Weather and Climate Websites
weather.gov — National Weather Service
The official U.S. government weather site, operated by NOAA under the Department of Commerce. It provides local forecasts, graphical forecasts, aviation and marine weather, river and lake conditions, hurricane tracking, severe weather alerts, fire weather, long-range climate predictions, and even space weather. It's the authoritative source for weather warnings and watches across the United States and its territories.
worldweather.wmo.int — World Weather Information Service
This site is operated on behalf of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) by the Hong Kong Observatory. It serves as a global hub for official weather forecasts provided by national meteorological services worldwide, organized by region and country. It also links to resources like a severe weather portal, a cloud atlas, tropical cyclone forecasting tools, and a WMO radar database.
https://worldweather.wmo.int/en/home.html/
wunderground.com — Weather Underground
Weather Underground is known for its personal weather station (PWS) network and WunderMap, which aggregates data from thousands of citizen-operated weather stations. It offers local forecasts, radar, severe weather news, and historical weather data. It's owned by The Weather Company and is popular with weather enthusiasts who want hyperlocal data.
accuweather.com — AccuWeather
A major commercial weather forecasting service offering local and national forecasts, radar, severe weather coverage, and weather-related video content. AccuWeather is well known for its detailed, extended forecasts and its MinuteCast® feature providing minute-by-minute precipitation forecasts.
weatherbug.com — WeatherBug
WeatherBug offers current and extended local and national weather forecasts, live weather radar, weather news, temperature readings, a lightning tracker, and a hurricane tracker. It also features air quality indexes, pollen counts, allergy forecasts, weather cameras, and lifestyle-oriented weather information. It is a product of GroundTruth
earth.nullschool.net — Earth (Nullschool)
A stunning, data-driven visualization tool rather than a traditional forecast site. It shows current wind, weather, ocean, and pollution conditions as forecast by supercomputers on an interactive animated map, updated every three hours. Users can explore wind patterns, ocean currents, wave heights, atmospheric chemistry, air quality, and even space weather across multiple altitude levels and map projections.
windy.com — Windy
Windy provides a worldwide animated weather map with easy-to-use layers and precise spot forecasts, supporting over 50 weather overlays including wind, waves, and radar. It caters especially to kiters, surfers, paragliders, pilots, and sailors, and includes METAR, TAF, and NOTAM data for airports worldwide, as well as forecasts from multiple models including ECMWF, GFS, NAM, and NEMS.
shademap.app — ShadeMap
A highly specialized tool focused on sun and shadow simulation. It simulates every mountain, building, and tree shadow in the world for any date and time, and can be used to shadowmap a house or garden, calculate sun position and sun path, simulate shadows cast by buildings and terrain in 3D, and generate shadow accumulation maps — all online without needing to install Google Earth Pro. It's particularly useful for property buyers, gardeners, solar panel planners, and photographers.
sat24.com — SAT24
SAT24 is a satellite imagery service offering real-time cloud cover views for locations worldwide, with options including visible light, infrared, and nighttime microphysics images. The nighttime images allow clear visibility of fog and low-level clouds during dark hours. It also offers a combined radar and satellite view, lightning overlays, and HD imagery. It is a product of Infoplaza, one of the largest meteorological service providers for media, consumers, governments, and businesses.
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