Weather service URLs for NOAA

[rhmahoney]

Another strong thunderstorm front went through Des Moines last night. 2 days ago tornados touched down in eastern Iowa (missed all my Iowa City area relatives).

I opened my folder of weather URLs and monitored the incoming front all evening. It was comforting to see the red strong activity areas were not going to pass anywhere near me. Today I refined the URLs and added a new one:
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/outlook/
This gives several day predictions for severe weather. Now I no longer need to bother with the fluff, aural drivel and adverts of the weather channel!

Other favorite pages:
national map with radar overlay:
  http://radar.weather.gov/Conus/
national map with color coded temperature prediction for today
        http://www.weather.gov/forecasts/graphical/sectors/
national map with satellite view
  http://www.nws.noaa.gov/sat_tab.php
national map with doppler radar locations. Click on the blue buttons to get a local radar view
    http://weather.noaa.gov/radar/national.html

 

[Bob Zambenini]

Russ, here is one that is a composite which also combines pressure gradients.

http://weather.unisys.com/

Bob

 

[Jim Johnson]

This is the one I use for the gulf area.  http://www.ih2000.net/ira/bmt-wth.htm