What Model Sites Do Everyone Use?

[Bill Hark]

Being somewhat old fashioned, I generally use UCAR
http://www.rap.ucar.edu/weather/model/index.php?model=ruc

along with Earl's pages.
http://wxcaster.com/experimental_products.htm

I then supplement with the SPC SREF page
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/exper/sref/

and NCEP WRF
http://wwwt.emc.ncep.noaa.gov/mmb/mmbpll/cent4km/v2/

sometimes, I use DuPage's model site:
http://weather.cod.edu/analysis/

For long range GFS, I like:
http://www.idonthaveawebpage.com/

and ECMWF (European)
http://www.ecmwf.int/products/forecasts/d/charts/medium/deterministic/msl_uv850_z500!Geopotential%20500%20hPa!72!North%20America!pop!od!oper!public_plots!2007042912!!/

I use several sites in case is not updating.

Bill Hark

 

[Rob Lightbown]

First....THANK YOU to everyone who responded with their preferred model site picks. They have been a BIG help. I have a followup question....what factors go into the 3 hour/12 hour/24 hour Calibrated Severe Thunderstorm index on SPC's SREF model site http://www.spc.noaa.gov/exper/sref/ and furthermore, how accurate is it??

Thanks again for all the input!!

 

[Terry L. Schenk]

Sites

Rob: First off, thanks for the site that you have put together. In my tropical weather impact forecasting in Florida, I have used your site
( http://www.crownweather.com/tropical.html) for reference on a number of occasions, given all that you assembled is available in one location.

As to the the sites I find useful for severe weather forecasting and chasing, there are a number of them that folks have already mentioned including Earls pages, COD, NCEP, and UCAR RAP. A couple of others that allow some great looping of the models are:

WX FORECASTER
http://wxforecaster.com/ncep/java/new/test/all.html

and one with an interesting URL:

NCEP Central Operations
http://www.idonthaveawebpage.com/

Good topic to post as I have enjoyed visiting some of the sites that others use.

 

[Randall Roy Chamberlain]

Here is my favorite one it's a website of Albert Pietrycha and here is the web address:

http://www.stormeyes.org/pietrycha/noll.html click on any state and the rest is very easily understandable.

 

[Rob Lightbown]

Thanks for the comments on the website Terry!! They are appreciated very much. Just to let you know I have taken some of the links suggested in this thread and have incorporated them into my Severe Weather Page. The severe weather page is a work in progress and I am always looking for suggestions!!

In addition, all of the links provided are and will be a big help to me personally. My fiancée and I are now in stage 1 of Operation GOOMBAQ (Get out of Maine Butt A!# Quick). We are both so sick of the snow and cold (Caribou, which is in the northernmost part of Maine has recorded a record 193 inches of snow this winter!!) and we are planning on moving to Lubbock, TX in two years once Meg, my fiancée graduates from college with her Bachelors in Social Work (She graduates in May of 2010). She wants to go for her Masters at Tech and I'd like to FINALLY go for my Bachelors and then Masters Degree in Meteorology (In 2 years I'll be 36 years old). I know Tech doesn't have a bachelors degree in meteorology, so I'll probably have to look at another major to get those fundamentals needed for my Masters that I can get at Texas Tech (Advice anyone??)

Why Lubbock?? Well Meg's dad, mom and sister all live there and to be honest we both really like the area. But first things first, she has to finish college and we both have to get financially settled before making the move.

Until then, I'm going to really try my hand at forecasting severe weather events in the southern Plains and see how I do and maybe, just maybe you may see me out there chasing with the rest of you in 3 years or so. I've forecasted New England weather pretty much all my life and this will be a big change in thinking!!

So any pointers any of you can give on forecasting in the southern Plains, and especially the Lubbock area would be appreciated very much!!

 

[Kevin Crawmer]

Where do most of you get your long range skew t and hodos at? I usually use the storm machine, but that has been down of late. Ideas for anything more than 48 hrs out?

 

[Bob Schafer]

I use http://weather.cod.edu/fsound/

But, like everything CoD, it doesn't work properly. ONLY the GFS works (at least for me. Any other models on there work for anyone else?)

It's nice to be able to choose lat/lon for an fSounding, instead of being limited to just a site!

Or, you can use Earl's:

http://www.wxcaster.com/models_main.htm

Scroll about 60% down there.

 

[Aaron Wesson]

Earls is one of the better ones for sure!

 

[Adam Ball]

I use http://weather.cod.edu/fsound/

But, like everything CoD, it doesn't work properly. ONLY the GFS works (at least for me. Any other models on there work for anyone else?)

Technically speaking that's not an opperational page. It was intended to be, but all the bugs could never be quite worked out completely, and to a satisfactory condition to make it public.