Up-to-Date Weather, Climate & Wildfire Summaries

U.S. Government Agencies
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U.S. Government Agencies

Global and U.S. Hazards / Climate Extremes.  From the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service (NESDIS). (link verified 8 October 2007)

Environmental Product System's Ocean Page of NOAA's National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service. Includes: (links verified 8 October 2007)

• Sea Surface Temperature Contour Charts (14-100km resolution)
• Sea Surface Temperature Analyzed Fields (14-100km resolution)
• Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly Imagery (get the latest El Nino/La Nina information)
• Coral Bleaching HotSpot Charts
  (regions of extremely high ocean temperatures, global perspective)
• Degree Heating Week Charts
  (accumulations of HotSpots
• Tropical Ocean Coral Bleaching Indices
  (near-real-time information on thermal stress at selected coral reef sites

Snow-Precipitation Update.  [via FTP] From the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Natural Resources Conservation Service, National Water & Climate Center (Portland, Oregon).  Note that narrative portion of update is not provided  from 1 July to 1 November. (link verified 8 October 2007)

Most recent El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Diagnostic Advisory. Issued by the U.S. Climate Prediction Center/National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP).  (link verified 8 October 2007)

NOAA Daily Operational Significant Events Support Report From the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Operational Significant Event Imagery (OSEI),  "producing high-resolution, detailed imagery of significant natural or anthropogenic environmental events which are visible in remotely-sensed data available at the NOAA Science Center in Suitland, Maryland." (link verified 8 October 2007)

"Probability of Exceedance" Forecast. From the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). "This experimental forecast product gives the probability that a temperature or precipitation quantity will be exceeded at the location in question, for the given season at the given lead time. The locations include any one of 102 climate regions in the mainland U.S., or an individual station in other regions." (link verified 8 October 2007)

U.S. Hazards Assessment. From the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ( NOAA). "This product is intended to provide emergency managers, planners, forecasters and the public advance notice of potential threats related to climate, weather and hydrological events. It integrates existing NWS official medium- (3-5) day, extended- (6-10 day) and long- (monthly and seasonal) range forecasts, and hydrological analyses and forecasts, which use state-of-the-art science and technology in their formulation." (link verified 8 October 2007)

U.S. Temperature and Precipitation Trends.  From the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). (link verified 8 October 2007)

US Outlook Maps, Graphs & Tables. From the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Climate Prediction Center (CPC). "The Climate Prediction Center (NOAA/CPC) is responsible for issuing seasonal climate outlook maps for one to thirteen months in the future. In addition, CPC issues extended range outlook maps for 6-10 and 8-14 days as well as several special outlooks, such as degree day, drought and soil moisture, and a forecast for daily ultraviolet (UV) radiation index. Many of the outlook maps have an accompanying technical discussion." (link verified 8 October 2007)

Drought Information Center.  Sponsored by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) (link verified 8 October 2007)

Other

National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), State of the Cryosphere.  "Climatologists know that the measure of the world's ice, in all its many dimensions and forms, is a measure of current conditions as well as of those frozen over time. These pages present a summary of cryospheric and related indicators of global climate trends." (link verified 8 October 2007)

AMRC "Iceberg" Page.  Page of recent Iceberg images from the Antarctic Meteorology Center, a research group at the University of Wisconsin - Madison's Space Science and Engineering Center. (link verified 8 October 2007)

Forecasts and Outlooks from the Western Water Assessment.  (links verified 8 October 2007) Includes:

• Intermountain West Climate Summary
• Current and Anticipated Precipitation Anomalies over the U.S.  
• Colorado (and Interior Southwest) forecasts (experimental guidance).

Monthly Significant Weather Summaries.  From the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM). (link verified 8 October 2007)

Current Significant Global Fire Events. From the Global Fire Monitoring Center. (link verified 8 October 2007)