~ Early Web Links ~

Bob Conzemius documents his storm chasing and aurora hunting adventures on this personal site, which includes dedicated sections for aurora chases, storm chases, and weather research. The dual focus on severe weather and Northern Lights photography makes it a unique destination for weather enthusiasts and aurora chasers alike.

Built by meteorologists and storm chasers, Severewx.com covers tornadoes, severe thunderstorms, and storm chasing with firsthand chase reports, photo galleries, and educational weather science content. The site includes real-time weather forecasts, links to weather resources, and a firsthand account of the team's own tornado intercepts.

Stormgasm is the storm chasing hub of Jim Bishop, Juston Drake, and Simon Brewer, featuring tornado videos, hurricane footage, supercell photography, and storm chase journals from across the Great Plains and beyond. Visitors can browse a stock footage library, explore photo galleries, and follow the team's active storm chasing adventures in real time.

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.

Lowell Highlands Weather is a personal weather station site for Lowell, Massachusetts, delivering live temperature, humidity, wind, and barometric readings powered by WeeWX software. Beyond real-time gauges, the site offers an impressive array of resources including historical climate data, radar and satellite imagery, tropical storm tracking, and local astronomy almanac information.

Hosted by NCAR's Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology Laboratory, this site provides real-time ensemble weather forecast products including surface conditions, precipitation probabilities, upper-air fields, and severe weather outlooks across multiple domains. Researchers and forecasters will find a rich array of ensemble visualization tools including postage stamp maps, plumes, soundings, reflectivity paintballs, and neighborhood probability products.

Jeremy Perez's Cerulean Arc is a detailed storm chasing blog featuring firsthand summaries of tornado intercepts and severe weather events across the American Southwest and Great Plains, stretching back to 2009. Each entry combines narrative field accounts with meteorological analysis, road network strategy, and storm photography, making it a compelling read for weather enthusiasts and chasers alike.

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.

George Kourounis is a globe-trotting storm chaser, explorer, and TV presenter whose site showcases breathtaking photographs and videos of tornadoes, hurricanes, volcanoes, lightning, and other extreme natural phenomena from all 7 continents. Best known for hosting the 'Angry Planet' TV series broadcast in over 100 countries, his online home is a stunning archive of close encounters with Earth's most violent forces.

Richard Thies of Dellwood, Missouri documents over two decades of amateur storm chasing, with yearly archives of tornado and severe weather encounters dating back to 2001. The site features photos, stories, and video footage of memorable tornado events across the Great Plains and Midwest, catalogued by county, state, and Fujita scale rating.