Favorite Weather Information Links (2024 Edition)

[ZLoth]

(Updated for 2024, and apologies for the poll)

Here are some helpful location-based weather links that you can personalize. I intentionally set the latitude/longitude to DFW Airport, so a quick search and replace of the links with your where you work/live and then saving the bookmark would come in handy:

Example Latitude: 32.8976
Example Longitude: -97.0405
Example Weather Office: FWD

• Real Time Lightning Map - https://www.lightningmaps.org/#m=oss;t=3;s=0;o=0;b=;ts=0;tsc=1;y=32.8976;x=-97.0405;z=10;d=2;dl=2;dc=0;
• AviationWeather Radar - https://aviationweather.gov/gfa/?center=32.9946,-97.0405#obs
• ZoomRadar - https://builder.zoomradar.net/zoomradar_weather_map/weather_page.php?fullscreenMode=1&key=mUFo4HJQc5bqLDz&w=2560&h=1440&z=9&lat=32.89766&lng=-97.0405&lo=Logo%20Tx%20Storm%20Chasers.png
• VentuSky - https://www.ventusky.com/?p=32.8976;-97.0405;5&l=temperature-2m
• Windy - https://www.windy.com/?32.8976,-97.0405,10
• PurpleAir - https://map.purpleair.com/1/mAQI/a10/p604800/cC0#9/32.8976/-97.0405
• ClearDarkSky - http://www.cleardarksky.com/cgi-bin/find_chart.py?disp=gmap&title=Search+Results&keys=&skip=0&Mn=photoshop&radius=100&olat=32.8976&type=llmap&nrecs=200&olong=-97.0405&unit=1
• Storm Based Warnings by Point (top half) and NWS Watch/Warning/Advisories (bottom half) - https://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/vtec/search.php#eventsbypoint/-97.0405/32.8976
• NWS Special Weather Statements (SPS) - https://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/nws/sps_search/#bypoint/-97.0405/32.8976
• Local Storm Reports/Storm Based Warnings - https://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/lsr/#FWD
• Cow (Storm Based Warning Verification) - https://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/cow/?wfo=FWD&hail=1.00&lsrbuffer=15&warnbuffer=0.01&wind=58&wtype%5B%5D=TO&wtype%5B%5D=SV&wtype%5B%5D=MA&wtype%5B%5D=FF&wtype%5B%5D=DS&ltype%5B%5D=T&ltype%5B%5D=D&ltype%5B%5D=H&ltype%5B%5D=G&ltype%5B%5D=MA&ltype%5B%5D=FF&ltype%5B%5D=DS

I love the Real Time Lightning Map whenever a thunderstorm rolls through my area. I turn on the computer hooked up to my 55" 4K television in my office and temporarily bump up the resolution from 1920×1080 to 3840×2160. The Mesonet links are great for pulling up historical notifications.

Any more handy ones?

[BigRedDog]

I appreciate this Severe Weather Warnings Page that lists all NWS warnings by NWS office. Helpful when tracking storms through various regions.

https://kamala.cod.edu/svr/

The only potential problem is that NWS offices aren't always tied to a major metro/city. For example, the Wilmington, Ohio office covers Cincinnati and Columbus.

[epzik8]

I love IEM's databases, although most laymen would probably struggle with them.

[gonealookin]

I like NOAA's GOES satellite imagery.  Index here:

https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/index.php

Pick your region (would be GOES-East Southern Plains for DFW) and then under GeoColor I like the Animation Loop set to 24 images which is 2 hours worth.

[ZLoth]

Bumping because of recent weather.

[ZLoth]

Bumping because of Helene...

[epzik8]

Bumping because of Helene...

Hopefully she won't affect my upcoming visit to see my dad and stepmom in Florida.

[PColumbus73]

This is the channel I watch whenever they post about hurricanes, he's informative and doesn't exaggerate.

https://www.youtube.com/@Tropical-Tidbits

[ZLoth]

Bumping because of the upcoming severe weather.

https://twitter.com/NWSWPC/status/1875480344688030167

[Road Hog]

Don't know how I missed this thread earlier. I use Blitzortung for lightning maps (I need it for my work) and Pivotal Weather (same) to see what the models say — they picked up the February 2021 polar vortex early on and we were as ready as we could be. I was able to see this latest polar plunge as a possibility the last weekend of 2024 and it panned out, although I'll only get grazed.