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Weather at Your Fingertips

Weather at Your Fingertips. Presenting Real Time Weather in Your Classroom. Eleanor Vallier-Talbot Co-Chair NWA Education Committee. Weather on the Web?. If you do a web search for “weather,” how many responses do you get??. How does…. grab you?. Yep, 1.17 BILLION !!!!!.

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Weather at Your Fingertips

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  1. Weather at Your Fingertips Presenting Real Time Weather in Your Classroom Eleanor Vallier-Talbot Co-Chair NWA Education Committee

  2. Weather on the Web? • If you do a web search for “weather,” how many responses do you get??

  3. How does… grab you? Yep, 1.17 BILLION!!!!!

  4. Near Real Time Weather • Many, many websites are available for you to get near real time weather, right at your fingertips! • Locally, nationally and internationally • Weather maps/temperatures/pressure • Weather radar, satellite • Forecast models • Simulations of the atmosphere, and what the computer program thinks the weather will do!

  5. What do you use? • Depends upon what you want to present to your students • Current weather conditions • Weather forecast maps • Satellite/Radar • Climate information • Is the information age appropriate? • You have to do the searching to determine this before presenting to your students!

  6. Where do you begin?? • As you can see, there are MANY, MANY sources out there • You may already use private or public sites that provide great information • If you don’t know of any, how about • NOAA/National Weather Service • NOAA Climate Service (new agency!) • FYI…most websites get MOST or ALL of their data from NOAA!!!

  7. http://www.srh.noaa.gov/bmx/

  8. http://www.srh.noaa.gov/hun/

  9. http://www.srh.noaa.gov/mob/

  10. Graphical forecasts produced at least twice daily and updated as necessary at all 123 NWS forecast offices across the U.S.!

  11. National Digital Forecast Database – Takes gridded forecast data from all 123 WFOs and places it on one “seamless” national map for various parameters -- Temperatures -- Cloud cover -- Precipitation amount -- Winds -- Weather type http://www.weather.gov/ forecasts/graphical/sectors/

  12. http://www.rap.ucar.edu/weather/

  13. http://www.goes.noaa.gov

  14. http://www.nnvl.noaa.gov/imageoftheday.php

  15. Image Archive Site Prior to August 1, 2010 http://www.osei.noaa.gov/

  16. http://www.spc.noaa.gov

  17. http:// www.nhc.noaa.gov

  18. http://www.climate.gov

  19. http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/ paleo/ctl/

  20. http://www.meted.ucar.edu

  21. http://www.ametsoc.edu/ amsedu/

  22. http://vortex.plymouth.edu

  23. Non-Frames version

  24. http://www.nwas.org/committees/ed_comm/index.php

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