Tropical Weather Links Page

Welcome to our Tropical Weather Links page.

We hope this newly formatted listing helps you more easily find the weather information you are looking for.

If you would like to recommend a site for inclusion, please let us know and we'll consider it.

If you find that a site doesn't work properly or that a link has become outdated, please let us know that as well. We'll update it promptly.

Until then, happy "surfing"!

Mike & Barbara (How the Weatherworks educators)

Colorado State University - TROPICAL METEOROLOGY PROJECT
http://typhoon.atmos.colostate.edu/forecasts/
Links to the current and past hurricane season forecasts for the Atlantic Ocean region from Dr. William Gray and his forecast team. Includes the forecast for the 2002 season.

FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY - Tropical Cyclone Information Page
http://www.met.fsu.edu/explores/tropical.html
Latest information on Atlantic tropical cyclones. Also includes climatology, tropical weather map analyses, and more. If http://www.nws.fsu.edu/tropical/ or http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/ doesn't work, this is a great alternative site

Institute of Global Environment and Society (IGES) - NUMERICAL MODELS
http://grads.iges.org/pix/wx.html
Computer-generated weather and forecast maps from data supplied by the National Centers for Environmental Prediction of the National Weather Service, NOAA.

NOAA/Aircraft Operations Center (AOC)
http://www.nc.noaa.gov/aoc/data/data.html
These are the NOAA folks who fly into hurricanes to gather data. The Air Force hurricane hunters (who fly out of Keesler Air Force Base, MS) have their own web site at http://www.hurricanehunters.com/

NOAA/NESDIS - Weather and Oceanographic Satellite Program
http://www.goes.noaa.gov/
Real-time and retrospective GOES imagery for up to 21 days; also, some significant event imagery and imagery from other weather satellites around the world.

NOAA/NWS - Interactive Page
http://iwin.nws.noaa.gov/iwin/graphicsversion/main.html
Current warnings, forecast weather tables, more.

NOAA/NWS - Tropical Cyclone Information Pages
http://www.nws.fsu.edu/tropical/ and http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/
Latest information on Atlantic tropical cyclones. Includes storm history, strike probabilities, satellite images, buoy data and more!!! If http://www.met.fsu.edu/explores/tropical.html doesn't work, this is an alternative site.

NOAA/NWS - SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA EL NINO PAGE
http://www.nws.mbay.net/elnino.html

SST Animation
http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/~map/maproom/text/climate_pages/sst_olr/old_sst/sst_9798_anim.shtml
A two year animation shows the onset and demise of El Nino and the start of La Nina. It takes a few minutes to load, but once loaded, it can be replayed over and over again.

UNISYS Corporation - WEATHER PAGES
http://weather.unisys.com/
Surface and upper air data, weather maps, satellite images (12 hour history plus animation), and computer model forecasts. At present only US satellite views. Need to click on current satellite image to see the menu for recent suite of other recent images.

WSI Corporation - WEATHER RADAR
http://www.intellicast.com/LocalWeather/World/UnitedStates/Radar/
Great United States radar image. Click anywhere on the map and it will take you to that area's local radar display!! Other weather information, as well, including Doppler radar velocity maps.

This page was updated on December 8, 2001.

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