Weather

The GLOBE Program
http://www.globe.gov/

The GLOBE (Global learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment) Program is a world-wide network of students, teachers and scientists engaged in a tele-collaboration project to do meaningful real-life science. In the GLOBE Program, students make environmental observations and report their data findings on the Internet. Scientists use the students' data to formulate atmospheric models and provide feedback to the students. The measurements conducted by the students include air temperature, cloud observations, precipitation, surface water temperature and pH, soil moisture, biometrics, land cover assessment, and species identification. Students also share findings and communicate with other students using e-mail from the web site. GLOBE includes excellent descriptions of equipment and procedures for data acquisition and a user-friendly searchable data archive. The unique aspect of the GLOBE Program is that students are interactive partners with scientists.

Weather Underground: Tropical Weather
http://www.wunderground.com/hurricane/

Weather Underground: Tropical is an excellent resource for teachers wishing to incorporate the study of tropical weather into their curriculum. This web site contains a variety of weather maps including satellite image maps, surface maps, and contour maps. This web site also provides information on past hurricanes.

Hurricane Tracking
http://hurricane.terrapin.com/

Hurricane Tracking from the University of Maryland keeps you in touch with the latest data from the hurricane planes during storms.

WeatherOnline!
http://www.weatheronline.com/

Weather Online was developed by the Weather Network. This site is a good informational site for students to use for researching concepts related to weather or as supplementary material for a weather unit. The main areas of this site are Tropical Weather, Local Weather, Expert Weather, Weather Tools, Weather Q & A, and Weatherboy Online. The two areas that would be most informative for students are the Local Weather and the Weatherboy Online. The Local Weather allows students to get weather information for any area in the United States. The information includes 4-day forecasts, satellite images, precipitation, and radar images. Also, there is an area called Dr. Dewpoint, where questions can be answered. This area also incorporates math (algebra) concepts such as calculating wind chill or making temperature conversions. Weatherboy Online is another good place for students to visit. Weatherboy is an animated character that explains the how's and why's of weather.

Hurricane Hunters Home Page
http://www.hurricanehunters.com/

The 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, known as the Hurricane Hunters of the Air Force Reserve, is the only Department of Defense organization flying into tropical storms and hurricanes on a routine basis. Lots of cool pictures and neat information here. Contains information on careers related to severe weather.

SuperStorm '93
http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/crclm/prjct/strm93/home.rxml
This project investigates key weather processes and phenomena associated with a potent winter storm. Good inquiry activity.

WRAL Online - WeatherCenter
http://www.wral.com/weather/

This Raleigh, NC station provides weather information that would be useful for students in North Carolina and around the United States. It is also possible to chat with a meteorologist.

CNN-Weather
http://weather.cnn.com/weather/forecast.jsp

At CNN's weather Web site, students can find weather forecasts for across the US or across the world. Weather maps are also available for any area in the world. A storm center is also available for up-to-date information on current storms or to learn about past storms. Students can also find current news stories on any current major weather situations.

Wind and Sea - An Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences Internet Locator
http://www.lib.noaa.gov/docs/windandsea.html

This site is designed as a locator site meant to make Internet searching more efficient for the NOAA community, the academic community, other government agencies concerned with oceanic and atmospheric issues, and the general public. Presently the site has over 1,000 selected links to science and policy sites organized by topic and alphabetically within topic. All of these sites have been reviewed and annotated by NOAA Central Library and NOAA Regional Libraries staff.

El Niño Theme Page: Accessing Distributed Information Related to El Niño
http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/tao/elnino/nino-home.html

The El Ni–o site provides students and educators with vast amounts of information related to the phenomenon of El Ni–o. Links to basic information can be found describing what El Ni–o is, the impacts of El Ni–o, the benefits of El Ni–o prediction, and video clips of climate observation research cruises. The site also provides links to information regarding the latest information about El Ni–o including real-time data, products and analyses.

NOVA On-line El Niño
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elnino/

This site enables teachers and students to learn more about the anatomy of El Ni–o, allows teachers and students to chase El Ni–o, and provides the opportunity to learn more about El Ni–o 's far reaching effects across the globe. The site also provides a link to dispatch reports from a 1998 excursion by NOVA correspondent Mark Hoover.

NOAA's NHC Hurricane Andrew page
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/1992andrew.html

This site allows teachers and students to access the Hurricane Andrew Report from the National Hurricane Center updated December 10, 1993. The report contains synoptic history information, meteorological statistics, casualty and damage statistics, and a forecast and warning critique. The Web page also contains several storm images including radar, infared, and aerial photos.

NASA's Hurricane Movie Catalog
http://rsd.gsfc.nasa.gov/rsd/movies/movies.html

This site is a movie catalog containing movie clips of several different hurricanes including Hurricane Dennis (1999), Hurricane Mitch (1998), Hurricane Georges (1998), etc. The clips can be viewed using QuickTime on either a Mac or Windows machine.

The Tornado Project Online
http://www.tornadoproject.com/

Tornado Project Online is a small company that gathers, compiles, and makes tornado information available in the form of tornado books, posters, and videos. This Web page can link you to many different sites containing tornado data, tornado myths, tornado oddities, personal experiences, tornado chasing, and tornado safety.

WW2010 Hurricanes module
http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/hurr/home.rxml
Fly through a 3-D hurricane! Afterwards, learn the different stages of development from depression to hurricane and then learn about the structure of different parts of a hurricane.

Midlatitude Cyclones scaffolding activity
http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/crclm/act/cyc.rxml
The purpose of this activity is to introduce the characteristics of cyclones, the associated air masses and fronts, and finally how to locate the center of a cyclone from wind observations. Key words throughout this activity link directly to helper resources that provide useful information for answering the questions.

Weather - Annenberg/CPB Exhibits Collection
http://www.learner.org/exhibits/weather/

This site allows students to learn more about the forces that affect weather. Students can learn about the atmosphere, the water cycle, powerful storms, ice & snow, forecasting, and our changing climate.