Welcome to Year Thirteen

As we have changed to WJEC, here are some new powerpoints from classses etc that you can download! Below this is a fairly exhaustive list of weblinks to cliamte related resources, from Satellite images to educational materials.

Pressure Systems - How they form, how they move and how they groove...

Air Masses - How and why they form - Athough you will need my notes with this one!

Depressions - No, not just a Monday morning thing - but part of what drives our weather in the UK. Mmmm grey again, I see.

Humidity, precipitation and Clouds - Some background information as to how and why clouds form.

Wind - Too easy to make a joke from this, so I won't.

Resources

 
Satellite images
Climatic data
Time zones
National weather services
Webcams
Weather organizations
Weather observations
Education
Weather charts
Miscellaneous

Please note that GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) and UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) are for all practical purposes one and the same thing.

With regard to barometric pressure units, please note that 1 mb (millibar) = 1 hPa (hectopascal).
Satellite images

Images from the Dundee Satellite Receiving Station
Free pre-registration necessary:
To register, click here.

[Explanation of images] [How to interpret images][Latest British Isles images] [Archive of British Isles images (back to 1978)][Images from geostationary satellites] [Satellite-related websites]


Images from EUMETSAT
The European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites
 [Hourly images from the latest Meteosat geostationary satellite]


Time Zones

[Introduction to time zones] [Time now around the world][Where it is daylight now] [Times of sunrise/sunset][Sunrise/sunset/dawn/dusk]

Weather Webcams

[British Isles] [Europe] [World][Finland road weather cameras] [UK Weather watchers]


Weather Observations

Current weather and hourly for past 24 hours:
[At airports around the world] [At UK airports]

Current conditions and forecasts:
 [Weather Underground] [Westwind.ch] [Meteocentre (Europe)] [World Meteorological Organization]

The UK Met Office’s rolling archive of observations:
 [UK] [world]

The latest plotted observations (updated every six hours):
[British Isles] [France] [Germany] [Italy] [Scandinavia] [Spain] [Turkey] [Japan]

Upper-air data:
 [Soundings] [Charts]

The World Meteorological Organization’s Information Service:
 [World weather] [Current severe weather]
Weather Charts

Europe and eastern Atlantic (isobars and fronts):
 [latest weather map and forecast (animation)] [archive (back to 1998)]

Europe and eastern Atlantic (other charts):
 [isotherms and significant weather] [maximum/minimum temperatures] [sea-surface temperatures]

Other parts of the world:
 [South Africa and Southern Ocean] [Australia] [New Zealand] [India and Indian Ocean]
[USA] [North Pacific] [South Atlantic and South Pacific]
Climatic Data

World climate:
 [WorldClimate.com] [Klimadiagramme] [World extremes] [Climatic regions (data and descriptions)]

UK climate:
 [Home] [Averages] [UK extremes]

Weather Organizations

[Royal Meteorological Society] [American Meteorological Society][Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society] [Environment Canada] [US National Weather Service][Météo-France] [European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts] [World Meteorological Organization]
Weather Education

Royal Meteorological Society material:
[for age group 7-11] [for age group 11-19][Weather on the Web] [Climate on the Web]
Year 13 and Miscellaneous Links

[Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ)] [ITCZ cloud clusters] [Tropical cyclone names] [NASA Hurricane Resource Centre] [Tornadoes] [El Niño][UK ozone site (Cambridge University)] [US ozone site (Environmental Protection Agency)]