More Interesting Weather on the Web.

(The picture is a satellite image from NASA's MODIS website of the California fires on June 25, 2008)

Written By: Brian Neudorff

It amazes me almost every day the amount of information one can find, on just the weather alone, through the internet. The internet is one of my primary tools to get weather information, aside from actually experiencing it. It has helped me become familiar with the climatology and weather history of my new home here in Western New York, and most of the information I need to put together a forecast can be found online. Sometimes with all the information that is out there you can find yourself getting over whelmed. That is why over the course of the year I would like to display a page or two that you might find interesting when it comes to the weather.

The first page I am going to show you is NASA's MODIS (or Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) website. NASA describes MODIS as:

...a key instrument aboard the Terra (EOS AM) and Aqua (EOS PM) satellites. Terra's orbit around the Earth is timed so that it passes from north to south across the equator in the morning, while Aqua passes south to north over the equator in the afternoon. Terra MODIS and Aqua MODIS are viewing the entire Earth's surface every 1 to 2 days, acquiring data in 36 spectral bands, or groups of wavelength,

What I love about this site is all the great images you get of our planet. From the image above of the California wildfires, or the floods in the Midwest, I have seen amazing hurricane images, to even a lake effect snow event in New York and you have access to this and many other images from all over the world.

If there is a site you would like to share please feel free to do so in our comments section and if you would like direction on where to find more weather information on a specific weather topic please leave that in the comment section as well.