Today's Weather

• Meteorological Office
• Daily UK Weather
• Daily Europe Satellite Image

• International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences
• Royal Meteorological Society (UK)
• World Meteorological Organisation (Switzerland)

• The European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (UK)

• The Meteorological Office (UK)

• NOAA National Weather Service (US)
• Korean Meteorological Society (Korea)
• Meteorological Society of Japan (Japan)

University Departments

• Birmingham: Meteorology and Climatology Department
• Cambridge: Centre for Atmospheric Science
• Dundee: Satellite Receiving Station
• Edinburgh: Department of Meteorology
• Imperial College: Atmospheric Physics
• Leeds: Atmospheric Chemistry
• Manchester Metropolitan: Atmospheric Research and Information Centre
• Nottingham: Meteosat Images
• Oxford: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics
• Reading: Department of Meteorology
• University of East Anglia: Atmospheric Research Unit

Research Centres

• National Environmental Research Council Satellite Station: Up-to-date archive of images from NOAA and SeaStar polar orbiting satellites. (UK)

• Alfred Wegener Institute, Research Meteorological Observations: Provide series of meteorological observations measured at the Neumayer and Koldewey stations as well as the Polarstern. Antarctic ozone measurements are also available.(Germany)

• Meteorological Research Institute: Provides meteorological paper listings and also a number of departments relevant to specific aspects of meteorology, several are listed below. (Japan)
 
• Physical Meteorology Research Department: Research topics include cloud precipitation physics, the atmospheric boundary layer and atmospheric radiation.
• Atmospheric Environment and Applied Meteorology Research Department: Research topics include atmospheric ozone and aerosols, environmental meteorology, local weather and climate systems and airborne particles, water and energy cycles.
• Meteorological Satellite and Observation System Research Department: Research includes the development of efficient methods for satellite observation, detection of meteorological hazards and advanced meteorological observation systems.
• National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR): Maintains a large archive of atmospheric, oceanic and geophysical datasets, encompassing most sub-disciplines. This site contains information (metadata) on available datasets: a few small datasets are directly available.

Data/Information Libraries

• Roger Brugge's Home Page: The editor of Weather provides a mass of information revolving around current global and national weather, forecasts and general information. (UK)

• Weathernet: Provides access to thousands of meteorological sites around the world, from which weather maps. weather forecasts, climatological information, climatic data, radar images, satellite images and software can be obtained. (US)

• Nottingham University Meteosat Images: Provides access to visible, infra-red and water-vapour JPG images from the geostationary satellite Meteosat 6 and other satellites. An introduction to meteosat and explanations of the various types of images available is provided here. (UK)
• University of Reading European Weather Images: Provides access to weather maps, still and animated satellite images, upper air analyses, precipitation maps and temperature maps from all over Europe. (UK)

• University of Köln Latest surface weather charts for Europe: Provides access to still and animated satellite images and a host of other images from around the world. (Germany)

• Charles Stuart University Weather and Global Monitoring: Holds current satellite imagery. The images provided are of the pacific hemisphere, Australia, Antarctica, Japan, China and Korea. (Australia)
• NOAA Satellite Information System: Provides NOAA operated satellite information for direct readout station operators and users of environmental satellite data. Limited information is provided for the satellites operated by non-US countries and entities. Includes general information about satellites, schedules, navigation information and publications.

• National Climatic Data Center Weather Data: World's largest active archive. Produces numerous climate publications and responds to data requests from all over the world. (US)

• Radcliffe Meteorological Station: Providing historical data and current observations in the form of barometric pressure, dry and wet bulb temperatures, humidity, soil temperatures, visibility, cloud cover and a number of other observations. (UK)
• San Francisco State University Jet Stream Analysis and Forecasts at 300 mb: Forecasts for the Eastern Pacific and Western North America, the Northern Hemisphere and North America. Also available is a four week archive of jet stream analysis and a general description of jet stream analysis and forecast maps. (US)

Education Materials

• University of Edinburgh, Meteorology Department Computer Aided Learning in Meteorology: Provides a wide variety of information about computer-aided learning in meteorology.(UK)

• Radley College: Holds two good examples of meteorology projects carried out by schools. Oxmet: Holds ideas for projects, information about strange weather facts, weather quizzes and much more. MetNet Europe: An international weather project involving schools exchanging weather data. (UK)

• Indiana University Weather and Climate: Discusses the physical processes underlying weather and climate, and applications of fundamental skills (mathematical and interpretative) in environmental science. Includes a detailed introductory lecture programme, exercise questions and also past examination papers. (US)
• USA Today Teaching of Weather Concepts: Large database of information teaching introductory meteorology. Contains specialised sections discussing various aspects of meteorology, namely Hurricanes, Tornadoes, Thunderstorms and Hydrology. (US)

• PSC Meteorology Program Cloud Boutique: Provides in-depth cloud classification details as well as individual cloud descriptions and pictures.(US)
• The Weather World 2010 Project: Integrating current and archived weather data with multimedia instructional resources.(US) Guides include Reading Weather Maps and the more in-depth Meteorology Guide: The contents of which are listed below: -
• Air masses and fronts
• Clouds and precipitation
• El Niño
• Forces and winds
• Hurricanes
• Hydrological cycle
• Light and optics
• Midlatitude cyclones
• Severe storms
• Weather forecasting

• Meteorology Frequently Asked Questions: This is the introduction to a series of Frequently Asked Questions postings for the Usenet newsgroup sci.geo.meteorology. These postings are intended to answer the general question, "Where can I get <X>?" for just about any value of <X> relating to meteorology.
• National Oceanic Atmospheric Association Weather Glossary for Storm Spotters: A glossary containing weather related terms. Attempting to achieve a level of standardisation in the definitions of the terms that are used and also provide a reference from which the meanings of any terms, especially the lesser-used ones, can be found. (US)
• University of Illinois Satellite Meteorology Instructional Module: Examines weather satellites and their capabilities, in particular Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites and Polar Orbiting Environmental Satellites. Also, demonstrates how to interpret visible, infrared and water vapour channel satellite images. (US)

Electronic Journals

• Royal Meteorological Society Weather: Provides title and author listings of all published articles after 1994, subscription details are also available. (UK)
• Royal Meteorological Society Meteorological Applications: Provides title and author listings of all published articles after 1994, subscription details are also available. (UK)

• Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society: Complete text is available for issues from February 1996 onwards, and parts of earlier issues are also available. (Australia)
• Asian Meteorology On-line: Provides world-wide news, conference reports and fairs and also full text articles. Freely available on-line. (US)
• Intermet: Electronic magazine providing full text versions of current and past journal articles published, also provides submitting details for models and papers.(US)