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A List of Learning Resources

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http://www.theweatherprediction.com/ - Was my Mecca for learning the basics. I strongly advise anyone learning or brushing up on their skills to go here. There are even quizzes in there to help you out and before long you will have the basic understanding and can start applying that knowledge into your chasing or forecasting

Thanks Danny. This is a very good site with helpful information. I really liked how the explanation on hodographs was done - appreciate the suggestion.
 
Thanks Bob! If anyone has any links they'd like me to include, just let me know.
 
Gosh, thanks to everyone for all the links, and for this entire website. Anything I have had question's on is so far very searchable and answered! :)

Now I have some reading to do.
 
I'm not sure if this is where I should ask, but I would think it would be better just to ask here rather than start a new thread because I know one has already been made in regards to the subject, but I'm having a hard time finding it.

Can anyone point me in the direction for SFC and UPPER AIR data dating back to 1998? Free source?

Thank you.
 
I'm not sure if this is where I should ask, but I would think it would be better just to ask here rather than start a new thread because I know one has already been made in regards to the subject, but I'm having a hard time finding it.

Can anyone point me in the direction for SFC and UPPER AIR data dating back to 1998? Free source?

Thank you.

Just doing a quick search I came up with these two sites:

http://weather.uwyo.edu/upperair/sounding.html
http://data.nssl.noaa.gov/dataselect/

That second one looked really good, but it appears the site may be down (hopefully just temporarily) as I can't get it to spit out any data.

You can get archived surface data here: http://www.wunderground.com/history/
 
Can anyone point me in the direction for SFC and UPPER AIR data dating back to 1998? Free source?

Free: Skip's URLs above are good... also see www.esrl.noaa.gov/raob for upper air data. Wunderground also has individual METARs going back decades.
Not free: http://www.weathergraphics.com/archive/ (but much more complete)

<cite></cite>I have a vested interest in that last link, but I figure I'd point it out anyway since I've been collecting datasets since 1993.

It's kind of ironic that NCDC has a colossal data archiving service but people have to to ESRL for raw upper air data. And I hear NOAA researchers have been able to see NCDC's Form 10 observation archive online for years, yet NCDC's public site still looks like it was designed in 1987 and you've got to receive the Form 10s via the same procedure they offered 30 years ago (I'm not kidding, either). :(

Tim
 
Thanks for compiling such a great list of resources. It's really made it easy to figure out what I don't know (which is just about everything) and start learning it.
 
Just a quick thanks to Ric Burney and Dneal for the links! I found them very useful!
 
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