~ Early Web Links ~

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.

Lightning Wizard provides detailed convective weather forecast maps for North America, Europe, and the Caribbean, pulling data from the National Centers for Environmental Prediction and the National Weather Service. The site covers advanced meteorological parameters like CAPE, bulk shear, and MSL pressure across multiple forecast time intervals, making it a valuable tool for storm chasers and weather enthusiasts.

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.

Chuck Doswell's storm chasing page chronicles over three decades of tornado pursuit, beginning with his first chase in April 1972 and including detailed logs, historical accounts, and safety advice drawn from genuine scientific expertise. Packed with chase summaries, photography links, and connections to fellow chasers and meteorologists, this is a deep and personal record from one of the field's most experienced practitioners.

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.

Cyclone Road is the personal homepage of storm chaser Amos Magliocco, featuring chase reports, photos, a chase blog, and gear recommendations. The site includes a tribute to Eric Nguyen and links to essential storm chasing reading on safety, ethics, and tornado pursuit.

Ryan Crouse's storm hunting site documents extreme weather events across Yorkton, Saskatchewan, featuring lightning photography, storm clouds, and road condition updates. A personal hub for a dedicated storm chaser covering the Canadian prairies, with live streams and weather photos from the region.

Jeff Duda's storm chasing log spans a decade of tornado pursuits across the Great Plains and Midwest, with lifetime stats including 71 tornadoes witnessed across 111 total chases and over 52,000 miles driven. Each year links to detailed chase accounts, making it a compelling personal record of one dedicated chaser's adventures in severe weather.

Hosted by the University of Washington Atmospheric Sciences department, this data-rich portal aggregates real-time and archived weather observations for the Pacific Northwest, including surface obs, time series plots, pressure readings, and climatological normals. Researchers, forecasters, and weather enthusiasts will find an extensive collection of links to regional stations, webcams, El Nino data, and major climate data servers like NOAA and the Western Regional Climate Center.

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.