Weather at Your Weather at Your FingertipsFingertips

Eleanor Vallier-Talbot Eleanor Vallier-Talbot

Co-ChairCo-Chair

NWA Education CommitteeNWA Education Committee

Presenting Real Time Weather in Presenting Real Time Weather in Your ClassroomYour Classroom

Weather on the Web?Weather on the Web?

If you do a web search for “weather,” If you do a web search for “weather,” how many responses do you get??how many responses do you get??

How does…

grab you?

Yep, 1.17 BILLION !!!!!

Near Near Real TimeReal Time Weather Weather

Many, many websites are available for Many, many websites are available for you to get near real time weather, you to get near real time weather, right at your fingertips! right at your fingertips! – Locally, nationally and internationallyLocally, nationally and internationally– Weather maps/temperatures/pressureWeather maps/temperatures/pressure– Weather radar, satelliteWeather radar, satellite– Forecast models Forecast models

Simulations of the atmosphere, and what the Simulations of the atmosphere, and what the computer program thinks the weather will do!computer program thinks the weather will do!

What do you use?What do you use?

Depends upon what you want to Depends upon what you want to present to your studentspresent to your students– Current weather conditionsCurrent weather conditions– Weather forecast mapsWeather forecast maps– Satellite/RadarSatellite/Radar– Climate informationClimate information

Is the information age appropriate?Is the information age appropriate?– You have to do the searching to You have to do the searching to

determine this before presenting to your determine this before presenting to your students!students!

Where do you begin??Where do you begin??

As you can see, there are MANY, As you can see, there are MANY, MANY sources out thereMANY sources out there

You may already use private or You may already use private or public sites that provide great public sites that provide great informationinformation

If you don’t know of any, how aboutIf you don’t know of any, how about– NOAA/National Weather ServiceNOAA/National Weather Service– NOAA Climate Service (new agency!)NOAA Climate Service (new agency!)

FYI…most websites get MOST or ALL of their FYI…most websites get MOST or ALL of their data from NOAA!!!data from NOAA!!!

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

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

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

Graphical forecasts

produced at least

twice daily and

updated as necessaryat all 123

NWS forecast offices across

the U.S.!

National DigitalForecast

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/sector

s/

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

http://www.goes.noaa.gov

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

Image Archive SitePrior to August 1, 2010

http://www.osei.noaa.gov/

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

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov

http://www.climate.gov

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

http://www.meted.ucar.edu

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

http://vortex.plymouth.edu

Non-Frames versionNon-Frames version

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