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[unome]

NWS Enhanced Data Display http://preview.weather.gov/edd/

their facebook page gives some tips for using https://www.facebook.com/nwsedd

definitely a learning curve, but I love this site - give the Help section a read before dismissing it, it helps

from their fb page, an explanation:

"A little background first before I address your points. This tool was created out of user need. After arriving in Charleston, WV to start the Pilot Project, we found that our users were not very happy with what we had to offer on the web. Every WFO has a different webpage and it is hard to find basic things that you would want to look at: radar, satellite, observations and warnings without first having to figure out where it was stuffed at and second getting to the data (there were too many boundaries, mainly at the WFO level). Second, this projects goal is to give our users a bridge between when watches and warnings are issued (this could take awhile to explain but suffice it to say, it’s a look at the downstream potential for storms to become severe). At the time, there wasn’t a good medium to share this with to our users. Now, with EDD, there is. It brings all of the relevant information into one place. You can with one or two clicks – get our warnings, forecast, interact with hourly weather graphs, sample observations, etc. The cool thing is, the framework was developed with our users needs in mind – in fact, many of the things in there were suggested by our users. For an example of the power of the interface, you can target a specific user group with a switch in the url (http://preview.weather.gov/edd/?t=marine) this transforms EDD into a marine centric interface – you could do that for just about any user group. Granted this functionality hasn’t been fully developed, it’s a start. If anything, it acts like a GIS allowing layering and high end users can quickly assemble DSS graphics using it. So far, the feedback from our user groups has been very positive and this has only been out a couple of weeks.
Many of the items you suggested are on the radar for additions, sampling data, simplified station plot (just a weather icon and temperature), contours would be great for LSR type information. Yes, all of those would be great additions. Right now, we only have one developer actively coding up the interface. We would love to have a team of 3 to 5 people working on this, but we don’t have those kind of resources, so we did what we could and ended up mining many of the great ideas from the NWS as a whole and putting that work into this one interface.
The EDD is not technically a website. It’s more of an application – like if you were trying to run ArcGIS in a web browser. It does have requirements: the faster the internet the better (we download at 0.1 MB/second here and that is slow, but fast enough to run EDD), it should be run in a webkit browser like (Firefox, Chrome and Safari are examples of this) – though it still functions in Internet Explorer because we are aware many government agencies and our users only have this browser. 1 to 2+ GB of memory will also help. We realize that it won’t work for everyone, but that is the truth for many things. Chris has been putting together a few tutorials on how to use it more effectively and I believe that will help with some of the growing pains.
This project is still in its infancy, so there are a lot of improvements/modifications to be made. If you have suggestions on how to make it better, continue to share them. We really appreciate the feedback , and hopefully you can see what we are trying to do here."

[Ptarmigan]

Daily Weather Map
http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/dailywxmap/index.html

Daily Weather Map Since 1870
http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/dwm/dat ... _maps.html

You see weather maps going back to 1870. One look at what the surface and even upper level was like in a particular weather event.

20th Century Reanalysis Daily Composites
http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/cgi-bin/da ... .day.v2.pl

20th Century Reanalysis Monthly Composites
http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/cgi-bin/da ... 0thc.v2.pl

Both are similar to Daily Mean Composites and Monthly/Seasonal Climate Composites, but goes back to 1871 and up to 2010. You can see what the surface to upper levels were like.

[unome]

NESDIS' new look http://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/

I had their Precip Products fav'd for extreme rain events, had to update my bookmark: http://www.ospo.noaa.gov/Products/atmosphere/spe/

archive: http://www.ospo.noaa.gov/Products/atmos ... chive.html