~ Early Web Links ~

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.

Amateur radio operator N4NW runs a personal weather station in North Stafford, Virginia, reporting live conditions using a Davis Instruments Vantage Pro2 setup. The site offers current temperature, humidity, wind, rainfall totals, 5-day forecasts, radar links, and a local weather exchange network with neighboring stations.

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.

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.

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.

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 Tim Schmit at CIMSS/SSEC (University of Wisconsin-Madison), this comprehensive link directory aggregates GOES satellite imagery sources from NOAA, NASA, and international agencies including Brazil, Mexico, Chile, and Canada. Visitors can access real-time ABI imagery across all bands, mesoscale sectors, full-disk views, and animated GIFs from dozens of platforms covering both GOES-East and GOES-West.

West Island Weather Station has been monitoring coastal conditions near the Cape Cod Canal in Buzzards Bay, Fairhaven, Massachusetts since 1992, offering live bay cams, tide information, and detailed monthly weather logs. The site also chronicles notable regional weather events including Hurricane Bob 1991, the Blizzard of '78, and the Buzzards Bay Oil Spill of 2003, alongside an archive of over 10,000 photos.

Paul Stofer's StormPursuit is a comprehensive storm chasing hub featuring chase accounts, live streaming, tornado photography, and real-time severe weather tools including radar, satellite, and mesoscale outlooks. The site offers an impressive archive of storm structure photos, hail and lightning images, and educational resources for anyone fascinated by severe weather.

A Finnish sky photography site dedicated to atmospheric phenomena including aurora borealis and noctilucent clouds captured from the high latitudes of Finland. Visitors will find striking images of both day and night skies showcasing some of nature's most dramatic light displays.