Delta College Weather - Weather Links

Local Weather Info

• Delta College Weather Station home page
• Delta College Weather Station - Extended Data Site
• Local NWS Office (Detroit-Pontiac)
• All warnings and advisories for Michigan
• Michigan Hourly Weather

Forecasts

• Forecasts:
• Delta College
• Bay City
• Midland
• Saginaw
• NWS short-range forecast maps
• NWS: national forecast maps
• NOAA Climate Prediction Center: long range forecasts

Climate Data

• Delta College Weather Station: climate data
• State climate data/summaries from the Michigan State Climatologists Office
• MBS Weather - Last 3 days: Hourly       Time Series
• SPC National High and Low Temperature
• National Climatic Data Center Climate Monitoring site with extensive climatological data.

Hurricanes & Tropical Weather

• National Hurricane Center
• The Weather Underground tropical weather page

Maritime Weather & Info

• National Data Buoy Center

Great Lakes

• NOAA Great Lakes Portal
• Great Lakes water temperatures
• Great Lakes marine observation data
• Great Lakes water levels
• US marine weather forecasts
• Great Lakes weather & water data from Seagull network
• Canadian marine weather forecasts
• YouTube collection of Great Lake LiveStreams

Precipitation Data & Forecasts

• National snow analyses
• Excessive rainfall risks
• Community Collaborative Rain Gauge Network
• Michigan rain gauge data
• River data from the National Water Prediction Service
• U.S. Drought Monitor

Data Analyses

• Current U.S. surface temperatures
• Current U.S. surface dew points
• Surface plots:
• Regional surface plots from AMS DataStreme
• Weather Underground Surface plot
• NWS regional surface plot
• Historical plots and charts from Plymouth State Weather Center
• SPC Mesoscale Analyses data
• For Great Lakes region
• Wind streamline visualization:
• Global
• North American
• Weather Charts:
• Current surface weather chart from the Weather Channel
• Official NOAA daily weather map archives
• SPC current/archived surface maps
• Access to local city climate summaries via NWS WFO regions
• NWS Daily Briefing summarizing weather and other natural hazards nationwide.
• Localized farm-related weather stations: Michigan Automated Weather Network.
• NWS Weather Prediction Center
• Nicely animated charts and graphs from WeatherSpark
• Nifty color-coded charts and streamlines by Ventusky
• University of Illinois WW2010 weather animation tool
• Maps/charts from Weather Underground


• College of DuPageNexts Generation Weather Lab
• NCAR Real-Time Weather Data links
• NWS Home Page

Radar Data

• NWS U.S. Radar
• Regional Radar

Climate Change Information Resources

• NOAA Climate Page
• NOAA climate change data dashboard
• U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
• NASA Climate Change Page
• American Meteorological Society - Statement on Climate Change
• BBC News Climate Skepticism: The Top 10
• Petition Project - Arguments for Denials of Climate Science
• RealClimate - Climate Science from Climate Scientists
• Arthur B. Robinson Center On Climate & Environmental Policy
• NCDC Climate Monitoring Site
• Union of Concerned Scientists - Climate Change Page
• Global Change Research Program
• U.S. Department of Energy - Climate Change Page
• EPA - Discussion on Climate Change
• NOAA climate datasets

Thunderstorms

• SPC Convective Outlook: Day 1   Day 2   Day 3
• Real time (low-resolution) lightning data
• windy.com
• blitzortung
• lightningmaps.org
• NOAA/CIMSS LightningCast
• Plymouth State Lightning Mapper
• Current thunderstorm watches (SPC)
• Preliminary (unofficial) list - recent severe weather reports

Various Lists of Weather Links

• NOAA Weather Resources
• AMS Weather Resources
• Various links from The University of Illinois
• NCEI Weather and Climate Quick Links

Forecast Models

• College of DuPage forecast model page
• NOAA computer model forecast charts
• European model forecast charts
• NWS model output statistics (MOS) access
• Penn State E-Wall portal with multiple data analyses & models

Upper Air Data

• U of Wyoming upper air data analyses/data
• SPC current upper air maps
• SPC upper air sounding data
• Weather Underground: jet stream analysis

International Weather

• Global weather info from the WMO Weather Service
• Canadian weather
• UK weather from the Met Office

Reference/Education

• AMS Weather Studies Maps & Links for practice.
• NWS glossary storm spotters
• SKYWARN storm spotter training
• American Meteorological Society Glossary of Meteorology

Miscellaneous Weather-Related Sites

• Fire, smoke, and air quality data
• Aviation weather data from the NOAA Aviation Weather Center
• Various current weather animations from ventusky.com
• Community-driven air quality data from purpleair.com/li>
• Dark sky map analysis for astronomical work

Data Sources

• Raw surface METAR weather data
• Contact info for weather-related road conditions for all states
• Topographical maps from USGS TopoBuilder for all states
• Flight Aware flight tracking
• Marine Traffic Tracking