-Specialty-oriented weather sites
These sites are intended for users with particular interests or background,
and include marine forecasts, aviation weather, and forecast products which
are more interesting to meteorologists than to lay users.
Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies. Global 10-day temperature and
precipitation forecasts, medium-range forecasts, and analyses. A few
more products for North America, including current weather images. Images
of hurricanes, El Nino forecasts.
University of Wisconsin-Nonhydrostatic Modeling System home page. 48 hour
forecast VIS-5D datasets for all three model grids with a one hour animation
timestep are available for download. A map outline file and surface
topography file for our local spherical coordinate system are also available.
GIF format images of various model quantities are also available at 6 hourly
forecast intervals starting at 00 UTC and ending at 00 UTC + 48 hours.
The model is run once every day using the 00 UTC NMC eta analysis,
and uses 6 hourly eta model forecasts as boundary conditions. More info
on the specifics of the model is available through the home page.
Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center. Surface temperature
and precipitation, 12-hour precipitation analyses and forecasts. Also see
entry under Oceanography in research data section.
Oceanweather, Inc. current global significant wave height data and
observations.
U.S. Coast Guard. Maritime safety, GPS, radionavigation, marine weather
information.
Hydroclimatology of the San Francisco Bay.
TABS, the Texas Automated Buoy System. Real time currents for the
nearshore and offshore Texas coast. Updated with new currents 4 times
daily under normal conditions and 12 times daily during oil spill events.
Aviation weather -- This service is restricted to pilots only.
Various weather products are available including SA, UA, and severe weather
info. Hit '?' for help whenever you are confused by a prompt.
DUATS can also be accessed directly by 1-800-767-9989 at 9600 baud.
Aviation Weather Page. A list of aviation weather information sources.
Aviation Meteorology Committee of the National Weather Association
homepage. Includes links to aviation weather information.
University of Kentucky College of Agriculture Gopher server.
US Zone forecasts by state, plus detailed forecasts and observations
for Kentucky. Also includes river conditions for central US states
under the NWS products menu. For telnet access, log in as "kyag".
Agricultural weather for Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico; Palmer drought
indices, statistics, weather summaries. Agricultural weather advisories
for much of southern US.
Institute of Medical Physics in Austria. Ultraviolet radiation
forecast in the form of UV indices for Austria, Europe, and worldwide
sites.
La Météo Solaire is a public information service featuring UV radiation
measurements and forecasts.
US fire weather forecasts. Temperature, humidity, Chandler burning
index, and precipitation frequency for the US.
Canadian fire weather forecasts from the Canadian Wildland Fire
Information System. Various indices and predictions.
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