Additional Documents, Links, and Resources about Weather and Accuracy

Weather Forecast Accuracy Articles

These are articles and other information about calculating the accuracy of weather forecasts.

Accuracy Calculations — How Does ForecastAdvisor Calculate the Accuracy of Weather Forecasts?

Calculating Precipitation Error — Article on how precipitation accuracy and other statistics like forecast bias are calculated.

Forecasting Temperature Extremes — Article analyzing how forecasters do on days when temperatures are far from normal.

Best Weather Forecast Sites

These are the best weather forecasting sites on the web. All of these weather forecasters provide free worldwide forecasts and have other great features.

Accuweather — Features Hour-by-Hour and 15-day local forecasts for over 2.7 million locations; extensive radar and maps; weather news stories, videos, and blogs; extreme weather and health indices.

Intellicast — Detailed weather and forecast information around the globe. Features include surface maps, charts, satellite imagery, and recreational outlooks.

MyForecast — Features forecasts, reports and maps for global locations.

National Weather Service — Official U.S. weather, marine, fire and aviation forecasts, warnings, meteorological products, climate forecasts and information about meteorology.

Weather.com — Offers forecasts for cities worldwide as well as radar and satellite maps. Also includes news stories and allergy information.

Additional Weather Sites

These websites are great, but provide regional or niche weather forecasts or other information relating to weather and weather forecasting.

Mid Atlantic Weather — Maryland, Virginia, and D.C. weather supersite.

San Antonio Weather — Weather links for San Antonio, Texas.

SLO Weather — San Luis Obispo weather portal.

Storm Laboratory — Windows weather forecasting and observation graphing software and consulting.

USA Today Weather Blog — A great, multiple posts per day weather blog written by the weather editors at the USA Today newspaper.

Weathercore.com — A very comprehensive weather link directory. You will find links containing weather model information, tropical storm information, educational sources, and more.

Other Interesting Sites

These sites are regional or local sites, website directories, or have other information that would be of interest to those curious about the weather.

NaturesList.org — Resources about weather, the environment, natural living, and more.

Travel Notes — The Online Guide to Travel is a very organised travel directory providing information on every country in the world with reviewed web sites, regular travel articles and many travel-related sub-directories.

WXDirectory — Weather resources and links.