~ Early Web Links ~

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.

StormDig is storm chaser James Hammett's personal site documenting over 15 years of severe weather pursuits, featuring detailed storm accounts of tornadoes, supercells, and hail events dating back to 2003. Visitors can explore chase maps, video footage, equipment specs, an aurora monitor, and a glossary, making it a richly detailed record of one dedicated chaser's adventures.

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.

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.

Skip Talbot has documented over 458 storm chases since 2003, logging 288,186 miles and 156 tornado intercepts across more than two decades of pursuit. The site features yearly chase logs, a gallery, time-lapse videos, and detailed statistics that make it a fascinating firsthand record of storm chasing as a serious hobby.

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.

HurricaneCity, maintained by Jim Williams for over 25 years, is a comprehensive Atlantic hurricane tracking resource featuring a city and island database of historical landfalls, rankings, storm data by year, and the best-performing forecast model comparisons. Visitors can explore hurricane history by state, track current tropical systems, and access a wealth of tools including reconnaissance data, El Nino information, and multimedia archives like Hurricane TV and a radio show.

A comprehensive aggregator of meteorological charts covering the North Atlantic and Europe, pulling together synoptic analysis and forecast data from sources like UKMO, DWD, GFS, and FNMOC. Weather enthusiasts, sailors, and aviation buffs will find an extensive collection of MSLP charts, upper-air forecasts, wave height data, and model animations spanning up to 384 hours ahead.

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.

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.