Upper air maps
Surface maps
Current radar
Current satellite
Vertical motion QG diagnostics courtesy Thomas Galarneau of CIMSS/NSSL
Mesoscale analysis
SkewTs
Impactful weather outlooks
Hydrology
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
Surface maps
- Current surface chart
- Interactive surface chart
- Ocean map charts
- 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 radar
- National radar
- GIS radar version (current conditions as well as archives)
- NSSL's Multi-Radar Multi-Sensor (MRMS) product
- Weatherwise site . See this YouTube video for usage .
Current satellite
Vertical motion QG diagnostics courtesy Thomas Galarneau of CIMSS/NSSL
- Dr. Galarneau's general QG diagnostics
- 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
Impactful weather outlooks
Hydrology
International weather
- Europe weather maps --- analysis and forecast (courtesy of Free University of Berlin's Dept of Geoscience)
- West Pacific forecast charts (courtesy Hong Kong Observatory)
- Additional sites on weathercsi.net
Archive information
- Raw radar data
- NWS watches, warnings, and advisories
- Archived radar images
- 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
- Satellite archives (University of Wisconsin)
- NOAA satellite archives
- 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
- NWS Damage Assessment Toolkit (DAT). This is a GIS-based framework used by meteorologists to collect, analyze, and map post-storm damage, particularly from tornadoes and convective winds. The tornado assessments include EF scale info.
- NOAA GeoPlatform (use link at: https://noaa.noaa.hub.arcgis.com/hub.arcgis.com/ then maybe use hamburger menu)
- NCEI Climate Data Online
- Amazon AWS may have access to weather and climate data