General data

Weather buoys - Buoys and lightvessels providing hourly data around the UK.

UK weather map - Graphical representation of reports from airports, airfields, weather buoys, etc. Including wind, temperature, dew point, pressure & visibility.

Global towns & cities - Local weather conditions around the world, as forwarded by the U.S. National Weather Service.

BBC broadcasters and Terry Scholey - Long term weather forecast for the month(s) ahead. Updated weekly (BBC broadcasters) or monthly (Scholey).

Met. Office 2007 monthly weather summary - including rainfall, sunshine and temperature. (See also Env. Agency in rainfall section).

Inshore Waters - Coastal weather conditions from the Met. Office.

Shipping Forecast - From the BBC.

TORRO - Tornado and Storm Research Organisation.

Solent area weather beacons

ChiMET - Chichester Harbour entrance.

CamberMET - Inside Chichester Harbour.

SotonMET - Southampton Dockhead.

BrambleMET - Bramble Bank Beacon in the middle of the Solent.

Sea state

black background European wave height forecast, 0-72 hours ahead, from the U.S. Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center. white background   black background North Atlantic wave height forecast from FNMOC, 0-144 hours ahead. white background

Pressure

24 36 48 60 72 96 120 hours ahead - medium term pressure forecast. From the Met. Office via the Wetterzentrale.de.

Pressure, 0-84hrs - alternative colour charts from the Met. Office.

3-7 day pressure & wind - colour charts from the ECMWF.

Barometric pressure - including trend, from the National Physical Lab. at Teddington.

Cloud Satellite images

Infra-red - Water vapour & Visible cloud images also available. Updated hourly, from EUMETSAT.

Infra-red - Updated hourly, EUMETSAT images relayed by the UK Met. Office.

Alternatives - regular updates from Dundee Satellite Receiving Station; requires free registration.

Temperature

Minimum european temperature - last night.

Maximum european temperature - yesterday.

Global sea temperature - daily data from the University of Wisconsin.

Rainfall

UK radar - from the Met. Office - very useful; quick loading & clear graphics.

Environment Agency monthly rainfall report - including percentage of long term average.

Lightning activity

Lightning - Europe - Strike locations, density, etc for Europe & individual countries. From a network of over 100 lightning detector users.

Lightning - northern Europe - Useful site with data from Newport, Isle of Wight - one of the contributors to the above network.

International Center for Lightning Research & Testing - At the University of Florida.

Sprites - technical - Info. on sprites from Alaskan researchers.

Sprites - images - Sprites info. from NASA.

Weather data collection utilities

Forecastfox - For users of the Firefox browser, this is a free 'extension' which collects weather data for one or more locations & displays it in a selectable position on the browser.

Wetsock - Automatically collects airfield data for chosen locations around the world when connected to the internet. Shareware ($12), with some weather report update restrictions when unregistered.

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