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