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 Weather 

• AMS: Water in the Earth System
  Great page of links about water news, the atmosphere, the oceans, and other water-related earth science topics.
• Bad Meteorology
  Discusses common weather and climate misconceptions.
• Climate Timeline Information Tool
  "The Climate Time Line uses the exponential powers of ten to frame time periods from annual to 100,000 year scales..."
• Encyclopedia of the Atmospheric Environment
  Atmosphere, climate change, ozone, global warming, air pollution, and weather are among the topics covered.
• Forces of Nature
  Information and interactive guides from National Geographic about volanoes, earthquakes, hurricanes, and tornadoes.
• Jetstream: An Online Weather School
  Wonderful set of materials and links about weather and meterology.
• Meteorological Service of Canada
  "The Service monitors water quantities, provides information and conducts research on climate, atmospheric science, air quality, ice and other environmental issues..."
• National Climatic Data Center
  "NCDC is the world's largest active archive of weather data." Includes maps, satellite info, climate data, publications, a Global Warming FAQ, and more.
• National Weather Service
  From the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, this is the U.S. National Weather service page.
• NOAA
  The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has an excellent webpage about weather, climate, and ocean matters. Includes Climate Monitoring and Space Weather sections.
• Weather 101
  Subtitled "A resource for teachers and students", this site has tutorials, glossaries, maps, tables, and links to other resources.
• World Meteorological Organization
  "A United Nations Specialized Agency Working together in Weather, Climate and Water."

 Forecasts 

• Forecast Advisor
  Offers a 5-day forecast and will "provide links to your city's weather forecast at all the other weather forecasters, so you can compare..." them.
• Franklin's Forecast
  Information and projects related to weather forecasting.
• My Forecast.com
  "With over 26,000 US and 32,000 International unique forecasts, MyForecast is the leader for worldwide weather coverage."
• National Weather Service
  "The National Weather Service (NWS) provides weather, hydrologic, and climate forecasts and warnings for the United States, its territories, adjacent waters and ocean areas...."
• Weather.com
  Online site of The Weather Channel.
• WeatherMole
  A mashup of Google Earth and the National Weather Service which allows you to "click on the map to get a weather forecast."
• WeatherBonk
  Mashup of the weather channel, Google Maps, and other sources.
• Weather Underground
  Regional, national, or international weather in many languages, local satellite views, temperature, pressure, humidity, etc. in English or metric measurements.
• World Weather Information Service
  "This global web site presents OFFICIAL weather observations, weather forecasts and climatological information for selected cities supplied by National Meteorological & Hydrological Services (NMHSs) worldwide."

 Hurricanes 

• Animated Guide: Hurricanes
  A feature about hurricanes, typhoons and cyclones from BBC News.
• Hurricane Katrina
  • Hurricane Archive
  • NY Times: Hurricane Katrina
  • Wikipedia: Hurricane Katrina
  • Yahoo!News: Huricane Katrina
• Hurricane Preparedness
  Good overview of the basics, hazards, and forecasting of hurricanes. Includes nice animation on storm surges.
• Hurricane Tracker
  Video, images, and information on current and recent hurricane, from MSNBC.
• NASA: Hurricane Webpage
  Information, images, archives about current and recent hurricanes.
• National Hurricane Center
  Information, images, statistics, preparedness, a FAQ and more from NOAA.
• NOAA: Atlantic Hurricane Season Outlook
  Summary and analysis of predictions for the hurricane season by the National Weather Service.
• NOVA: scienceNOW: Hurricane
  Short video segment on hurricanes.

 Tsunamis 

• International Tsunami Information Center
  All sorts of information about tsunamis, from how they're caused to current news. Includes data on recent events and exceptional ones going back to the 1920s.
• National Geophysical Data Center: Tsunamis
  "NGDC and the co-located World Data Center for Geophysics and Marine Geology have compiled a unique set of tsunami-related products as part of a continuing program to support the interests of tsunami warning centers, engineers, oceanographers, seismologists, and the general public."
• NOAA: Tsunamis
  "NOAA has primary responsibility for providing tsunami warnings to the Nation, and a leadership role in tsunami observations and research." Includes tsunami basics, preparedness, NOAA's role in researching and tracking tsunammis, animations, and more.

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