National Weather Data in KML/KMZ formats
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. Looking for shapefiles?
Current Weather | Forecasts | Past Weather |
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Watches & Warnings
Doppler Radar
Surface ObservationsSatelliteRemote Gages
Great LakesSurface FrontsPast and Present Synoptic Features |
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Doppler RadarNormals, Means, Extremes
Severe Weather
Rain/SnowfallHurricanes |
Fire Weather | Additional Info | |
Coastal
Estuarine Bathymetry |
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 |