Current Weather

• The California Regional Weather Server

Miscellaneous Info

• Names of Winds from around the world.
• " Winds of the World", by Jan Null (Weatherwise magazine, May/June 2000).
• Scientific American Magazine special issue articles: "Weather: What We Can and Can't Do about It".

Meteorological Organizations

• World Meteorological Organization (WMO)

  (Organizes international cooperation in meteorology. United Nations agency.)

• National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
• The National Weather Service (NWS)

  (Provides weather forecasts and related services to the public. Administered by NOAA.)

• National Hurricane Center (NHC)

  (Forecasts and does research on hurricanes. Administered by NOAA.)

• National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL)

  (Does research on severe thunderstorms and tornadoes. Administered by NOAA.)

• Climate Prdiction Center (CPC)

  (Predicts and does research on climate and climate change. Administered by NOAA.)

• National Climate Data Center (NCDC)

  (Maintains climate records. Administered by NOAA.)

• Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies (COLA)

  (Privately funded organization dedicated to understanding seasonal to interannual and decadal climate fluctuations. Part of the Institute of Global Environment and Society.)

El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and La Niña

• An Analysis of El Niño, La Niña and California Rainfall

  (Discussion of the effect of past El Niños and La Niñas on rainfall in California, by Jan Null, formerly of the NWS Monterey Forecast Office. [2004])

• El Niño and California Precipitation

  (Discussion of the effect of past El Niños on precipitation in California, by John Monteverdi of SFSU's Dept. of Geosciences and Jan Null, formerly of the NWS Monterey Forecast Office. [1997])

• El Niña and La Niña: Their Relationship to California Flood Damage

  (A look at records of flood damage in California and the degree to which it is associated with past El Niños and La Niñas, by Jan Null, formerly of the NWS Monterey Forecast Office. [2009])

• El Niño Theme Page: Accessing Distributed Information Related to El Niño

  (El Niño definition, historical record, current data, and forecasts, by NOAA's Pacific Marine Environment Lab in Seattle.)

• El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Diagnostic Discussion

  (Analyses and forecasts of current El Niño event (if any), by NOAA's Climate Prediction Center.)

• JPL's El Niño Watch

  (Data and update on current El Niño event (if any), by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.)

• El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Information

  (El Niño information, from NOAA-CIRES's Climate Diagnostics Center.)

• El Niño and the Western U.S., Alaska and Hawaii

  (Links to information about El Niño, from the NWS's Western Regional Climate Center in Reno, NV.)

• "El Niño/La Niña: Nature's Viscious Cycle"

  (National Geographic Magazine article, with links to other sources of information)

• " El Niño"

  (offered by NASA's Observatorium)

Tropical Meteorology and Hurricanes

• Hurricane Forecasts

  (offered by Colorado State University)

• Most Recent Atlantic Hurricane Season

  (National Weather Service site focusing on the latest Atlantic hurricanes and tropical storms)

• Frequently Asked Questions about Hurricanes, Typhoons, and Tropical Cyclones

  (Offered by Dr. Christopher Landsea of NOAA's Hurricane Research Division in Miami, FL.)

• Tropical Cyclone Page

  (Satellite images, radar images, storm tracks, etc., for current and historical tropical cyclones. Created by the Naval Research Laboratory in Monterey, CA.)

• Mitch: The Deadliest Atlantic Hurricane Since 1780.

  (A case study of 1998's Hurricane Mitch. Created by NOAA's National Climate Data Center.)

• Hurricane Tracks for the North Atlantic, Eastern Pacific, and Western Pacific Oceans
  

  (Created by Purdue University from data compiled by the National Hurricane Center, Miami, FL.)

• National Hurricane Center (NHC)

  (Forecasting and research on hurricanes. Administered by NOAA.)

• Hurricane and Natural Disaster Brochures
  

  (Brochures produced by the National Weather Service [NWS] in cooperation with the American Red Cross and the Federal Emergency Management Administration [FEMA]. WWWeb site maintained by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's [NOAA] Miami Regional Library. Some information--particularly about tornado formation--is out of date.)

The Stratosphere

• The Stratosphere--Earth's Guardian

  (Creighton University; links to resources and data about the stratosphere and its phenonema, including the ozone layer, sprites and elves, etc.)