The UK's Number One Geography Portal!!	Years 7 - 9Topic: Weather

General

The BBC Weather siteThis excellent site will provide almost everything that you need. It has forecasts for the whole country plus your own region and individual towns/cities. It has satellite images and lots of weather articles on hurricanes, El Nino, clouds, the climate of Europe, etc, etc.

The U.K. Met OfficeThe Met Office is the source of weather data for most other UK sites. It now provides some of its data online e.g. satellite photos, synoptic maps, etc. A new 'About The Weather' section provides a large number of information pages for students and teachers.

Encyclopedia of the Atmospheric EnvironmentA large website which deals with all aspects of the weather plus specialist topics such as Acid Rain and Global Warming.

Hurricanes, Hurricanes & More Hurricanes...

There is an almost endless set of links for those interested in this dramatic and sometimes disastrous aspect of the weather. The aim, therefore, is to provide enough good links to satisfy the curious and also those who want specific information e.g. on Hurricane Andrew

Hurricane Organisations

• National Hurricane Centre, Miami, Florida (US)
• Federal Emergency Management Agency (US)
• CNN News Storm Center (US)
• DMSP - Defence Meteorological Satellite Program (US)
• National Climatic Data Center (US)

Hurricane Information

• Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Damage Scale
• USATODAY newspaper - information database - photo gallery, data, maps, etc.
• USATODAY newspaper - hurricane science - how hurricanes work, etc.

Specific Hurricanes

• Hurricane Fran (1996)
• Hurricane Andrew (1992)
• Hurricane Andrew (1992)

General Hurricane Sites

• J's Atlantic Tropical Information Pages
• Hurricane Images

Hurricanes, Typhoons, Willy-Willies, etc...

• Tropical Storms Worldwide

Note: If you want some weather data for a project or homework, have a look in the GCSE Geography section or the new weather data section.


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