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Weather at Your Fingertips. Presenting Real Time Weather in Your Classroom. Eleanor Vallier-Talbot Co-Chair NWA Education Committee. Weather on the Web?. If you do a web search for “weather,” how many responses do you get??. How does…. grab you?. Yep, 1.17 BILLION !!!!!. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Weather at Your Weather at Your FingertipsFingertips
Eleanor Vallier-Talbot Eleanor Vallier-Talbot
Co-ChairCo-Chair
NWA Education CommitteeNWA Education Committee
Presenting Real Time Weather in Presenting Real Time Weather in Your ClassroomYour Classroom
Weather on the Web?Weather on the Web?
If you do a web search for “weather,” If you do a web search for “weather,” how many responses do you get??how many responses do you get??
How does…
grab you?
Yep, 1.17 BILLION !!!!!
Near Near Real TimeReal Time Weather Weather
Many, many websites are available for Many, many websites are available for you to get near real time weather, you to get near real time weather, right at your fingertips! right at your fingertips! – Locally, nationally and internationallyLocally, nationally and internationally– Weather maps/temperatures/pressureWeather maps/temperatures/pressure– Weather radar, satelliteWeather radar, satellite– Forecast models Forecast models
Simulations of the atmosphere, and what the Simulations of the atmosphere, and what the computer program thinks the weather will do!computer program thinks the weather will do!
What do you use?What do you use?
Depends upon what you want to Depends upon what you want to present to your studentspresent to your students– Current weather conditionsCurrent weather conditions– Weather forecast mapsWeather forecast maps– Satellite/RadarSatellite/Radar– Climate informationClimate information
Is the information age appropriate?Is the information age appropriate?– You have to do the searching to You have to do the searching to
determine this before presenting to your determine this before presenting to your students!students!
Where do you begin??Where do you begin??
As you can see, there are MANY, As you can see, there are MANY, MANY sources out thereMANY sources out there
You may already use private or You may already use private or public sites that provide great public sites that provide great informationinformation
If you don’t know of any, how aboutIf you don’t know of any, how about– NOAA/National Weather ServiceNOAA/National Weather Service– NOAA Climate Service (new agency!)NOAA Climate Service (new agency!)
FYI…most websites get MOST or ALL of their FYI…most websites get MOST or ALL of their data from NOAA!!!data from NOAA!!!
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/bmx/
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/hun/
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/mob/
Graphical forecasts
produced at least
twice daily and
updated as necessaryat all 123
NWS forecast offices across
the U.S.!
National DigitalForecast
Database
– Takes gridded forecast data from all
123 WFOs and places it on one “seamless” national map for
various parameters
-- Temperatures-- Cloud cover-- Precipitation
amount-- Winds
-- Weather type
http://www.weather.gov/ forecasts/graphical/sector
s/
http://www.rap.ucar.edu/weather/http://www.rap.ucar.edu/weather/
http://www.goes.noaa.gov
http://www.nnvl.noaa.gov/imageoftheday.php
Image Archive SitePrior to August 1, 2010
http://www.osei.noaa.gov/
http://www.spc.noaa.govhttp://www.spc.noaa.gov
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov
http://www.climate.gov
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/ctl/
http://www.meted.ucar.edu
http://www.ametsoc.edu/http://www.ametsoc.edu/amsedu/amsedu/
http://vortex.plymouth.edu
Non-Frames versionNon-Frames version
http://www.nwas.org/committees/ed_comm/index.php