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One of my personal interests is meteorology. It all started when I was growing up in central Massachusetts in the 1950s. When I was in 5th grade, we did a module on weather phenomena which I found especially interesting. Several hurricanes (Carol '54, Hazel '54, Connie '55, Diane '55) and a severe tornado in Worcester Massachusetts in 1953 captured my interest. About the same time, the first TV weather forecasters appeared. I participate in the Citizens Weather Observer Program [CWOP]--a public private partnership under which participants transmit weather data for use by a variety of government agencies [including National Weather Service forecast offices] and university atmospheric sciences program. Data from CWOPS participants helps to fill in the gaps between the sites where National Weather Service has either automated or manned weather stations. I also transmit data to Weather Underground, a commercial website offering up to date weather information via the Web. The Weather Underground is the world's largest network of private weather stations. My data for these two sites are at CWOPS/CW2224/National Weather Service and at Weather Underground KWARENTO9. In 2008 I started participating in CoCoRaHS--the Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network, which is based at Colorado State University. Precipitation amounts vary widely over even small geographic areas, so increased knowledge of precipitation patterns in important in development of water management policies and understanding the potential for floods, droughts. CoCoRaHS observers in all 50 states send their data in to a central Web site daily. I have collected a number of weather
links, which are categorized (more or less) below. Several weather cams and real
time weather sites are also included, especially for New England and Washington
state. This is the same page that I keep on my desktop, so the links should be
up to date. However, if you find a 404 error, email
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Copyright © 2010 Gerald M. Myers
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