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Weather Maps & Satellite Images Hurricanes & Storms Data

General Weather Links:

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.

Meteorology GuideText and attractive diagrams showing clouds, air masses and fronts, hurricanes, El Nino, the water cycle, etc. Useful for research homeworks and revision.

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.

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Weather Maps & Satellite Images:

All original satellite images are black and white. Some sites colour enhance the images and/or add overlays. Infra red images are useful 24 hours a day whilst visible images only work during the daylight hours. Most images are from geostationary satellites which show a fixed view of one area of the globe. Others are from polar orbiting satellites which move around the earth and show many different views.

	Europe Meteosat infra-red view of North-west Europe and North Africa. Combine it with the synoptic chart below.
	Synoptic Chart Met Office synoptic chart imported from Wetterzentral, Denmark updated every 6 hours
	Global Meteosat infra-red global view
	Australia & New Zealand GMSS infra-red view of Australia & New Zealand
	Japan & China GMSN infra-red view of Japan and eastern China
	North America GOES satellite infra-red view of North America
	University of Nottingham Satellite Index Thumbnail Index of all the Meteosat images from the University of Nottingham. This is an excellent site if you are not sure what images you want. The images above are all from this site.
	Europe UK Met Office Meteosat infra-red image updated every 6 hours
	Europe Spanish Met Office - colour enhanced Meteosat image of North-west Europe
	Tropical Atlantic Weather Channel colour enhanced image of the tropical Atlantic - good for hurricanes
	Europe Weather Channel colour enhanced image of Europe
	Western hemisphere Weather Channel colour enhanced image of Western hemisphere
	Synoptic Chart Colour image of North-west Europe plus cloud overlay from the Met Office updated every 24 hours
	Europe U.S.A.F. satellite image of Western Europe colour enhanced and combined with fronts/weather symbols
	UK Met Office Rainfall Radar. This shows not the clouds but where the actual rain was falling. The images can be animated for the last 6 hours. Try also UK Rainfall Radar Animation from the BBC

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Hurricanes, Cyclones and other storms:

There is an almost endless set of links for those interested in this dramatic and often disastrous aspect of the weather. The aim, therefore, is to provide you with a range of general information and also specific information on a few famous storms e.g. 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)
• USATODAY newspaper - information database - photo gallery, data, maps, etc.
• USATODAY newspaper - hurricane science - how hurricanes work, etc.

Hurricane Facts and Images

• Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Damage Scale
• Hurricane Images

Specific Hurricanes

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

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

• Tropical Storms Worldwide

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Data Links:

WorldClimate data for 85,000 places around the world.

Britain & Ireland Climate data for 30 towns in Britain and Ireland.

UKclimate statistics for the UK (rainfall, sunshine & temperature) month by month [1994-2000] - available for dozens of different stations across the UK - online order form (max. 6 sheets of data!)

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