Observations • Forecasts

Primary Sites

• Weather Prediction Center
  • NCEP Central Operations Model Analysis & Guidance
  • Climate Prediction Center (Longer range forecasts, ENSO, Teleconnections)
• Storm Prediction Center (SPC)
• National Hurricane Center (NHC)
• National Weather Data in KML/KMZ Formats
• Northern Indiana NWS WFO (IWX)
  • 7-Day Forecast (my house)
  • Hourly Forecast Graphs (my house)
  • IWX Local Storm Reports (last 24 hours)

Specific Sites

Severe Convective Weather

• See Chase Center

Winter Weather

• National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center (NOHRSC) NOAA’s source for snow information
  • Interactive Snow Depth Map
  • Interactive 24hr Snowfall Map
• US National Ice Center
• Winter Weather Forecasts (WPC)
• NCEI Snow and Ice information
• ACCUMULATED WINTER SEASON SEVERITY INDEX (AWSSI)

For the Masses (and Meteorologists)

• Weather Underground (ad-supported or subscription)

For the Meteorologist

• College of DuPage Next Generation Weather Lab
• NCAR Research Applications Lab Real-Time Weather

Limited or Regional

• University of Illinois WW2010
• coolwx.com "Weather Pages with truly unique content since 1994"

Analysis — Current & Recent Weather

• College of DuPage Surface and Upper Air Analysis
• U IL WW2010 Surface Products
• NCAR RAL Surface ◊ Upper Air
• From the NWS JetStream Online School:
  • How to Read Surface Maps
  • Surface Weather Plots
  • Surface Weather Plot Symbols

Analysis and Forecast Models

• UCAR/NCAR RAP Real-Time Weather Data
• Plymouth State Weather Center
• Earl Barker's WxCaster (much was non-functional when checked on 2016-10-16)

Forecast Models (only)

• College of DuPage Forecast Models HRRR,RAP,NAM,SREF,GFS,GEFS,ECMWF,CFSv2
• TwisterData RAP,NAM,GFS (point Skew-Ts available)
• NOAA Operational NAM,RUC
• NOAA Operational NAM
• Millersville University WRF (E of Rockies)
• San Jose State NAM,GFS
• Oklahoma University CAPS Realtime Forecasts WRF,ARPS
• RAP Model Outputs RUC,ETA,GFS
• NSSL 36hr 00Z WRF
• Univ Illinois Real-Time Ensemble Forecasting

BUFKIT

• The BUFKIT Warehouse
• Visualize BUFKIT data for KFWA
• Penn State BUFKIT Data

Forecast Discussions

Newsletters and Blogs

• Larry Cosgrove's WEATHERAmerica
• Brian McNoldy's Tropical Atlantic Update

Local Forecasts

• Huntertown IN @Wunderground

Winter

• 84 Hr Total Snow Forecast for IWX

Local Media

• See TV Weather

Making Observations

• The Online Cloud Atlas
• Beaufort Wind Scale

Volunteer Observation Networks

• Skywarn™
• Community Collaborative Rain, Hail, and Snow Network (CoCoRaHS)

Satellite imagery

• Great Lakes - Midwest
• National Satellite Views
• College of DuPage Satellite & Radar
• IR + Surface Analysis
• NOAA GOES Image Viewer

• NCAR RAL Satellite Data
• U IL WW2010 Satellite Products
• U WI SSEC Data and Imagery
  • Geostationary Image Browser
  • Real-Time US Composite (includes 7 day loop)
  • GOES-EAST VIS/IR Upper Midwest
• RAMMB GOES-East/West RAMSDIS Online
• NOAA Geostationary Satellite Server
• NOAA CLASS — NOAA data archive (GOES and other satellite data)
• NRL Monterey Weather Satellite Products
• MODIS Today
• AVHRR for North Central US • AVHRR for other regions

Upper Air Observations and Analysis

• need to find something

Radar and lightning

• U.S. NEXRAD (Wunderground)

Radar Only

• RAP – Radar Data — 6 day archive, loops up to 12 hours
• NWS National Radar
• College of DuPage Satellite & Radar
• NEXRAD Data Archive

Lightning Only

• Blitzortung.org world map
• LightningMaps.org US centered map (displays Blitzortung.org data)

Specialized Observations

Wind

• Surface Wind Map (US) — a pseudo-dynamic view of wind, using near-term digital forecast data (National Digital Forecast Database)
• Global Wind Map — inspired by the Hint.FM Wind Map, this provides a global wind map at several layers in the atmosphere, including forecast winds (GFS). Offers several map projections.

Winter

• The Cryosphere Today — snow and ice cover

Drought

• US Drought Monitor
• Drought Impact Reporter National Drought Mitigation Center

Other

• Near Real-Time Polar Products
• Global Volcanism Program

Atmospheric Soundings

Observed Soundings

• SPC Sounding Analysis Archive
• NOAA Soundings (model and observed)

Forecast Model Soundings

• NOAA Soundings (model and observed)
• Earl Barker's Model Skew-T Page
• Storm Machine Forecast Soundings (N IL U)

Webcams

To see weather conditions around the world in real-time, check out my Webcams bookmarks.

Television

See TV Weather

Personal Websites

• Southern Illinois Weather Observatory

Pages of Weather Links

• Weather Data Links at ChaserTV

National Climate Data

• National Centers for Environmental Information
• NOAA Data Publications
  • Local Climatological Data (LCD)
    • Manually published: Monthly editions available thru December 2017; Annual editions still published (as of 2020) ◊ Fort Wayne LCDs
    • Automatically generated
  • Monthly Climatic Data for the World (MCDW), available thru December 2018
  • Storm Data (SD), available thru November 2018
• US Climate Normals for 1971-2000, 1981-2010, 1991-2020

Regional Climate Centers

International Datasets

• MSWEP (Multi-Source Weighted-Ensem­ble Pre­cip­i­ta­tion) is a new global ter­res­trial pre­cip­i­ta­tion (P) dataset (1979–2015) with a high 3-hourly tem­po­ral and 0.25° spa­tial res­o­lu­tion. The dataset is unique in the sense that it takes advan­tage of a wide range of data sources, includ­ing gauge, satel­lite, and reanaly­sis data, to obtain the best pos­si­ble P esti­mates at global scale.