Weather

The Weather Channel - Enter your ZIP code or city name for a thorough ten-day forecast, weather map, and current weather, from The Weather Channel. Though the page is graphic-intensive, it is user-friendly and informative.

National Weather Service - Although cumbersome to use, this site provides the official National Weather Service forecast. Click your local office for a map of current alerts and NWS forecasts.

Weather Underground - Weather Underground provides a plethora of data, including historic weather data back to 1994, including great forecasts and current conditions.

Intellicast - Enter a ZIP Code, airport code, city, or country name for a user-friendly ten day forecast along with quick access to maps, radar, NEXRAD, and more.

Weather.com News - The Weather Channel provides this one-stop resource for news articles about the weather around the world.

Yahoo Full Coverage - Severe Weather - Yahoo collects severe weather-related stories from around the United States and links to them here. When severe weather hits, this is the place to read the news about it.

USA Today Weather - The USA Today weather home page provides a nice collection of weather-related news from around the U.S.A.

U.S. Severe Weather Alerts - This wonderful map from The Weather Channel provides a quick glimpse of weather alerts across the U.S.A. Easily identifiable colors provide indications of which counties are under tornado, flood, hurricane, tropical storm, and thunderstorm watches or warnings.

National Weather Service - The National Weather Service home page provides a clickable map that indicates current watches and warnings nationwide. Click the map for the local NWS field office website and warnings.

IWIN National Warnings Area - This site includes the text of all current and active National Weather Service warnings, organized by type of warning. A state map shows which states have active warnings.

CNN.com Weather - Scroll down a bit on this CNN Weather home page for a collection of global satellite, temperature, and forecast maps. This is an excellent resource for overview continent maps.

Weather Maps by Geography - Weather.com provides an extensive collection of global weather maps - this page allows you to find a map based on the region of the world you're interested in.

Weather Maps by Type - Weather.com provides a plethora of maps focusing on various subjects - from sever weather to doppler radar to forecast maps and more.

Weather Maps - The University of Michigan provides over two dozen "raw" maps of weather data for North America, including heat index, high and low temperatures, upper atmosphere maps, and more.

About.com Weather - Edward Klappenbach has developed an amazing resource on About.com for all things weather-related. His site includes a plethora of well-written content about all aspects of geography and a collection of personally selected and annotated links to great weather resources.

Online Meteorology Guide - An excellent resource to learn the basics of meteorology - discover what causes wind, rain, clouds, and much more. Learn about the hydrologic cycle, El Nino, hurricanes, and severe storms.

NOAA Education - The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration provides educational material about weather and its scientific aspects through this comprehensive website.

USA TODAY Weather Resources - Scroll down this page to "Tools and resources" for USA TODAY's comprehensive encyclopedic reference about weather and the atmosphere.