National Weather Data in Georeferenced Image or OGC Server format
National Weather Service GIS surveyThe National Weather Service produces several data sets that are available in formats available to import into Geographic Information Systems (GIS). GIS is a collection of computer hardware, software, and geographic data for capturing, managing, analyzing, and displaying all forms of geographically referenced information. It takes the numbers and words from the rows and columns in databases and spreadsheets and puts them on a map.
Current Weather | Forecasts | Past Weather |
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Watches & Warnings
Satellite |
NDFD Hurricanes/Tropical Storms
* Experimental Hurricane forecast WMS |
Hurricanes |
No guarantee of 24/7 availability of WMS and WFS Experimental Serviices
NASA World Wind viewer (latest version 1.4 released February 14, 2007) - free download from NASA | |
GoogleEarth viewer - KML file format support - free download from Google.com | |
ESRI's ArcGIS Explorer - KML file format support - free download from ESRI.com | |
FME (Feature Manipulation Engine) that converts data in one format to another - KML file format support - (Purchase) - download from Safe.com | |
ArcGIS extension that allows ESRI software to read KML until the next full release of ESRI software that will natively support KML/KMZ - (Purchase) - download from KMLer.com |