Weather World

Weather is cool (or hot), often strange and always interesting. Here are some web sites to check out if you want to know more than if you'll need to carry an umbrella tomorrow.

Stormy Weather
The Storm Prediction Center, which is part of the National Weather Service, set up this site to predict tornadeos, blizzards, high winds, hurricanes and all manners of storms
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/

Space Weather
Want to check on the latest sunspots and solar flares? The current speed of the solar wind? Any geomagnetic storms coming our way that might disrupt radio transmission? This is the spot:The Space Environment Center of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
http://www.sec.noaa.gov/

Worst Weather
Mount Washington, the highest peak in the Northeastern United States, brags that it's got the worst weather in the country. Storms out of nowhere, high winds, extreme temperatures. Check out the "summit cam" at the top, inside the Mount Washington Observatory looking out.
http://www.mountwashington.org/

Cloud Bursts
Have you ever daydreamed that the cloud going by was a bunny or a bird? Here's a web site with lots of photos of clouds that look like things.
http://pals.agron.iastate.edu/carlson/main.html

Weather Jokes
What do you call it when it rains chickens and ducks? This site has more weather jokes, links to sites for kids and "recipes" for big weather events on this site done by sixth graders at the Hampton Bays Elementary School in Hampton Bays, N.Y. (And the answer is "fowl weather")
http://tqjunior.thinkquest.org/3805/