BYU ESC Weather Station - Weather Links

Assorted Weather Links

Last update: 1 March 2006 (all links were working)

NOAA pages
- NOAA Home Page (http://www.noaa.gov)
- NOAA National Weather Service Home Page (forecasts, maps, charts, etc.) (http://www.nws.noaa.gov)
- Raw GOES Satellite Imagery page (http://www.goes.noaa.gov)
- National Weather Service Western Regional Headquarters (http://www.wrh.noaa.gov)
- National Weather Service Salt Lake City Office (http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/slc)
  - Current satellite imagery (Western U.S.) (http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/satellite/?wfo=slc)
  - provo conditions, forecast, and cameras (http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=40.2471&lon=-111.6427)
  - Snow, Backcountry, Avalanche Forecasts, Mountain Observations (http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/slc/snow/)
- World Meteorological Organization (http://www.worldweather.org)
- NOAA National Center for Environmental Prediction (http://www.ncep.noaa.gov)
- NOAA Storm Prediction Center (http://www.spc.noaa.gov)
- NOAA National Hurricane Center (http://www.nhc.noaa.gov)
- Navy Joint Typhoon Warning Center (Pacific tropical weather) (http://www.usno.navy.mil/JTWC)
- NOAA Severe Storm Laboratory (http://www.nssl.noaa.gov)
- NOAA Space Environment Center (space weather predictions) (http://www.sec.noaa.gov)
- NOAA Lightning Safety Page (http://www.lightningsafety.noaa.gov)
- Hypothermia.org - valuable information on avoiding and treating hypothermia (http://www.hypothermia.org)
- National Climate Data Center (http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov)
- U.S. Drought Monitor from Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln (http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu)
- USGS real-time river conditions (http://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/rt)
- National air quality predictions (http://www.airnow.gov/)
Local weather conditions and forecasts
- Collected Utah Weather and Climate Information and Links (http://utahweather.org)
- Provo-BYU climate summary (from Western Regional Climate Center) (http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/cgi-bin/cliMAIN.pl?utpbyu)
- Provo City Airport (One of the official weather stations) (http://weather.noaa.gov/weather/current/KPVU.html)
- BYU SWKT Weather Station maintained by the BYU Geography Department (http://www.aws.com/full.asp?id=prout)
- BYU ESC Weather Station maintained by the BYU Department of Physics and Astronomy (https://marvin.byu.edu/Weather/index.html)
- BYU Baseball Stadium weather (not updated regularly except during the summer) (http://www.conservewater.utah.gov/et/etsite/BYU.htm)
- Automated stations available through ROMAN (Real-time Observation Monitor and Analysis Network). This list covers the I-15 corridor in Utah County, ordered from north to south.
  - Point of the Mountain
  - Alpine
  - Alpine DW2624
  - Eagle Mountain DW6014
  - Highland N7HRX
  - Saratoga Springs CW6171
  - Lehi DW6494
  - Pioneer Crossing
  - Timpanogos Divide
  - Pleasant Grove
  - Lindon
  - Orem DW8711
  - Orem KF7K
  - Provo Canyon (mile post 10)
  - Cascade Mountain
  - North Provo
  - BYU Eyring Science Center
  - Provo Municipal Airport
  - Spanish Fork CW9348
  - Spanish Fork
  - Red Narrows (US 6)
  - Payson DW5744
  - Payson Ranger Station
  - Santaquin
  - A list of available stations in Utah (LOTS of them) (http://raws.wrh.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/roman/raws_ca_monitor.cgi?state=UT&rawsflag=290&timeobs=12&orderby=n&type=0)
- Springville Weather Station (http://www.brentsweather.com)
- Current weather at the Saratoga Pumping Station (north end of Utah Lake)
- Weather Channel (http://www.weather.com/weather/local/84602)
- Accuweather's Provo forecast (http://wwwa.accuweather.com/adcbin/public/local_index.asp?zipcode=84602)
- Intellicast's Provo forecast (http://www.intellicast.com/IcastPage/LoadPage.aspx?loc=kpvu&seg=LocalWeather&prodgrp=Forecasts&product=Forecast&prodnav=none&pid=none)
- Northern Utah radar loop (http://www.intellicast.com/IcastPage/LoadPage.aspx?loc=kslc&seg=LocalWeather&prodgrp=RadarImagery&product=JavaLoop&prodnav=none&pid=none)
- Weather Underground forecast for Provo (http://www.weatherunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=84602)
- Cameras in Utah (http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/slc/camera)
  - Camera looking north from the BYU ESC (Mount Timpanogos) (https://marvin.byu.edu/Weather/getTimpImage.html)
  - Camera looking east from BYU WSC (Y-Mountain) (http://webcams.byu.edu/view/view.shtml?imagePath=http://128.187.50.247/axis-cgi/mjpg/video.cgi&size=1)
  - Camera looking north-northeast from BYU Bookstore (Brigham Square) (http://webcams.byu.edu/view/view.shtml?imagePath=/mjpg/4/video.mjpg&size=1)
  - Camera looking northwest from BYU SWKT (Traverse Ridge) (http://psych.byu.edu/view/lab.htm)
  - The Timpview High School camera has finally died. This link is to the "memorial" page. I'm sure if someone wanted to donate a webcam to the High School they could bring this one up again.
- Utah road conditions (http://511.commuterlink.utah.gov/tats.web.report/)
- Utah snowpack report (ftp://ftp.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/data/snow/update/ut.txt)
- Utah air quality report (http://www.airquality.utah.gov/aqp/utah-currentconditions.html)
- Flash flood forcasts for Utah (http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/slc/flashflood)
- Utah Avalanche Center (http://www.avalanche.org/~uac/)
- Current level of Utah Lake (http://www.cuwcd.com/operations/resgrphs/utahlake.htm) Note that Utah Lake is actually a reservoir, primarily for water users in the Salt Lake Valley. The control of the level of the lake is determined by a management plan developed in 2005 to protect the interests of the water users and the landowners around the lake.
Weather conditions and forecasts for other areas
- The Ultimate Weather Resource Guide is aimed primarily at those travelling or relocating. It has a large number of links to useful resources.
- NOAA's North Pole web site (including a web cam!) (http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/gallery_np.html)
- Automated weather source sites (hundreds of schools) (http://www.aws.com)
- Weather at various Utah schools (http://www.pgjr.alpine.k12.ut.us/science/james/schoolswx.html)
- Intellecast site (http://www.intellicast.com)
  - Surface Map (http://www.intellicast.com/IcastPage/LoadPage.aspx?loc=usa&seg=LocalWeather&prodgrp=SurfaceMaps&product=SurfaceAnalysis&prodnav=none&pid=none)
  - Upper Air map (http://www.intellicast.com/IcastPage/LoadPage.aspx?loc=usa&seg=LocalWeather&prodgrp=SurfaceMaps&product=JetStream&prodnav=none&pid=none)
- Weather Underground (http://www.underground.com)
- Ski Resort Conditions (http://resorts.mountainzone.com)
- Accuweather (http://www.Accuweather.com)
- CNN weather site (http://www.cnn.com/WEATHER/index.html)
- Unisys Weather site (http://weather.unisys.com)
- Latest Global Weather Conditions (http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/comp/latest_cmoll.gif)
- Utah climate data (http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/summary/climsmut.html)
- Utah State Climate Center (http://climate.usu.edu)
University of Utah Meteorology Department
- University of Utah Meteorology Department (http://www.met.utah.edu/)
- University of Utah Department of Meteorology Weather Center (http://www.met.utah.edu/wx/)
- Provo climate data (http://www.met.utah.edu/jhorel/html/wx/climate/provo.html)
Sites with information about aurora and space weather
- Space weather tutorial introduction (http://www.phy6.org/Education/Intro.html)
- A space weather page (http://www.phy6.org/Education/weather.html)
- Good space weather tutorial from Goddard Space Flight Center (http://www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/Education/wtail.html)
- NOAA Space Environment Center (space weather predictions) (http://www.sec.noaa.gov)
Sites with lots of links to other information and good articles
- KSL (http://www.ksl.com/TV/weather/index.php)
- KTVX (http://www.good4utah.com/weather/)
- KUTV (http://kutv.com/weather)>
- USA Today Weather Page (has a collection of good weather articles) (http://www.usatoday.com/weather/wfront.htm)
- David James' weather links (Pleasant Grove Jr. High) (http://www.pgjr.alpine.k12.ut.us/science/james/weatherlink.html)
- BYU Physics 137 supplementary links (http://www.physics.byu.edu/faculty/petersonb/Phys137/Supplementary.html). This is a collection of links that I have accumulated as I have taught Physics 137 at BYU. They are actually in support of the materials covered in the Introduction to Meteorology. But there are lots of interesting pictures and tidbits buried in this list.