~ Early Web Links ~

Jason Searle, an optometrist and storm chaser, runs this hub dedicated to severe weather experiences, featuring a storm blog, video gallery, photographs, radar tools, and a storm glossary. It blends the thrill of firsthand storm chasing with practical resources for weather enthusiasts.

WorldClimate.com is a comprehensive database of historical weather averages for over 85,000 locations worldwide, offering rainfall, temperature, and precipitation records spanning decades. Travelers, researchers, and curious minds can look up climate normals for cities from Bangkok to Lima, making it a handy reference for trip planning, relocation decisions, or general weather curiosity.

Maintained by the Illinois State Water Survey and State Climatologist Dr. Jim Angel, this site provides detailed climate data for Champaign-Urbana going back to 1996, including daily and monthly temperature, precipitation, snowfall, and degree day records. It's a rich archival resource for anyone researching Illinois weather history, with links to real-time conditions, airport hourly data, and regional precipitation networks.

Hosted at Iowa State University, this Meteogram Generator produces hour-by-hour weather forecast charts for locations like KSEA (Seattle) by pulling data from multiple numerical models including NAM, GFS, RAP, and their MOS variants. Visitors can configure plots for temperature, dewpoint, wind speed, precipitation, snow accumulation, and more, then compare model output side by side across an extended forecast period.

Brandon Skalniak's labor-of-love severe weather reference site features a Radar Museum cataloging over 5,000 tornadoes, derechos, and tropical cyclones spanning from 1991 to the present. Visitors will find comprehensive tornado lists organized by intensity, mesocyclone couplet data, and a Hall of Fame for notable Mesoscale Convective Discussions dating back to 2003.

Harold Brooks of NOAA's National Severe Storms Laboratory presents a detailed statistical analysis of tornado climatology in the United States, examining frequency, death rates, and the challenges of detecting climate-related trends in the historical record. The site features data visualizations and Markov chain modeling of significant tornado days, with a particular focus on putting the large 1998 tornado death toll into historical perspective.

Jonas Parnow's curated blog collects 59 handpicked articles, films, podcasts, and data visualizations focused on the climate crisis, from India's solar energy rise to European wildfires. Each entry is carefully selected and contextualized, making it a thoughtful and opinionated guide to understanding the accelerating climate emergency.

A reference page from the University of Washington's atmospheric sciences department presenting observed climate normals for Idaho and western Montana spanning 1971 to 2000. Visitors can click on map markers to view mean monthly precipitation, mean daily maximum temperatures, and mean daily minimum temperatures for specific locations.

Bill Gargan has documented his storm chasing adventures year by year from 1991 through 2025, creating a detailed personal archive of decades on the road pursuing severe weather. The site offers a rare long-term firsthand account of the storm chasing hobby, with annual chase logs and links to fellow chasers in the community.

Andy Fischer, known as Tornadohead, documents his storm chasing expeditions from 2001 through 2008 with individual chase accounts organized by year. The site includes cumulative maps tracking counties chased, observed supercells, and tornadoes across both the northern and southern plains.