The webpage of the University of Wisconsin's tropical analysis page.

(UW-CIMSS/SSEC)

We all have our favorite websites either for getting work done, reading news, or enjoying a hobby.

You may wonder what the go-to weather websites are for our meteorologists.

Meteorologists and riffed about their favorites in a mid-December 2018 episode of .

Here isa summary of some of those sites. Click on the bolded text of each bullet point to check out each website.

Ari's Top Picks

: A great site run by Jeff Haby. Overall, the best site for weather nerds wanting to learn. : Clean model data and good analysis videos from Levi Cowan at Florida State : Paid site with impressive model forecast maps from Dr. Ryan Maue : This was my go-to for everything in college and my early career. They pretty much have everything you want, including models, current data, National Weather Service text products and a very unique, recognizable radar color table. : A great message board for weather geeks : Weird URL, but an awesome site for international weather information set up by former digital meteorologist Tim Ballisty. : Where you can download the most useful weather software, particularly for radar analysis

Jonathan's Top Picks

: A spectacular site for satellite imagery. You can choose between GOES-East, GOES-West, Himawari-8 (west Pacific), even JPSS for views of polar regions. In addition toconventional visible, infrared and water vapor imagery, you can also view GOES global lightning mapper data. It even allows you to pull up archived imagery. : You can dive deep into analysis of active tropical cyclones worldwide, including microwave imagery, satellite-derived wind analyses and ocean heat content. : You not only can pull up today's snow cover maps, but also for any day since 2003. : The New Hampshire mountaintop weather observatory has live webcams, current conditions and a compelling blog in one of the most extreme environments on Earth. : Speaking of extreme, if you want to see what life is like in America's northernmost town, Utqiagvik (formerly known as Barrow), or if you want to see what limited twilight is like in the dead of winter, this is your cam. : A national network of trained volunteers taking precipitation data that supplement official NWS observations. There's usually at least a handful of impressive rain or snow totals in every decent storm due to the efforts of these volunteers. : A solid page for analysis of ongoing tropical cyclones. What puts this page over the top for me, though, is the satellite analyses of entire tropical basins for wind shear and Saharan air layers. The MIMIC microwave satellite loops of intense tropical cyclones are always a show-stopper. : My go-to page for microwave satellite image analysis of an active storm. : The Tropical Meteorology Project at Colorado State University, headed by Dr. Phil Klotzbach, keeps both real-time and archived statistics on not simply the number of tropical cyclones in each basin, but also the accumulated cyclone energy (ACE), a better measure of how active each basin is each season. : A fantastic tool to plot temperature and precipitation totals, departures, and rankings over a given period of time. : Weekly analyses of current drought areas, comprehensive discussions, and archived maps give you a sense of how drought develops and erodes over time.

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