Weather and Climate Links:

Choose the section that you are interested in by clicking on the headings below:

Weather Maps & Satellite Images

Hurricanes & Storms

Data
General Weather Links:

The BBC Weather site

This 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 Office

The Met Office weather site is a rapidly improving source of information for students. Some of the information still has to be paid for. A few specific links are given below.

Meteorology Guide

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

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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 Meteo France (French 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
	Europe Meteosat colour enhanced image of North-west Europe from a company called Meteotest.
	UK Rainfall Radar UK Met Office rainfall radar images for the UK. This shows not the clouds but where the actual rain is falling. Can be usefully combined with cloud images and synoptic charts.

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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

These are a good place to start when looking for the latest storm information

Hurricane Facts and Images

Specific Hurricanes

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

Tropical Storms Worldwide

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Data Links:

Climate data for 85,000 places around the world.

Britain & Ireland

Climate data for 30 towns in Britain and Ireland.

1999 climate statistics for the UK (rainfall, sunshine & temperature) month by month

1998 climate statistics for the UK (rainfall, sunshine & temperature) month by month

Climates around the world, descriptions and temperature/rainfall graphs.

Weather Data, Bern, Switzerland

Actual live weather data including some excellent graphs showing changes in pressure, temperature, etc over the last 24 hours. Mostly in English! If you want data for the last seven days, try Last 7 days

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