Friday, June 24, 2016

Weather and Climate

Weather Underground is a great day to day weather snapshot site. What they call hyper local weather allows you to take micro-climates across a specific region or sub-region—which could be very helpful in prediction and following species in an area. It also has an interactive satellite map which makes you feel like you are in a real weather room and a popular cities capability so you can monitor your favorite places globally all with a quick glance.
Check out their site here: https://www.wunderground.com/ 

Climate.gov provides data snapshots, data gallery and a climate dashboard. The information here is visualization heavy, so it is great if you need to include graphs or charts with any research you are doing and it also has a teaching climate section that provides a lot of information about climate literacy and provides teaching resources.
Check out their site here: https://www.climate.gov/maps-data

The University of Virginia Climatology Office is unique in that it has links to all sorts of other information, such as general climate, drought, fall foliage, astronomical information, lightning, etc. I will definitely be referring back to this site for information both locally and for camping adventures across VA. While collection of information is great, a lot of their links need to updated. Check out their site here: http://climate.virginia.edu/online_data.htm

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