Wiki weather

[rbstokes]

Does anyone know of an wiki site or anything that has historical signifigant weather data. While im not busy here i like to research past signifigant weather events that i remember from my younger days, derechos in SE michigan specifically. Then i came up with the idea to have such place, where people have experienced and remembered these events and could put their input in to allow for historical weather research. It could include experiences, pictures, recorded data, etc... what ever is available. I would just like to see something like that, what are your opinions?

 

[KFackler]

SPC has a Severe Thunderstorm Event page where you can look up events by date (data starts Jan 2000). Once you find the date you are looking for, it has sfc analysis, upper-air, sat/rad, and SPC products. It's pretty useful if you know the date of the event you are looking for, otherwise it is hard to find the actual date if all you remember is just the details of the event.

Sorry, forgot the link...

http://www.spc.noaa.gov/exper/archive/events/index.html

 

[Simon Andersen]

R, for past derecho-events I would use: http://www.spc.noaa.gov/misc/AbtDerechos/derechofacts.htm#historic There is a handful of Michigan-occurrences included in this report.

 

[rdale]

I think what he's talking about is a site where chasers / observers / etc. could put their stuff up on a central location. Right now things are scattered among thousands of blog sites, FB pages, Flick folders, etc. It would be nice if a "weather wiki" existed to allow everyone to add individual reports, stories, imagery, and the like.

 

[rbstokes]

rdale, thats correct. Ive seen the above pages but i was thinking that this stuff is not well documented. that way people interested in studying these events could do so. Destructive weather history is just something that interests me so my idea of a centralized area of documentation would be just that.