Wills' Weather Page

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This page has many of the pages that Mike likes to look at on a regular basis.

NWS MPX
- Twitter
- Facebook
MPX HWO
MPX Weather Story
Local Forecast/Conditions
Hourly Weather Forecast for Mankato
Mobile Weather.Gov
CoCoRaHS - Precipitaion Totals
OpenWeatherMap
Spotter Activation Page
https://www.wrh.noaa.gov/mesowest/timeseries.php?sid=KMKT

Weather Prediction Center
- National Forecast Charts
- Interactive Forcast Chart
College of DuPage Forecast Page
WeatherBell Some models are free
VentuSky
National Digital Forcast Database
- Digital Weather
NWS Enahanced Data Display

Windy: Wind map & weather forecast
Tropical Tidbits GFS National - Free access to most forecast models.
pivotal weather GFS National
Temp Graphs from WX Bell
Weather Nerds

GFS

This older model is not as accurate. GFS is run four times a day and produces forecasts for up to 16 days in advance, but with decreased spatial resolution after 10 days.

GFS-FV3

Newer, more accurate GFS model. Still being developed.

NAM

Short-term weather forecasting. The model is run four times a day (00, 06, 12, 18 UTC) out to 84 hours.

NAM 3km

HRRR

The HRRR is a NOAA real-time 3-km resolution, hourly updated, cloud-resolving, convection-allowing atmospheric model, initialized by 3km grids with 3km radar assimilation. Radar data is assimilated in the HRRR every 15 min over a 1-h period adding further detail to that provided by the hourly data assimilation from the 13km radar-enhanced Rapid Refresh .

RAP

The Rapid Refresh is the continental-scale NOAA hourly-updated assimilation/modeling system operational at NCEP. RAP covers North America and is comprised primarily of a numerical forecast model and an analysis/assimilation system to initialize that model. RAP is complemented by the higher-resolution 3km High-Resolution Rapid Refresh (HRRR) model, which is also updated hourly and covering a smaller geographic domain.