~ Early Web Links ~

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.

Brian Morganti's StormEffects is a personal site dedicated to storm chasing, featuring an extensive collection of storm and landscape photos, chase videos, and chase summaries from real weather events. The site also touches on astrophotography, making it a rich visual record of one enthusiast's pursuit of dramatic natural phenomena.

Stan Olson's storm chasing archive covers decades of severe weather pursuits across Illinois, Indiana, Oklahoma, and beyond, with individual chase logs dating back to 1999. Each entry chronicles a specific storm chase event, including notable encounters like a tornado near Elmwood IL and a high-risk chase in North Central Oklahoma, making it a compelling firsthand record of Midwest storm chasing.

Stormgasm is the storm chasing hub of Jim Bishop, Juston Drake, and Simon Brewer, featuring dramatic tornado videos, supercell photography, hurricane footage, and storm chase galleries. Visitors can browse or purchase stock footage from real-world chases across Tornado Alley, making it a go-to resource for weather enthusiasts and filmmakers alike.

Chris Kridler's Sky Diary is a long-running storm chasing site dating back to 1997, packed with chase journals, tornado and lightning photography, weather data, and kids' weather facts. A portal for Kridler's broader web presence, it connects visitors to storm chasing accounts, photography portfolios, videos, and live chase tracking.

A comprehensive personal weather station site covering Newquay, Cornwall, with live readings, multiple beach webcams, radar, tides, surf reports, lightning data, and satellite imagery. The depth of data here is remarkable, pulling together local forecasts, UK temperature comparisons, sea ice cover, wave heights, and even solar performance into one Cornwall-focused hub.

Tropicalweather.net is a comprehensive resource covering tropical cyclones, hurricane forecasts, and preparedness tips, with special focus on the North Atlantic basin and nearly two decades of historical hurricane summaries. Visitors can test their knowledge with trivia quizzes at three difficulty levels, browse climatology data for Caribbean cruise destinations, and even explore career paths in TV meteorology.

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.

Joseph Oregon Weather is a comprehensive local weather station site covering Joseph, Oregon and Wallowa County, featuring live conditions, forecasts, webcams, air quality, road conditions, fire information, and earthquake data. Running since 1999, it serves as a one-stop regional resource with the charming mascot WeatherBee and live data feeds from a personal weather station integrated with National Weather Service data.

Belgian meteorologist Frank Deboosere presents detailed interactive climate charts for Uccle, Belgium, tracking temperature, precipitation, and sunshine duration across decades. The graphs plot 30-year rolling averages against current normals, making long-term climate trends and changes visually accessible to anyone curious about local Belgian climate history.