Archive-name: meteorology/weather-data
Last-modified: 21 Oct 1996

Recent changes:

  ==within last two weeks==
Updated <URL:http://www.phy.uqam.ca/> to remove port 2000 references

  ==within last four weeks==
Added NOAA GOES site <URL:http://www.goes.noaa.gov/> to satellite data section
Added <URL:http://goeshp.wwb.noaa.gov/special.html> NOAA archive of severe
  weather imagery to severe weather section
Added comment to satellite data section referencing the satellite data
  section in the research data part of the FAQ
Updated references to uoknor.edu sites to new domain name ou.edu
Updated Weather Scratch URL to <URL:http://www.wxscratch.com>


This article is copyright (c) 1995 by Ilana Stern.  It may be freely
distributed for non-commercial purposes only, provided that this copyright 
notice and the instructions on retrieving a current copy are not removed.  

If the date in the headers of the document you're reading
is more than a month old, you should retrieve a current copy.
Current copies of this FAQ series can be obtained by anonymous FTP at
<URL:ftp://ncardata.ucar.edu/other_resources/meteorology-faq/> or
in hypertext form via WWW at <URL:http://www.ucar.edu/dss/faq/>.

There are 7 documents in this FAQ series:
  Meteorology FAQ Part 1/7: Intro
  Meteorology FAQ Part 2/7: Sources of weather data  <=== 
  Meteorology FAQ Part 3/7: Sources of research data
  Meteorology FAQ Part 4/7: Sources of CD-ROMs
  Meteorology FAQ Part 5/7: Internet resources
  Meteorology FAQ Part 6/7: Print and other resources
  Meteorology FAQ Part 7/7: List of US State Climatologists

Corrections, additions, and comments should be sent to Ilana Stern at
ilana@ncar.ucar.edu.  Please include in your message where you read
this FAQ series.  Note that if I know about it, it's in these documents.

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Subject: 1) Table of contents

 1) Table of contents 
 2) Overview
 3) Comprehensive weather sites
 4) North America
 5) Regional North American sites
 6) US Regional Climate Centers
 7) Global weather in general
 8) Europe
 9) Australia and New Zealand
10) Asia
11) South/Central America, Caribbean
12) Antarctica
13) Africa
14) Various satellite data and archives
15) Specialty-oriented weather sites
16) Severe weather
17) Climate data
18) Collections of weather data links
19) Commercial services

Each (major) section has a "Subject:" line, so you can search on the
subject title above to find the section quickly.

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Subject: 2) Overview

Sites listed in this section contain weather data:  satellite images,
forecast maps, soundings, and so on.  Some sites appear more than once
under different subject headings.  Some sites have identical contents;
please use the site closest to you.

Most of these sites have current or near-current data;  some of them have
data from severe events of historical significance, such as major storms.
There's very little historical daily data freely available via the
Internet.  Part of the reason for this is the enormous volume;  it takes
very little space on a disk to store today's conditions, but when you
multiply that by 365 days per year for however many years, it becomes
quite a bit.  Section 17 of this FAQ gives some sites with climatological 
data.

For most purposes, though, this kind of data isn't needed.  If you want 
to plan an outdoor event in, say, Greenbelt, MD on July 17, knowing
what the weather was like on previous July 17ths isn't really very
helpful.  If this is the sort of thing you're looking for, try looking
in an almanac, which usually have tables for monthly or seasonal conditions 
in major cities.

If you really need historical information for a US location that is not
covered by the sources listed in section 17, your best bet would be to 
try the Regional Climate Center for the area of interest.  Several have WWW 
pages or email contacts.  Also see the Meteorology FAQ Part 7/7: List 
of US State Climatologists for addresses and phone numbers of RCCs and State 
Climatologists, who may also be able to help.  The list is also available at
<URL:ftp://ncardata.ucar.edu/other_resources/state_climatologists>.
Also, see the Meteorology FAQ Part 3/7: Sources of research data
for climate data.  Some monthly and seasonal climatologies are available.

For weather related software, see the research data section (part 3).

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Subject: 3) Comprehensive weather sites

  These sites all focus on North America, but many include data for other
parts of the world as well.  These sites all contain a variety of weather-
related information:  satellite images, surface and upper-air analyses and 
plots, text forecasts, and so on.

<URL:http://www.atmos.uiuc.edu/wxworld/>
<URL:gopher://wx.atmos.uiuc.edu:70/>
  Weather World from the University of Illinois (WWW) and Weather Machine
(Gopher).  Currently undergoing work;  Weather World has no up-to-date
data, and the Weather Machine has some but not all.  Old description: 
Satellite images, surface and upper air analyses, forecast model output, 
etc.  This server also includes a very nice and comprehensive collection of 
MPEG movies based on the still images.  They are updated hourly and they 
cover various time durations of up to over two days.

<URL:http://wxp.atms.purdue.edu>
<URL:ftp://wxp.atms.purdue.edu/web>
  Purdue University WXP Web site.  This site includes satellite images, 
surface plots and analyses, upper air plots and analyses, soundings, radar, 
and plots of the results from various NMC forecast models.  The text on 
each page explains very clearly the meteorological usefulness and 
interpretation of the various plots.  Questions and comments to 
devo@cell.atms.purdue.edu.

<URL:http://twister.sbs.ohio-state.edu/>
<URL:gopher://twister.sbs.ohio-state.edu/>
  Forecasts for US, Canada, Caribbean;  severe weather, NMC products, tropical
observations and forecasts, marine and aviation weather;  satellite images
and analyses for US including Alaska, and Antarctica; surface plots for
US, Europe, China.

<URL:http://iwin.nws.noaa.gov/iwin/main.html>
  The National Weather Service's Interactive Weather Information Network.
Various data products for the US in general and for the states, mostly
via imagemaps.

<URL:http://www.intellicast.com/>
  Satellite images, radar summary, a few analyses, plus text forecasts
and other information for many global cities.  A few US cities have a lot 
of detailed information.

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Subject: 4) North America

Other sites with a variety of weather information for North America:

<URL:ftp://early-bird.think.com/pub/weather/maps/>
<URL:ftp://ftp.uwp.edu/pub/wx/>
<URL:ftp://kestrel.umd.edu/pub/wx/>
<URL:ftp://wmaps.aoc.nrao.edu/pub/wx/>
<URL:ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu/multimedia/images/wx/>
  These sites are all mirrors of the same archive of satellite images and
upper air and surface plots.

<URL:gopher://um-weather.sprl.umich.edu/11/Weather_Text>
<URL:telnet://um-weather.sprl.umich.edu:3000/>
<URL:telnet://hermes.merit.edu/>
<URL:telnet://measun.nrrc.ncsu.edu:3000/>
<URL:telnet://thunder.met.fsu.edu:3000/>
<URL:telnet://vortex.weather.brockport.edu:3000/>
<URL:telnet://wind.atmos.uah.edu:3000/>
  These sites are Weather Undergrounds (US/Canada fcsts, global reports, 
ski conds, severe wx).  There is also the Weather Underground WWW home 
page at <URL:http://cirrus.sprl.umich.edu/>.

<URL:gopher://metlab1.met.fsu.edu/>
  This gopher site includes surface plots and analyses, model output plots,
upper air analyses, soundings, and radar, all for the US (some Canadian 
plots), and text forecasts for Florida.  <URL:ftp://ftp.met.fsu.edu> can
be accessed via this site.  A home page in html for use with WWW browsers
is <URL:gopher://metlab1.met.fsu.edu:70/h0/Index>.
  This site is currently disabled to non .edu and .gov users because of 
high traffic, but may return.

<URL:http://http.rap.ucar.edu/staff/gthompsn/cur_wx/wx_index.html>
  Real-time weather data for the US.  Includes skew-T, wind profiler (for
the midwest only), surface plots, RUC (NCEP) model data, some aviation
data.  Heavily graphics-oriented.

<URL:http://www.met.utah.edu/>
  University of Utah Department of Meteorology.  Many products on this 
server, plus links to other servers:  forecasts, numerical model output, 
satellite images, profiler data, surface and upper air.

<URL:http://wxweb.msu.edu/weather/>
  Satellite images, 6-panel and radar summary images, surface analyses.

<URL:http://www.dow.on.doe.ca/>
  Environment Canada.  Forecasts, charts, satellite photos over Canada.
Also accessible by ftp and by gopher.

<URL:ftp://uriacc.uri.edu/davet.195/> (VMS)
  Images of the northeast US in GIF format from the afternoon passes of 
NOAA-11.  (Provided by Dave Tetreault, DAVET@uriacc.uri.edu.)

<URL:gopher://ashpool.micro.umn.edu/11/Weather/>
  US text forecasts and worldwide satellite images.

<URL:http://grizzly.uwyo.edu/> 
<URL:gopher://grizzly.uwyo.edu/>
  Weather satellite images and forecast model output, meteorgrams and
some forecasts and observations for US states and regions.

<URL:http://www.mit.edu:8001/weather/>
  Surface analysis for US, plus (searchable) US city forecasts.  

<URL:http://www.atmos.albany.edu>
<URL:gopher://gopher.atmos.albany.edu:70/11/local>
  National forecasts and discussions, NMC model forecasts, surface
maps, state and zone forecasts.  

<URL:http://www.nnic.noaa.gov/weather.html>
<URL:http://netcast.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/page?pg=netcast>
  NWS forecasts and nowcasts for US regions, cities, states.

<URL:http://www.weather.com/> 
  The Weather Channel home page.  General national conditions and links
to other sites. 

<URL:http://snow.nohrsc.nws.gov>
<URL:ftp://ftp.nohrsc.nws.gov>
  National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center.  Various images 
and animations of snow cover over North America.  

<URL:http://www.ems.psu.edu/wx/>
  Penn State University Weather Pages.  US weather statistics over last
10 days, offshore observations from ships, buoys, and CMAN stations, 
user-submitted observations.  Also connects to the Northeastern US weather
page at <URL:http://www.ems.psu.edu/wx/newx.html>.

<URL:http://www.phy.uqam.ca/home_e.html>
<URL:http://www.phy.uqam.ca/> (in French)
  Undecoded hourly surface reports in METAR format, mostly for Quebec, 
other Canadian locations, France, but also for some US and European
cities.  Profiler and radar data for Montreal.  Links to other eastern
Canadian meteorological resources.

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Subject: 5) Regional North American sites

<URL:http://www.nws.mbay.net/home.html>
  NWS San Francisco Bay.  Extensive current weather and forecasts for
Northern California, including marine weather and forecasts.  Climate
data for California cities.  Some national weather information, including
climate data for about 300 cities nationwide.

<URL:http://apollo.lsc.vsc.edu:70/>
<URL:gopher://apollo.lsc.vsc.edu:70/>
  Lyndon State College, VT/Department of Meteorology.  McIdas and other 
weather images, including surface plots, meteograms,  upper air plots, 
satellite images, NGM forecast data for US.  Text forecasts, skew-T, and 
other data for New England.

<URL:http://www.mcs.com/~mjrada>
  Northeast Illinois Weather Page.  Weather and climate for northeast
Illinois.

<URL:http://ats.orst.edu/Weather/>
<URL:ftp://ats.orst.edu/pub/weather/>
  GOES IR and VIS images over North and Central America, plus a "floater"
image which "could be anything."  Also Oregon and US city forecasts,
Oregon river and road conditions.

<URL:gopher://mcidas.uncc.edu/>
 UNC/Charlotte Earth Science server.  MCIDAS and NEXRAD images for the 
Southeast US, including meteorgrams, mesoscale analyses, upper-air plots,
streamlines, divergence, etc.

<URL:http://wwwcaps.ou.edu/Weather.html>
  Everything you ever wanted to know about weather in Oklahoma

<URL:http://wxnet4.nbc4.com/>
  NBC News 4 weather for Washington DC area.  Links to intellicast
forecasts for US and world.

<URL:gopher://vortex.weather.brockport.edu/>
  New York State forecasts, Oswego lake effect model output images

<URL:http://nwsfo.atmos.albany.edu/>
  National Weather Service Forecast Office Albany

<URL:http://www.cs.indiana.edu/weather/bmg.html> 
  Bloomington, Indiana weather in detail

<URL:http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/~cas/boulder.html>
  Boulder, CO weather and climate data

<URL:http://www.ucar.edu/dss/weather.html>
<URL:ftp://ncardata.ucar.edu/pub/weather/>
  Colorado weather forecasts, road conditions, ski conditions

<URL:telnet://empire.cce.cornell.edu>
  Weather and climate data and information via Northeast Regional Climate 
Center's CLIMOD service (login "guest"), select "Weather" then "CLIMOD"

<URL:http://www.ems.psu.edu/wx/newx.html>
  Northeastern US Weather Home Page (at Penn State).  Satellite images,
radar, forecasts, water temperatures, etc.

<URL:http://www.li.net/~nexrad/wx.html>
  Northeastern US weather data from ShareWear Inc.  Satellite and NEXRAD 
hourly single site images, model data, some AFOS data.

<URL:telnet://nevado.srcc.lsu.edu>
<URL:gopher://nevado.srcc.lsu.edu>
  The Southern Regional Climate Center operates a gopher and telnet 
site, with data mostly for the states of Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi,
Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Texas.  There is some other US data available
through the telnet site (login srcc).

<URL:http://www.hawaii.edu/News/weather.html>
  Forecasts and surf conditions in Hawaii

<URL:http://www.mrc.uidaho.edu/weather/weather.html>
  Idaho current weather information

<URL:http://www.vcnet.com/goldcoastwx/cscalwx.html>
  Southern California weather maps, observations, ocean conditions

<URL:http://maine.maine.edu/~rlight51/index.html>
  Northern Maine weather and climate data

<URL:http://climate.gi.alaska.edu/>
  Alaska Climate Research Center.  Includes monthly summaries and weather
reviews, long term climatology, and research. 

<URL:http://weather.cod.edu/skywarn> 
  Northern Illinois Multi-County SKYWARN homepage, serving the Chicago and 
Rockford, IL metropolitan areas.

<URL:http://www.weathercenter.com> 
  Tampa Bay area and general Florida weather, including local radar and
severe storm and hurricane information.

<URL:http://www.agric.gov.ab.ca/climate/index.html>
  Weather and extensive climate information for Alberta, Canada.

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Subject: 6) US Regional Climate Centers

<URL:http://climate.sage.dri.edu>
  Western RCC

<URL:http://met-www.cit.cornell.edu/nrcc_home.html>
  Northeast RCC

<URL:http://sercc.dnr.state.sc.us/sercc.html>
  Southeast RCC

<URL:http://maestro.srcc.lsu.edu/srcc.html>
  Southern RCC

<URL:http://hpccsun.unl.edu/>
  High Plains RCC

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Subject: 7) Global weather in general

<URL:http://www.public.se:80/weather/worldindex.english>
  Five-day forecasts for 450 cities worldwide [currently disabled]

<URL:gopher://metlab1.met.fsu.edu:70/11/data/>
  Florida State Gopher.  Undecoded synoptic surface and upper air data
from WMO stations worldwide.  Surface data is at
<URL:gopher://metlab1.met.fsu.edu:70/11/data/surface/syn> and upper air
data is at <gopher://metlab1.met.fsu.edu:70/11/data/upperair>.
  This site is currently disabled because of high traffic, but may return.

<URL:http://www.met.rdg.ac.uk/Data/world95.html>
  Monthly climate summaries

<URL:http://www.intellicast.com/>
  Satellite images, radar summary, a few analyses, plus text forecasts
and other information for many cities worldwide.  

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Subject: 8) Europe

Most of the European weather information available is limited to satellite
images and city observations.  Very few European agencies make forecasts
available on the Internet.

<URL:ftp://sat.met.ed.ac.uk>
<URL:ftp://liasun3.epfl.ch> 
<URL:http://liawww.epfl.ch/weather/weather.html>
  University of Edinburgh, and several mirrors, provide IR and visible 
images of Europe from Meteosat several times daily, in 1152 x 900 Sun 
raster format (size of Sun root window), gif, and gpeg.  The directory 
"animations" contains movies in .fli and MPEG formats.

<URL:http://typhoon.reading.ac.uk/weather/weather.html>
<URL:ftp://swssner1.reading.ac.uk/pub/images>
  University of Reading Department of Meteorology server.  Mostly images
from other sites collected here, plus animations made from these images.
Various satellite images (Meteosat, GMS, GOES), temperature and precipitation
images, ozone.

<URL:http://www.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk/pub/sat-images/meteosat.html>
ftp://unicorn.nott.ac.uk/pub/sat-images/
  Meteosat images of Europe and North Africa, and the globe, in jpeg format.  

<URL:http://www.meto.gov.uk/sec3/sec3.html>
  UK Met Office.  UK weather and forecasts, satellite images of Europe, 
UK shipping forecasts.

<URL:http://www.uni-koeln.de/math-nat-fak/geomet/meteo/winfos/wetterkarten.htm>
  Surface maps for Europe.  Includes:  contour map (isotherms and isobars),
plotted surface observations (selected cities), maps of temperature, min
and max, precipitation, plotted snow and ship observations, and a map of 
plotted Arctic observations.

<URL:http://www.met.fu-berlin.de/english/Wetter/index.html>
  Free University of Berlin Institute for Meteorology.  Information is
available in German or English.  Includes current Berlin weather, 
latest Meteosat images, list of upcoming conferences, neatly-formatted
and organized list of these weather resources.

<URL:http://www.phy.uqam.ca/obs_e.html>
<URL:http://www.phy.uqam.ca/obs.html> (in French)
  Undecoded hourly surface reports in METAR format, mostly for Quebec, 
other Canadian locations, France, but also for some US and European
cities.

<URL:http://cumulus.helsinki.fi/tutkakuva.html>
  Helsinki University radar image, updated hourly, showing Southern 
Finland and north part of Baltic area (in Finnish)

<URL:http://www.met.fu-berlin.de/deutsch/Wetter/meldungen.html>
  Berlin weather (in German)

<URL:http://www.met.fu-berlin.de/extern/Meteofax/index.html>
  Forecast and extended forecast for Germany (in German)

<URL:http://http://www.dwd.de/forecasts/forecasts.html> 
  Deutscher Wetterdienst (German weather service) forecasts, observations,
satellite photos, marine forecasts, METAR (in German)

<URL:http://www.meteo.fr:80/tpsreel/bulletin.html>
  Forecast for France (in French)

<URL:http://www.public.se:80/weather/weatherindex>
  Five-day forecast for Sweden (in Swedish)

<URL:http://www.fsz.bme.hu/meteo/wf.html> 
  Forecast for Hungary (in Hungarian)

<URL:http://www.noord.bart.nl/~henkl/weather.html>
<URL:http://www.noord.bart.nl/~henkl/> (in Dutch)
  Weather in the Netherlands;  also links to other European weather sites.
Some European weather reports in Dutch. 

<URL:http://www.euronet.nl/users/kneve/index.html>
  Monthly climatology and weather information for Leiden, the Netherlands.

<URL:http://www.knmi.nl/>
  Dutch Weather Service.  Forecasts and maps for the Netherlands, northwest
Europe, and the British Isles.

<URL:http://www_meteo.oma.be/IRM-KMI/> 
  Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium.  Climate and weather, in 
English, French, and Dutch.

<URL:gopher://ashpool.micro.umn.edu/11/Weather/Maps>
  Meteosat UK, Europe, Scandinavian visible and IR 

<URL:gopher://gopher.uni-bayreuth.de:70/11/Service/Meteosat>
  Archive of Meteosat images over Europe 

<URL:http://wxweb.msu.edu/weather/>
  IR, vis images of Europe and N. Africa in gif and jpeg format

<URL:http://web.nexor.co.uk/users/jpo/weather/weather.html>
  Images from Nottingham and Edinburgh sites.

<URL:http://www.eso.org/garching-info/computing/weather.html>
  Satellite images of Europe

<URL:http://www.telegraph.co.uk>
  Synoptic charts for the UK (must register)

<URL:http://www.zetnet.co.uk/sigs/weather/>
  Fair Isle station, Shetland UK.  Weather and climate data from this station.

<URL:http://www.met.reading.ac.uk/~brugge/index.html>
  Links to European weather sites.

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Subject: 9) Australia and New Zealand

<URL:http://www.gphs.vuw.ac.nz/meteorology/maps.html>
<URL:ftp://ftp.gphs.vuw.ac.nz/pub/weather/pictures>
  Victoria University of Wellington Geophysics department.  GMS images over 
New Zealand, hourly, in jpeg format, for the last week  or so.

<URL:http://www.bom.gov.au/>
<URL:gopher://babel.ho.bom.gov.au/>
  Australian Bureau of Meteorology.  Weather forecasts, reports, warnings;
satellite images and weather charts.

<URL:http://www.ml.csiro.au/~lband/index.html> 
  Latest NOAA AVHRR satellite images of Southern Australia.

<URL:ftp://ftp.jcu.edu.au/JCUMetSat/>
<URL:http://typhoon.reading.ac.uk/weather/aust.html>
<URL:ftp://swssner1.reading.ac.uk/pub/images/aust>
  James Cook University. GMS-4 images updated regularly for various Australian 
states, Australia as a whole, the globe, the TOGA/COARE area, and events of 
interest such as cyclones. The images are in a format designed for the 
package JCUMetSat on Amiga computers, but can be converted to GIF format 
using the ALCHEMY software (shareware) available at this site.  (More 
information on the format and images can be obtained from Professor C.J. 
Kikkert, eecjk@marlin.jcu.edu.au.)
  The University of Reading Department of Meteorology has these images
converted to GIF format and also in movie (.fli) version.

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Subject: 10) Asia

<URL:http://hydro.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/>
<URL:ftp://hydro.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/data/>
  GMS and NOAA quick look images of the area around Japan are recieved 
and processed by Musiake Laboratory in Institute of Industrial Science, 
University of Tokyo.  The images are in a variety of formats.

<URL:gopher://gopher.ncc.go.jp:70/11/INFO/weather/>
  GMS and NOAA images of Japan and Pacific, weather forecasts (in Kanji)

<URL:http://www.is.kochi-u.ac.jp/weather/index.en.html>
  Kochi University weather page

<URL:http://www.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/info/weather/weather.html>
  University of Tokyo weather page

<URL:http://www.underground.org.hk>
  Weather Underground of Hong Kong.  Current weather and forecast for Hong 
Kong, China, Taiwan and major cities in the world; full-disk and regional 
GMS-5 images and movies; Western North Pacific tropical cyclone information; 
current weather maps and ECMWF/MRF forecast maps up to 144 hours; and other 
miscellaneous information.

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Subject: 11) South/Central America, Caribbean

<URL:http://www.eso.org/garching-info/computing/weather.html>
  Satellite images of South America

<URL:http://yabae.cptec.inpe.br/meteoimages/home> 
  Meteosat-5 and GOES-8 satellite images over South America

<URL:gopher://metlab1.met.fsu.edu:70/11/surface>
  Surface plots for Caribbean, Mexico
  This site is currently disabled because of high traffic, but may return.

<URL:http://www.nnic.noaa.gov/weather.html>
  NWS observations for Latin America can be obtained by choosing Regional
Weather Summary from the "Weather Forecast Product" menu, hitting "Select",
and choosing "Latin America".  Kind of complicated, but it works.

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Subject: 12) Antarctica

<URL:http://uwamrc.ssec.wisc.edu/> 
  Antarctic Project Home Page.  Displays of real-time meteorological and 
remote sensing data. 

<URL:http://www.nbs.ac.uk/public/metlog/>
  British Antarctic Survey database.  Antarctic surface weather conditions 
and soundings, about a day delay.  

<URL:http://www.awi-bremerhaven.de/MET/Neumayer>
  Observations from German Antarctic Station Neumayer (70037'S, 8022'W).

<URL:http://wxweb.msu.edu/weather/antarctica.html>
  Antarctica infrared composite image

<URL:http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/index.html>
<URL:gopher://gopher.ssec.wisc.edu:70/11/amrc.d>
  Southern hemisphere composite images

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Subject: 13) Africa

<URL:http://cirrus.sawb.gov.za>
  Current weather and forecasts for South Africa

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Subject: 14) Various satellite data and archives

These sites are mostly image repositories.  See section on satellite data 
in the research data portion of the FAQ for non-image data, information about 
the satellites themselves, calibrations, etc.

<URL:http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/index.html>
<URL:gopher://gopher.ssec.wisc.edu:70/11/gsdc.d/>.
<URL:ftp://ftp.ssec.wisc.edu/gopher/>
  Space Science and Engineering Center, U. of Wisconsin-Madison.
Near real-time daily browse GIF images from GOES series satellites.
Antarctic and global composite images, weekly SST, forecast images,
half-hourly real-time GOES-8 vis, IR, and water vapor images over North
America, some special event images.
  For information contact gopher@ssec.wisc.edu

<URL:http://www.goes.noaa.gov/>
  Near realtime GOES imagery from NOAA.

<URL:ftp://photo1.si.edu/More.Smithsonian.Stuff/nasm.planetarium/>
  Directory "weather.gif"images from NOAA and Meteor polar orbiting weather 
satellites, maybe others.  Images will remain here for a few weeks -- some 
of the more exceptional images will be placed in a longer-term archive under 
the subdirectory "weather.archive".  
  For more information, contact nasep007@sivm.si.edu (Geoff Chester).

<URL:http://www.sat.dundee.ac.uk/>
<URL:ftp://ftp.sat.dundee.ac.uk/>
  Dundee University archive of NOAA AVHRR / HRPT images of Europe for the
last 15 years, with on-line access to lower resolution images (Quicklooks)
for the last six months, and a full resolution data service on request.
For information contact Alan Muir (asm@ua.ndu.ac.uk).

<URL:http://satftp.soest.hawaii.edu/>
<URL:ftp://satftp.soest.hawaii.edu/>
  University of Hawaii Satellite Oceanography site.  AVHRR images within the 
radius of reception of the university's HRPT station, approximately 5 S to 
45 N and 125 W to 165 E, and from a station in San Diego.  The processed 
images are available usually within 30 min. of NOAA-12 passages. GMS
images of the full GMS coverage area and over the TOGA-COARE area are 
available. 

<URL:http://www.t-e.k12.pa.us/~dbaron/satellite/>
  Links to North American, European, and Asian satellite image sites.
Useful because it gets everything together in one place, and contains
background information about the platforms, products, and formats.

<URL:http://nrlmry.navy.mil/photos.html>
  NRL Monterey satellite photos and movies.  Various research-oriented
images from GOES-9.  Movie loops from GOES-8, GOES-9, and GMS.  

<URL:ftp://explorer.arc.nasa.gov/pub/Weather/> (for use by west America)
<URL:ftp://boa.gsfc.nasa.gov/Weather/gms/> (for use by east America, Europe)
<URL:ftp://plaza.aarnet.edu.au/Weather> (for use by Australia, NZ, Asia)
  Visible and IR hourly GMS-5 images in gif format (neat pictures, may be
enhanced), and in hdf format (raw, intended for research), in the directory
"pub/Weather/GMS-4".  Resolution is 5 km so images are 2-3 MB in size.
The hdf files have navigation information included.  The "pub/Weather/GOES-7"
directory contains half-hourly visible and IR GOES-7 images in gif and hdf 
formats; the IR data is 8 km resolution and the VIS is a very large 4 km 
resolution.  Also, "pub/Weather/GOES-8" now contains GOES-8 images.
  48-hour MPEGs also available.
  For more information contact medin@cincsac.arc.nasa.gov 
(Milo S. Medin).

<URL:http://yabae.cptec.inpe.br/meteoimages/home> 
  GOES and Meteosat images over South America in gif and jpg format.  About 
a month's worth of archive in addition to current images.

<URL:http://www.aa6g.org/weather.html>
  Information about GOES and polar orbiting satellites, and WEFAX equipment.

<URL:http://www.xmission.com/~idi/usfs.htm> 
<URL:ftp://ftp.xmission.com/pub/users/i/idi/usfs/usa640.jpg>  JPEG
<URL:ftp://ftp.xmission.com/pub/users/i/idi/usfs/usa640.gif>  GIF
  Intermountain Digital Imaging.  640x480 AVHRR mosaic of the lower 48
states of the US for free.  Other and higher resolution images for sale.

<URL:http://smis.iki.rssi.ru/dataserv/engl/data_s_e.htm>
  Current data and archive.  Russia, Arctic Ocean AVHRR and GOMS (not
current) satellite imagery (gif, jpg, and mpg).   

<URL:gopher://wx.atmos.uiuc.edu:70/11/Images/Satellite%20Images>
  Archive:  Satellite images from 1993 and 1994

<URL:http://www.drig.com/~johnb/index.html>
  Archive: 3-4 weeks of Meteor and NOAA satellite images

<URL:gopher://gopher.uni-bayreuth.de:70/11/Service/Meteosat>
  Archive:  Meteosat images over Europe


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Subject: 15) Specialty-oriented weather sites

These sites are intended for users with particular interests or background,
and include marine forecasts, aviation weather, and forecast products which
are more interesting to meteorologists than to lay users.

<URL:http://grads.iges.org/pix/head.html>
  Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies.  Global 10-day temperature and 
precipitation forecasts, medium-range forecasts, and analyses.  A few 
more products for North America, including current weather images.  Images
of hurricanes, El Nino forecasts.  

<URL:http://java.meteor.wisc.edu/index.html>
  University of Wisconsin-Nonhydrostatic Modeling System home page. 48 hour 
forecast VIS-5D datasets for all three model grids with a one hour animation 
timestep are available for download.  A map outline file and surface 
topography file for our local spherical coordinate system are also available. 
  GIF format images of various model quantities are also available at 6 hourly
forecast intervals starting at 00 UTC and ending at 00 UTC + 48 hours.
  The model is run once every day using the 00 UTC NMC eta analysis, 
and uses 6 hourly eta model forecasts as boundary conditions.  More info 
on the specifics of the model is available through the home page.

<URL:http://www.fnoc.navy.mil/noraps.html>
  Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center.  Surface temperature 
and precipitation, 12-hour precipitation analyses and forecasts.  Also see
entry under Oceanography in research data section.

<URL:http://www.oceanweather.com/data/data.html>
  Oceanweather, Inc. current global significant wave height data and 
observations.  

<URL:http://www.navcen.uscg.mil>
<URL:gopher://gopher.navcen.uscg.mil>
<URL:ftp://ftp.navcen.uscg.mil>
  U.S. Coast Guard.  Maritime safety, GPS, radionavigation, marine weather
information.

<URL:http://s101dcascr.wr.usgs.gov/~mddettin/index.html>
  Hydroclimatology of the San Francisco Bay.

<URL:http://gergu3.tamu.edu/Tglo/>
  TABS, the Texas Automated Buoy System.  Real time currents for the
nearshore and offshore Texas coast.   Updated with new currents 4 times 
daily under normal conditions and 12 times daily during oil spill events. 

<URL:telnet://duat2.wtp.gtefsd.com>
  Aviation weather -- This service is restricted to pilots only. 
Various weather products are available including SA, UA, and severe weather 
info.  Hit '?' for help whenever you are confused by a prompt.
  DUATS can also be accessed directly by 1-800-767-9989 at 9600 baud.

<URL:http://acro.harvard.edu/GA/av_weather.html> 
  Aviation Weather Page.  A list of aviation weather information sources.

<URL:http://www.infi.net/~cwt/avn-wea.html>
  Aviation Meteorology Committee of the National Weather Association 
homepage.  Includes links to aviation weather information.

<URL:telnet://shelley.ca.uky.edu>
<URL:gopher://shelley.ca.uky.edu:70/11/weather>
  University of Kentucky College of Agriculture Gopher server.
US Zone forecasts by state, plus detailed forecasts and observations
for Kentucky.  Also includes river conditions for central US states
under the NWS products menu.  For telnet access, log in as "kyag".

<URL:http://www.vu-wien.ac.at/i115/uv/uv_home.htm>
  Institute of Medical Physics in Austria.  Ultraviolet radiation
forecast in the form of UV indices for Austria, Europe, and worldwide
sites.

<URL:http://www.club-internet.fr/securite-solaire/>
  La Mto Solaire is a public information service featuring UV radiation 
measurements and forecasts.

<URL:http://met.rfl.pswfs.gov/forecast.html> 
  US fire weather forecasts.  Temperature, humidity, Chandler burning 
index, and precipitation frequency for the US.

<URL:http://www.nofc.forestry.ca/fire/index.html> 
  Canadian fire weather forecasts from the Canadian Wildland Fire 
Information System.  Various indices and predictions.

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Subject: 16) Severe weather

Current information:

<URL:http://taiga.geog.niu.edu/chaser.html>
  Northern Illinois University Storm Chaser homepage.  Contains a wealth of 
information for serious storm chasers, such as soundings, all US and European 
model forecasts, the "Supercell Index" from the operational version of the 
University of Wisconsin model, as well as complete current weather 
information; listings of commercial and amateur radio stations/frequencies 
and TV stations worth tuning into while chasing; recommend places to eat and 
sleep; the best road maps, and much more.
  You will also find NWS office information, including rules, chaser
ethics, and Roger Edwards (SELS) storm chaser report form for reporting 
severe weather. The latest tornado research can be found linked here to 
the University of Oklahoma and NSSL, and if you need a chase partner, you 
can tell others you are looking for one. Plus, information pages on the 
StormTrack and TESSA (Texas Severe Storms Association) newsletters and 
organizations can be found here.

<URL:ftp://squall.met.fsu.edu/pub/jack>
  Tropical Cyclone Weekly Summary archive.  Files are named "tlognnnn.txt"
where nnnn is the report number -- the highest report number is the most
recent (current).

<URL:http://typhoon.atmos.colostate.edu>
  Atlantic Seasonal Hurricane Forecast (current and past) by W. Gray and
C. Landsea of Colorado State University.  Also contains the Tropical 
Cyclone FAQ by Chris Landsea.

<URL:http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/>
  NOAA's National Hurricane Center.  Information about current tropical
cyclones, images, storm tracks, facts about hurricanes.  Also links
to their archive.

<URL:http://www2.smart.net/~gdmgeg/>
  TRANTECH (TRopical ANalog TECHnique) model site.  This model is based on
climatology and persistence and, indirectly, current atmospheric dynamical 
fields.   Strike probabilities, times, locations, intensities and other
forecasts.  Links to other tropical storm pages are also included.

<URL:http://www.hkstar.com/~kenf/tcc.html>
  Tropical Cyclone Centre (Hong Kong).  Tropical cyclone tracks, images,
MPEG movies, cyclone names.

<URL:http://cirrus.sprl.umich.edu/wxnet/tropical.html>
  WeatherNet's tropical weather page.  National Hurricane Center advisories, 
recon reports, local National Weather Service statements, tracking maps, 
buoy data, radar, satellite photos and much more.

<URL:http://grads.iges.org/pix/head.html>
  Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies.  Images and information on
current hurricanes and tropical storms.

<URL:gopher://wx.atmos.uiuc.edu:70/11/Hurricane%20Track>
  UofI Weather Machine hurricane and tropical storm advisories, tracks,
discussion, other information.

<URL:http://www.hawaii.edu/News/storm.tracks.html>
  Charts and projections of tropical storm movement in the Atlantic, Pacific, 
and Indian Ocean areas, updated every six hours.

<URL:http://milo.ifa.hawaii.edu/Tropical/tropical.html>
  Maps and of current tropical storms in Atlantic, Pacific, Indian Ocean.
Also archives (see below) 

<URL:http://aws.com/>
  Automated Weather Source, Inc.  Includes page on lightning and storm
chasing, graphs of weather data taken during unusual weather events,
information about recent hurricanes and tropical storms.

<URL:http://www.nssl.ou.edu/~spc>
  Thunderstorm and tornado current information, forecasts, and statistics.

Archives: Severe weather in general and other natural disasters

<URL:http://www.awc-KC.NOAA.gov/spc/Storm_Prediction_Center.html>
  Historical tornado, hail, and wind damage data.  Lots of tornado
statistics.

<URL:http://www.flinet.com/~reiter/> 
  Some information on current tropical weather activity and tropical weather 
system historical data.  Lots of general information about hurricanes, 
hurricane preparation and recovery, including lists of deadliest and 
costliest storms.

<URL:ftp://ftp.nohrsc.nws.gov/pub/Natural.Disasters>.
  Images of the east coast during the March 1993 blizzard, of the midwest 
during the July 1993 flood, and others.

<URL:ftp://climate.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/gumley/>
  Midwest 1993 flood images

<URL:gopher://um-weather.sprl.umich.edu/11/Famous_Weather_Events/>
  Blizzard of 93, hurricanes Andrew, Hugo, Emily, Elena;  tornado paths

<URL:ftp://earthsun.umd.edu/JEI/GOES>
  "Blizzard of 93" movie in .flc format

<URL:ftp://sumex-aim.stanford.edu/pub/info-mac/art/qt/>
  Quicktime (for Macintosh) movie of "Blizzard of 93"

<URL:ftp://swssner1.reading.ac.uk/pub/images/special>
<URL:http://typhoon.reading.ac.uk/weather/special.html>
  Various hurricane and other storm animations in .fli format

<URL:http://tornado.sfsu.edu/geosciences/CA.html> 
  California Case Study and Photo Page.  Includes images of the Dec 12 1995
"West Coast Bomb" and photographs of other severe weather in California.

<URL:http://www.hvu.nl/flood/>
  Reports and information on February 1995 flood in the Netherlands

Archives: Hurricane images, tracks, etc:

<URL:http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/dmsp/TCYCLONE/weekly.html>
<URL:ftp://ftp.ngdc.noaa.gov/DMSP/SERVICES/WEEKLY/TCYCLONE
  Archives of the Tropical Cyclone Weekly summary from 1994.

<URL:ftp://downdry.atmos.colostate.edu/pub/>
  Historical tropical cyclone best track data for Atlantic and Pacific.
Also the Tropical Cyclone FAQ by Chris Landsea.

<URL:http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/images/olimages.html>
  NCDC on-line image page.  Images of hurricanes, tropical storms, and other
natural disasters and severe weather.  Archives go back to 1970 (Hurricane
Celia) but many more images are available for more recent years.

<URL:http://goeshp.wwb.noaa.gov/special.html> 
  NOAA special events archive.  Satellite images of hurricanes and 
tropical storms, including Violet, Hortense, Fran.

<URL:http://www.aer.com/hurricane/hurricanes_95.html>
  Images of all 1995 Atlantic hurricanes.

<URL:http://www.gulf.net/news/opal/>
  Pictures, storm track info, and news stories about Hurricane Opal (1995).

<URL:ftp://ftp.colorado.edu/pub/weather-images/hurricane.andrew>
  Images and other information from Hurricanes Andrew and Emily.

<URL:ftp://rainbow.physics.utoronto.ca/pub/sat_images/emily>
  Images from Hurricane Emily

<URL:ftp://unidata.ucar.edu/images/archive>
  Images of hurricanes Emily, Hugo, Beryl, Kevin

<URL:ftp://ats.orst.edu/pub/weather/>
  Hurricane Andrew and Emily images

<URL:ftp://ftp.met.fsu.edu/pub/hurricane_Andrew>
  Hurricane Andrew images

<URL:ftp://photo1.si.edu/More.Smithsonian.Stuff/nasm.planetarium/weather.archive>
  Gordon, Emily images

<URL:http://satftp.soest.hawaii.edu/fernanda.html>
  Hurricane Fernanda images

<URL:http://milo.ifa.hawaii.edu/Tropical/tropical.html>
  Data about 1994 and 1995 tropical storms and hurricanes (no images).
Includes dates, locations, direction, speed, estimated central pressure,
maximum wind, and other information.

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Subject: 17) Climate data

The sites in this section have general-interest climate data.  Users with
research needs may find the sites listed in part 3 of this FAQ, at
<URL:http://www.ucar.edu/dss/faq/research-data.html> more useful.  Also
see section 6, US Regional Climate Centers.

<URL:http://climate.usu.edu/free/> 
  Utah Climate Center's interactive data retrieval of NCDC climate data.
Requires Microsoft Internet Explorer 2.0, or Netscape Navigator 2.0.  
Use a clickable map or enter a lat/lon boundary set to define an area
of the globe, then pick a station out of the resulting list.  Maximum
and minimum temperature and precipitation are available for a comprehensive
list of global stations.  Periods of record vary, but there seems to
be several years available for most stations.

<URL:http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/homepg/interprod.html>
  NCDC Interactive Visualization of Climate Data.  Several datasets
available, including global summary of day data for 18 months, and US
summary of day data which for some stations goes back to 1869.  Data
can be displayed in one of several forms, and also downloaded.

<URL:http://www.cdc.noaa.gov:80/USclimate/>
  Clickable map giving climatologies for US cities:  daily average climate 
for that city including maximum and minimum temperature, precipitation and 
snowfall.

<URL:http://www.met.reading.ac.uk/Data/world95.html> 
  Global Climate Summaries from University of Reading.  Data from various
sites and observer contributions;  users are invited to contribute. 

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Subject: 18) Collections of weather data links

<URL:http://cirrus.sprl.umich.edu/wxnet/>
  WeatherNet is a big collection of North American weather links, images,
and information.

<URL:http://taiga.geog.niu.edu/welcome.html>
  The Meteorology Program at Northern Illinois University's home page has 
links to other weather pages by protocol (telnet, gopher, ftp, http).

<URL:http://savvy.com/~nexrad/weather.html>
  ShareWear Inc.  Links to many weather pages.

<URL:http://www.met.fu-berlin.de/DataSources/MetIndex.html>
  Free University of Berlin Institute for Meteorology.  "The World-Wide Web
Virtual Library:  Meteorology."  A big list of pointers to many of these 
weather data sources, nicely formatted but with many outdated links.

<URL:http://www.eskimo.com/~jgriffin/weather.html>
  Links to many weather data sources.

<URL:http://www.infi.net/~cwt/wrld-wea.html>
  "Virtual Library of Hampton Roads" weather page.  Links to weather 
forecasts, maps, institutions, informational articles.

<URL:http://www.ugems.psu.edu/~owens/weather.html>
  Allentown Weather Center.  Links to many weather data sources.

<URL:http://sci-ed.fit.edu/wx.html>
  Florida Tech.  Links to several weather pages.

<URL:http://www.ugems.psu.edu/~klee/Enforcer/wx-spot1.html>
  The Weather Spot.  Links to many weather pages, organized by type of
data (satellite, severe, forecast, surface, climate, etc.)

<URL:http://www.buffnet.net/~glf/>
  The Weather Resource.  Links to many weather pages.

<URL:http://www.met.reading.ac.uk/~brugge/index.html> 
  Links to European weather sites.

<URL:http://atmos.es.mq.edu.au/MACISS/query.html> 
  Searchable database of atmospheric science servers.

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Subject: 19) Commercial services

<URL:http://www.wxscratch.com>
  Weather Scratch Meteorological Services.   Consulting firm specializing
in Severe Local Storm Forecasting.   

<URL:http://www.weatherstore.com/>
  WeatherWatch Magazine's WeatherStore online.  Weather-related equipment
such as barometers, thermometers, rain gauges, wind indicators, etc.  
Software and books.

<URL:http://www.vcnet.com/goldcoastwx/home.html>
  Gold Coast Weather.  Internet-based service providing weather and 
oceanographic information useful in planning ocean-related activities. 

<URL:http://www.indirect.com/www/storm5/>
  Warren Faidley/Weatherstock.  Commercial photographs of severe weather. 

<URL:http://www.isn.net/~wxsense/>
  WEATHER-SENSE.  Suppliers of weather-related equipment such as barometers,
thermometers, rain gauges, wind indicators, etc.

<URL:http://www.lookup.com/Homepages/87344/predict.html> 
  EA Technology. Lightning prediction and detection services for the UK.

<URL:http://www.campbellsci.com/> (US)
<URL:http://www.ultra.net.au/~csa> (Australia)
  Campbell Scientific.  Sensors and data loggers.

<URL:http://www.opendoor.com/MetOne/>
  Met One Instruments.  Wind direction and speed, temperature, RH, etc.

<URL:http://www.amerwxcncpt.com>
  American Weather Concepts.  Access to updated I.R and VIS satellite 
imagery and 15 minute updated nexrad images. 

<URL:http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/raypeltz/> 
  Weather By Design.  Operational weather analyses and forecasts, severe 
weather warning services.
   
<URL:http://www.awis.com/> 
  Agricultural Weather Information Service.  Agricultural weather data,
forecasts, climate data.
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