Resource Room->Science->Weather and Climate Information
Climvis - Climvis is the National Climatic Data Center's program that allows you to graph 16 different parameters including maximum and minimum temperatures, precipitation, and snowfall, for 8,000 sites around the world. It is a useful tool for analyzing your GLOBE classroom atmospheric data. Students can compare their daily data with a local historic record in order to understand what's expected at this time of year. The graphs also serve as effective quality checks of student data.Historic Precipitation Data - Historic Precipitation data set from the National Climatic Data Center for that includes monthly precipitation information for over 7000 stations around the world. The data are available in several presentations: as an average year, as a yearly time series, and as monthly averages. This is extremely useful in helping students analyze how their daily data reflects past averages. It also provides a large number of sites from around the world that can aid in looking at precipitation in the GLOBE Seasons Investigation.
Historic Temperature Data - A Historic Temperature data set from The National Climatic Data Center that includes monthly average temperature data from over 6,000 weather stations around the world. Some of the data sets go back as far as 300 years. This is an extremely useful tool to use to help students put the daily data they are gathering into an historic context. It allows them to determine what the historic "normal" temperatures for their own location have been, as well as to look at what is "normal" at almost any place on the planet. It is an excellent supplement to the GLOBE Seasons Investigation. You can search both by country and by latitude. The data are presented in several formats. These include statistics and a graph of the average year, a table of the monthly average temperatures for each year of record at the site, a model and a histogram of the data for that particular location.
INTELLiCast Home Page - Extensive current and historical temperature and precipitation data for major cities around the world are easily searched. Current satellite images are available, as well as 4-day forecasts, and a special section on current ski conditions in the U.S. An extremely busy site that is hard to link to during peak business hours.
Interactive Weather Browser - This interactive weather map shows current conditions across the US and allows you to click on a city and get a forecast.
Live Access to Climate Data - Ferret software provides an interactive view of a large set of variables including: region, time of year, wind speed, sea surface temperature, air temperature, and specific humidity can be displayed in visualizations which depict global ocean/climate interactions.
National Weather Service Home Page - The NOAA National Weather Service site provides current local, national and world weather data, as well as forecasts, maps, severe weather warnings from hurricanes to tsunamis, and videos of dramatic events like hurricanes and floods.
The Weather Channel - The Weather Channel offers a menagerie of meteorological information, including: a breezy tour of current conditions; 'Cool Stuff' (the best of which is the Meteorologist's Toolbox); TWC's virtual meteorologist, 'Met on the Net,' with answers to the most intriguing weather questions of the week. TWC educational guides are available.
UofI - The Daily Planet - The University of Illinois presents current weather data and images, as well as an excellent hyper-textbook with units on wind, storms, clouds and forecasts. The photographs are dramatic and the text clear and informative. The Weather Visualizer allows you to create your own custom weather map, configured from a wide range of variables and current real time images. It offers pointers to many other related Web sites.
Weather Underground Homepage