IMPACT 2015 - 2016: STORM Project Resources

Professor Alan Czarnetzki Email: Alan.Czarnetzki@uni.edu

STORM Project STORM's Level 1 Classroom Activities: Activities Images

STORM Forecasting Exercise STORM's Level 2 Classroom Activities: Activities Images

Resources for Surface Weather Observations

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Persistence: Hourly Reports for Waterloo Hourly Reports for Iowa in table format; from within the map, click on station of interest Other States

Hourly Reports for Iowa in plain language (reports contain 6-hourly highs and lows at appropriate times)

Cooperative Stations gives you access to daily local reports

NAM (North American Mesoscale model): Waterloo

GFS (Global Forecast System): Waterloo

Hourly Weather Forecast Graph from the National Weather Service: Waterloo

Forecast Surface Weather Maps NWS Weather Prediction Center

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National Weather Service Forecasts:

Forecasting with Conceptual Models:

Note: The wind direction change options are Steady, Backing, or Veering. When the wind direction changes in a

clockwise sense over time, we say it's veering (e.g., when a south wind becomes southwest over time).

When the wind direction changes in a counterclockwise sense over time, we say it's backing (e.g., when a south wind

becomes southeast over time)

Weather on Your Birthday:

Web Cams in Iowa - great way to practice identifying cloud types and cloud cover!

To get to archived images: Go to Iowa Environmental Mesonet

1) select Archive, then 2) select Time Machine, then 3) use the Product drop-down menu to select a camera