| The weather resources on the Internet are many | | | | Much of this information is gathered from the |
| and varied. They range from highly sophisticated | | | | NOAA's National Weather Service website. Here |
| dedicated sites to national newsfeeds that | | | | you will find "official" U.S. weather, marine, fire and |
| produce fairly comprehensive weather reports, to | | | | aviation forecasts, warnings, climate forecasts and |
| regional news organizations that feature weather | | | | information about meteorology at The NOAA has |
| as part of their online news service. These can be | | | | a massive network of weather stations |
| from TV and radio stations or local newspapers. | | | | nationwide, providing readouts for highly localized |
| In addition, the major search engines have a | | | | areas. It's also user friendly, with a wealth of |
| weather feature that allows you to consult for | | | | visual information provided by satellites and other |
| forecasts in your local area. | | | | graphics tools. There is a vast amount of marine |
| In all cases, however, their weather information is | | | | weather data available here as well. |
| gathered principally from national sources - in | | | | The Weather Underground ( is a spin-off of the |
| almost all cases, the National Oceanographic and | | | | University of Michigan's weather website. Weather |
| Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA. We're | | | | Underground is a commercial site peppered with |
| going to review here the principal dedicated | | | | advertising that presents its forecasts based on |
| weather sites online, and give a quick critique to | | | | zip code, city, or on a clickable U.S. map. It also |
| what the search engines and national news sites | | | | has international forecasts - click by country - and |
| provide. | | | | a comprehensive list of maps on its home page |
| Perhaps the best known dedicated commercial | | | | that show national trends for such factors as |
| weather site is a spin-off of the cable television | | | | temperature, wind, visibility, precipitation, snow |
| network The Weather Channel. This website | | | | depth, etc. Register with them and send ten |
| allows you to punch in your zip code for local | | | | dollars and they'll email you your daily forecast. |
| weather, or a city/town name for some other | | | | The University of Michigan at Ann Arbor's |
| location. The site will give you temperature | | | | weather lab: is among the pioneers of online |
| readings, wind chill and precipitation forecasts. It | | | | weather products. Currently, they maintain a |
| will provide forecasts on an hour-by-hour basis, | | | | quality national weather forecast site - but |
| for the weekend, and will peer into the future | | | | perhaps their most valuable resource for weather |
| with a ten-day forecast on one page. Graphics | | | | addicts is their list of 300 links to weather related |
| include satellite photos and Doppler radar | | | | sites. |
| representations of storm movements. | | | | |