Wills' Weather Wiki
Welcome to the Weather Wiki where you can learn more about the weather. This will not train you to be a meteorologist but will teach you more about storm chasing and how weather works. While I try to bring the language down to the common person, it may lose the meaning in translation. I try to ensure there are links back to the original source as a reference.
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Forecasting
Most people just want to know what the weather is right now, in the next few hours, or in the upcoming days. Here are some resources of good places to get your forecast.
Using Radar
Radar is one of the most important tools used for tracking storms. Knowing how to read it becomes important. Below are the sections that can help.
Tools
There are many tools that weather lovers use. Here are some of the types of tools they use.
Learning About Weather
There are many resources out there for free to help you learn more about weather and weather forecasting. This section should give you a good start.
- Beaufort Scales (Wind Speed)
- Explanation of SPC Severe Weather Parameters
- Tornado Wind Speeds (Fujita Scale)
- Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale
- JetStream - An Online School for Weather
- Converted Knots to MPH
- Links from my Dog Days of Podcasting Podcast
- Severe Weather
- Training Sources
- MetEd Summer Severe Weather
- Terminology
- The Ultimate Weather Education Website
- Time Conversion
- Weather Prediction Center Product Legends