General data

Weather buoys - Buoys and lightvessels providing hourly data around the world.

UK weather map - Graphical representation of reports from airports, airfields, weather buoys, etc. Including wind, temperature, dew point, pressure & visibility.

Global towns & cities - Local weather conditions around the world, as forwarded by the U.S. National Weather Service.

Met. Office 2013 monthly weather summary - including rainfall, sunshine and temperature. (See also Env. Agency in rainfall section).

Inshore Waters - Coastal weather conditions from the Met. Office. Shipping forcast also available.

TORRO - Tornado and Storm Research Organisation.

Isle of Wight weather - Very comprehensive site.

Honiton Weather - Comprehensive data in Devon.

Solent area

Weather beacons:

ChiMET - Chichester Harbour entrance.

CamberMET - Inside Chichester Harbour.

SotonMET - Southampton Dockhead.

BrambleMET - Bramble Bank Beacon in the middle of the Solent.

Vision Link images: Needles Lighthouse; Hurst Castle; Hurst Spit

Sea state

UK wave forecast - from the National Centre for Ocean Forecasting.

North Atlantic - wave height plus many other forecasts from the US Navy's FNMOC, 0-180 hours ahead.

Pressure

24 36 48 60 72 96 120 hours ahead - medium term pressure forecast. From the Met. Office via the Wetterzentrale.de.

3-7 day pressure & wind - colour charts from the ECMWF (doesn't work correctly with Firefox).

Barometric pressure - including trend, from the National Physical Lab. at Teddington.

Cloud Satellite images

General - See the Met. Office radar link below; various data layers can be selected.

Alternative - regular updates from Dundee Satellite Receiving Station; requires free registration.

Temperature

Met. Office Weather Observations website - data from a huge number of sites all over the U.K. and at various locations around the world.

Global sea temperature - daily data from the University of Wisconsin.

Rainfall

UK radar - from the Met. Office - very useful with clear graphics.

Meteoradar - updated every 5 minutes.

Water situation, weekly rainfall and river flow reports - from the Environment Agency.

Lightning activity

Lightning - Europe - Strike locations, density, etc for Europe & individual countries. From a network of over 100 lightning detector users.

Lightning - northern Europe - Useful site with data from Newport, Isle of Wight - one of the contributors to the above network.

International Center for Lightning Research & Testing - At the University of Florida.

Weather data collection utilities

Forecastfox - For users of the Firefox browser, this is a free 'extension' which collects weather data for one or more locations & displays it in a selectable position on the browser.

Wetsock - Automatically collects airfield data for chosen locations around the world when connected to the internet. Shareware ($12), with some weather report update restrictions when unregistered.

Last updated July '14. Any comments are welcome on the feedback page.

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