Weather Links and References

Last revised: 14Nov2001 GLG

• Glossary of weather terms and acronyms
     <http://www.crh.noaa.gov/dtx/glossary.htm>

• US National Weather Service home page
     <http://www.nws.noaa.gov/>

• US National Weather Service Disclaimer
     <http://www.nws.noaa.gov/disclaimer.html>
  "Data distribution via the Internet is not considered an operational delivery mechanism by the NWS due to our inability to insure access to this service, therefore, the information available here shall not be used for flight planning or other operational purposes."

• Weather-station lookup page
     <http://www.nws.noaa.gov/oso/siteloc.shtml>

• Downloadable zipped lists of station-data
     <http://www.nws.noaa.gov/oso/site.shtml>

• NWS Regional Home-page directory
     <http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/wrhq/nwspage.html>

• Current weather conditions, browser interface
     <http://weather.noaa.gov/weather/curcond.html>

• NOAA Home Page
     <http://weather.noaa.gov/>

• NOAA's METAR data access home page
     <http://weather.noaa.gov/weather/metar.shtml>

• NOAA TAF-format forecasts
     <http://weather.noaa.gov/weather/taf.shtml>

• How to Read a METAR Report
     <http://www.met.tamu.edu/class/Metr151/tut/metar/metarmain.html>

• In-Depth METAR reference material
  (from the Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Texas A&M University)
     <http://www.met.tamu.edu/class/METAR/metar.html>

• NOAA Education -- Specially for Teachers
     <http://www.education.noaa.gov/tweather.html>

• Scientific Graphics Toolkit (SGT)
  A plotting, charting, and graphing toolkit for Java (JDK 1.1.8 or later). Useful for graphing weather data you've acquired.
     <http://www.epic.noaa.gov/java/sgt/>

• University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
  (a consortium of universities)
     <http://www.ucar.edu/>

• ASOS Algorithm Tutorials
  (cool automated sensing technology)
     <http://meted.ucar.edu/export/asos/>

• Weather Observations and XML
     <http://zowie.metnet.navy.mil/~spawar/JMV-TNG/XML/OMF.html>

• Java Toaster prints weather forecast
     <http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/18016.html>

• Bread as a display device
  includes pictures
     <http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/2/19442.html>

• Weather Underground
     <http://www.wunderground.com/>

• WeatherWise -- the magazine about the weather
     <http://www.weatherwise.org/>

• Weather Shop -- sells instruments, electronics, software, etc.
     <http://www.weathershop.com/>

• More Weather Links
  (has some dead links)
     <http://www.wso.net/severe/wthrlnk.htm>

• Son of Weather Grok
  Mac OS application does things similar to WeatherEase demo, but with a more graphical and refined presentation.
     <http://www.stimpsoft.com/products/sonofgrok.html>

• WeatherMan and WeatherManX
  Shareware (US$10) Mac OS application does even more than Son of Weather Grok, including forecasts and radar images.
     <http://homepage.mac.com/deandavis/WeatherMan.htm>

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