Links
ManUniCast has compiled a list of sites that provide weather and air-quality observations and forecasts for the Manchester area, UK and world.
Whilst we will endevour to check that no links are broken, should you find a broken link, please contact us to let us know.
Manchester Surface Weather Observations
- Whitworth Observatory, University of Manchester campus:
http://www.cas.manchester.ac.uk/restools/whitworth/data/ - Manchester Airport: NOAA
http://weather.noaa.gov/weather/current/EGCC.html
Manchester Air-Quality Observations
- Whitworth Observatory, University of Manchester campus:
http://www.cas.manchester.ac.uk/restools/whitworth/data/airquality/index.html
UK Surface Weather Observations
- Met Office:
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/observations/ - WunderMap: Weather Underground
http://www.wunderground.com/wundermap/ - XCW Weather:
http://www.xcweather.co.uk/ - Roger Brugge's page:
http://www.met.rdg.ac.uk/~brugge/ - WeatherObservationsWebsite: Met Office
http://wow.metoffice.gov.uk/ - Marine Weather Buoys:
http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/maps/United_Kingdom.shtml
UK Air Quality Measurements
(The results are based on the maximum air quality index measured across all stations in each region. For the current day, the map is based on the most recent measurements. For historical days, it displays the daily maximum air quality index.)
- Scottish Air Quality Measurements:
http://www.scottishairquality.co.uk/ - ACTRIS (Aerosols, Clouds, and Trace gases Research InfraStructure Network):
http://www.actris.net/ - EUSAAR (European Supersites for Atmospheric Aerosol Research):
http://www.eusaar.net/ - EMEP (European Monitoring and Evaluation Programme):
http://www.emep.int/
World Surface Weather Observations
- European Severe Weather Database:
http://www.essl.org/cgi-bin/eswd/eswd.cgi - World Weather Information Service: World Meteorological Organization
http://worldweather.wmo.int/
Air Quality Observations and Forecasts
- UK DEFRA
http://uk-air.defra.gov.uk/ - Europe: Finnish Meteorological Institute
http://silam.fmi.fi/AQ/operational/europe/
Upper-Air Observations
(Profiles of temperature, moisture and wind from instrumented weather balloons):
- Global: University of Wyoming
http://weather.uwyo.edu/upperair/sounding.html
Lightning Data
- European Cooperation for Lightning Detection
http://www.euclid.org/realtime.html - Europe: Blitzortung
http://www.blitzortung.org/Webpages/index.php
Meteorological Charts
- North Atlantic Ocean 500-mb map (roughly 5.3-5.9 km above sea level): NOAA
http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/fax/PPAA10.gif - weathercharts.org:
http://www.weathercharts.org/ - Large-Scale Analyses: ECMWF
http://www.met.reading.ac.uk/Data/CurrentWeather/
Satellite Imagery of Clouds and Winds
- UK and Ireland: sat24.com
http://www.sat24.com/en/gb - Europe: sat24.com
http://www.sat24.com/ - Global: NASA
http://weather.msfc.nasa.gov/GOES/ - Global Winds: NOAA/NESDIS
http://manati.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/datasets/OSCATData.php
Radar Imagery of Precipitation
- UK: Met Office
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/radar/ - UK: Netweather
http://www.netweather.tv/index.cgi?action=radar;sess= - UK: Rain Today by Meteogroup
http://www.raintoday.co.uk/ - Western Europe: meteox
http://www.meteox.co.uk/h.aspx?r=&jaar=-3&soort=loop1uur
Other
- Chilbolton Observatory:
http://www.stfc.ac.uk/chilbolton/24989.aspx - NERC Mesosphere–Stratosphere–Troposphere Radar Facility at Aberystwyth
http://www.mstrf.eclipse.co.uk/ - WeatherSpark:
http://weatherspark.com/ - UK Weatherworld:
http://www.ukweatherworld.co.uk/ - Metbrief:
http://www.metbrief.com/index.html
Warnings
- UK Environment Agency Flood Risk:
http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/homeandleisure/floods/3days/125305.aspx - European extreme weather: Meteoalarm
http://www.meteoalarm.info/
Manchester and UK Weather Forecasts
- Manchester: Met Office
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/forecast/manchester - Manchester: BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/2643123 - Manchester: yr.no
http://www.yr.no/place/United_Kingdom/England/Manchester/ - Regional Atmospheric Soarding Prediction:
http://rasp.inn.leedsmet.ac.uk/
London Air Quality Forecasts
- London Air: London AQ Forecasts
http://www.londonair.org.uk/LondonAir/2012GamesVisitors/Forecast.aspx - airTEXT: Free air pollution, UV, pollen and temperature forecasts for Greater London
http://www.airtext.info/
UK Air Quality Forecasts
(These pages provide air-pollution forecasts from Defra and the Devolved Administrations. Here you will find daily updated forecasts of UK air pollution concentrations for up to 24 hours ahead. Forecasts are issued for sixteen urban areas and sixteen UK regions; these cover roadside, urban background and rural locations.)
EU Air Quality Forecasts
- Monitoring Atmospheric Composition & Climate (MACC)
http://www.gmes-atmosphere.eu/ - Modelling European Air Quality using MACC
http://macc-raq.gmes-atmosphere.eu/
US Air Quality Forecasts
- NOAA US AQ forecasts
http://airquality.weather.gov/ - US EPA AQ pages
http://cfpub.epa.gov/airnow/index.cfm?action=airnow.main
Links to Other Real-Time WRF-Chem Forecasts
- WRF/CHEM: Real Time Forecasts
http://ruc.noaa.gov/wrf/WG11/Real_time_forecasts.htm