Learning About Weather


SEVERE WEATHER EDUCATION/ TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES

NWS: Straight-Line Winds (Excellent!)

Thunderstorm and Tornado Basics: (NWS Brochure - PDF)
NEW! Online Severe Weather Training (NWS - Excellent!)
Fema for Kids (Excellent!)
Storm Chaser's Web
Extreme Convective Windstorms: Current Understanding and Research
Tornado and Severe Weather Shelters

Tornado Safety Tips
Fujita and Enhanced fujita Tornado Scales, Images
The Tornado Page
Understanding Lightning/Safety Tips
NWS Louisville's Storm Spotter's Guide,
NWS Louisville's Advanced Storm Spotter's Guide, Slide Series,
NWS Convective Indices Guide (TT, LI, K, CAPE)

OTHER TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES
NOAA: Educational Resources
How to become an NWS Cooperative Weather Observer
Radar Training for Emergency Managers (NWS)
NWS Cooperative Weather Observer Program


GENERAL WEATHER EDUCATION
NWS: Training Tutorials (Excellent!
History of Weather Radar in the United States (NOAA)
History of Weather Services in the United States (NOAA)
Frequently used contractions in NWS products
Priddy's Rules-of-Thumb (R.O.T.), Slide Show (HTML)
4-H Weather Project: Weather Variables
UKAWC Weather & Cloud Pictures
PSC Cloud Boutique
Weather Map Symbols (AMS)
Station Model Symbols (NWS)
Jetstream (NWS)
Predicting Local Low Temperature
A Basic Weather Discussion on Surface Pressure Systems, Fronts, Jet Streams, and Precipitation
Advanced Weather Topics (NWS Louisville)
Using Your Home-Type Aneroid Barometer
The Southern Oscillation: El Nino and La Nina [CPC]
Cloud Types & Photos
NWS Contractions Used in Forecast Discussions
AEN 461G: Biometeorology
Oklahoma K-12 Weather Series
TAMU's Online Meteorology Guide
NWS Doppler Rader Basics
New Phased Array Radar
Satellite Tutorial (SF State)
UIUC's Online Meteorology Guide
Moisture, Humidity, etc (NWS)
Moisture, Humidity Equations
Vapor Pressure Equations
Pyschometric Equations
Numerical Forecast Model Preformance (NWS)
NOAA Weather Educational Resources (Excellent!)
Haby Met. Hints (Excellent!)
Weather words from the Glossary of Meteorology (Excellent!)

WEATHER SOFTWARE/PROGRAMS AND PHOTOS
NOAA Photos
NWS EMWIN System/Software

WEATHER CHARTS
Apparent Temperature
Livestock Safety Index

WINTER WEATHER
Wind Chill Index
Winter Precipitation Forecast Checklist
Understanding Wind Chill

Ag Weather Center, Department of Biosystems & Agricultural Engineering, University of Kentucky