~ Early Web Links ~

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.

The ISU Meteorology Archive (MTArchive) at Iowa State University provides a massive publicly accessible repository of historical weather data and satellite imagery spanning from 1933 to the present. Maintained by the Iowa Environmental Mesonet project, it includes decades of archived GOES satellite imagery viewable through the IEM CoD Archive Viewer, making it an invaluable tool for researchers and meteorology enthusiasts alike.

A community message board dedicated to hurricane tracking and tropical weather forecasting, covering Atlantic, Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico, and Pacific storm systems. Members discuss current tropical cyclones, share National Hurricane Center updates, and maintain seasonal archives dating back through multiple hurricane seasons.

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.

ActonAstro Weather is a personal weather station site run out of Acton, California, delivering live conditions including temperature, humidity, dew point, wind speed, and barometric pressure. The site offers an impressive depth of historical data with daily, weekly, monthly, and seasonal records, plus links to nearby family stations, radar, air quality, and space weather resources.

RainReport.com offers a way to track and measure rainfall data without needing on-site monitoring equipment or physically visiting your property. The service uses Doppler radar and related data to provide precise rainfall reports, making it a practical tool for homeowners, farmers, and anyone who needs to know when and how much rain fell at a specific location.

Jonathan D. Finch documents his storm chasing expeditions from 1993 to the present, with detailed accounts of each chase including target areas, driving routes, and close encounters with tornadoes across the Great Plains. A fascinating firsthand record spanning decades of severe weather pursuit, complete with photos captured from video footage and narrative logs of near-misses with significant tornadoes.

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.

RAL Real-Time Weather's Upper-Air page, maintained by NCAR's Research Applications Laboratory, provides real-time rawinsonde plots and upper-atmosphere wind and temperature data across multiple pressure levels from 925mb to 200mb. Researchers and weather enthusiasts can browse SkewT/LogP charts, loop multi-day animations, and access archived upper-air data sponsored by the NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research.

Nature's Shower is a fanlisting dedicated to rain, listed under the Nature category at The Fanlistings Network, where fans of rainy weather can join and be counted among 115 members. Part of a broader collective of nature-themed fanlistings including Snow, Waterfalls, and Seasons, it offers a cozy corner of the web for those who simply love the rain.