NSSL
- Vertical motion associated with vertical change of vorticity advection from 900 to 500 mb
- Vertical motion associated with Laplacian of temperature advection at 700 mb
- Vertical motion combining two terms above from Omega equation
- Vertical motion from Trenberth thermal wind diagnostic at 700 mb
- Q-vectors at 700-mb
Mesoscale analysis
SkewTs
- WXCaster website
- SPC website
- University of Wyoming
- GOES-derived
- POES-derived: 1. Continental US; 2. Global (click on subsections)
Severe weather outlook
International weather
- Europe weather maps --- analysis and forecast (courtesy of Free University of Berlin's Dept of Geoscience)
- Great Britain forecast charts (from UKMET)
- West Pacific forecast charts (courtesy Hong Kong Observatory)
- Additional sites on weathercsi.net
Archive information
- Raw radar data
- NWS watches, warnings, and advisories
- Archived images
- Amazon AWS access to Level 2 radar data through an agreement with NOAA's "Big Data Project" (registration required)
- SPC storm reports
- Weather surface map archives
- Daily weather maps back to 1871. Link to a talk on the history of weather maps here
- Archived METARs (courtesy Plymouth State University)
- Archived COCORAS precipitation reports
- NEXRAD QPE CDR (courtesy NCEI)
- Satellite archives (University of Wisconsin)
- NOAA 21-day satellite archive
- Plymouth State University weather archives (surface, satellite, radar, upper air, and model)
- Colorado State University links to archives (courtesy Andrea Schumacher; some links may be old)
- NCEI monthly climate reports