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The weather resources on the Internet are many and varied. They range from highly sophisticated dedicated sites to national newsfeeds that produce fairly comprehensive weather reports, to regional bodies that include new weather conditions as part of their online news service. These are television and radio stations or local newspapers. In addition, the major search engines have a weather system that allows you to view forecasts in your area.

In all cases, however, weather data collected mainly from domestic sources - in almost all cases, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NOAA. We will review here the main dedicated online weather sites, and give a quick review of what the search engines and news sites, national planning.

Perhaps the best known commercial site dedicated weather www.weather.com, a spin-off of the cable television network The Weather Channel. This site lets you punch in your zip code for local weather, city or name of city / location to another. The website will give you readings of temperature, wind chill and precipitation forecasts. It will provide forecasts on an hourly, for the weekend, and peer into the future with a forecast of ten days on a single page. Graphics include photos, satellite and Doppler radar shows storm movements.

Much of this information is collected on the site of the NOAA National Weather Service. Forecasts Here you will find "official" weather in the U.S. Navy, fire and aviation, warnings, climate forecasts and information about meteorology www.nws.noaa.gov/. NOAA has an extensive network of weather stations nationwide, providing readings for very localized areas. It is also easy to use, with a wealth of visual information provided by satellites and other graphical tools. There is a large amount of marine meteorological data available here.

The Weather Underground (www.wunderground.com) is a spin-off from the University of Michigan Weather site. Weather Underground is a commercial site full of advertising that presents its estimates based on postcode, town, or on an interactive map of the United States. He also forecast international - click country - and a complete list of maps on its homepage that show national trends in factors such as temperature, wind, visibility, precipitation, snow depth, etc. Register with them and send ten dollars and they "ll email you your daily forecast.

The University of Michigan at Ann Arbor laboratory Weather: http://cirrus.sprl.umich.edu/wxnet/ is among the pioneers of online weather products. Currently, they maintain a quality site national weather forecast - but perhaps their most valuable resource is time for addicts on their list of 300 links to sites related weather.

Intellicast (www.intellicast.com) is a national advertiser supported site will also send you your daily forecast. Their site offers a clickable map and the usual categories of satellite and long-term forecasts. Www.weather.org is another lesser national websites which is exclusively for time. Their site has an interesting map of the conditions in the world that is constantly evolving as the center of their homepage. With the normally localized and national feeds, the site offers Weathercam, tides and currents, and the commentary of the Almanac of farmers.

Other sites include dedicated www.AccuWeather.com and www.Weatherbug.com. Weatherbug offers downloadable software that allows your local weather and weather. Yahoo and Google offer capabilities to both weather forecasts, as well as national news feeds. CNN.com / Weather transmit new international weather and five day forecasts by region. USA Today global forecasts and information on meteorological topics such as global warming at: http://as.