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A Hurricane Hunter's Photo Album - A photo album and virtual tour with many pictures of typhoons and hurricanes taken from an airplane by an ex-Hurricane Hunter
All You Need to Know About Lightning - Detailed information, photographs and video of lightning, thunder, sprites, elves, blue jets, and myths and mythology.
Atlantic Hurricane Information Network - Hurricane news, tracking, imagery, and special reports.
Atlantic Tropical Weather Center - A rich source for data, research, and current tracking information about Atlantic tropical hurricanes and storms.
Australian Severe Weather - Australian and US storms and storm chasing of severe weather. Over 7000 photographs and storm videos, storm tours, storm chases, tornados, hailstorms, thunderstorms, tropical cyclones, latest satellite images and weather maps.
Breaking New Video Network - Professional storm chaser videos. Large on line downloadable stock video collection.
Caribbean Hurricane Network - Indepth information, weather discussions and local reports regarding tropical storms and hurricanes threatening the Caribbean islands.
Central Pacific Hurricane Center - National Hurricane Center's start page for Pacific typhoon information.
Colorado Lightning Resource Center - Resource for lightning information for the state of Colorado. Knowing more about lightning, its causes, and some basic safety rules can help you and your family avoid needless exposure to the dangers of lightning. NOAA (government site)
Dr. Gray's Tropical Storm Forecasts - Current forecasts and past reports on hurricane activity in the Atlantic.
Elite Storm Chasers - Storm chase pictures, chase logs, a chat room, message board and weather forecasts.
FEMA - Fact Sheet - Tornadoes - Tornado safety tips from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Fog - Definition, characteristics and historical examples of fog as a natural hazard based on information taken from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and other government sources.
Global Atmospherics Lightning Detection - Global Atmospherics provides lightning and thunder storm detection equipment and services worldwide.
Hook Echo - This site provides reference material on the history of storm forecasting, research and chasing.
How Stuff Works: Tornado - Illustrated basics about tornadoes and how they are rated.
Hurricane Advisories - Hurricane advisories, satellite views, watches and warnings, local statements, hurricane climatolgy, and past hurricane tracks.
Hurricane Alley - The Weather Station's "Hurricane Alley" contains detailed information about tropical cyclones worldwide. Maps and graphics are available on active and past hurricanes, some found nowhere else on the Internet.
Hurricane and Storm Tracking - The latest animated plots and information on tropical storms and hurricanes in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
Hurricane Resources Compiled by About.com - Links to resources and information pertaining to hurricanes, typhoons, and tropical cyclones.
Hurricanes and Coastal Storms - Background information for journalists on hurricanes, preparedness, and coastal development.
Hurricanes: An Online Meteorology Guide - Sequenced web sections covering definitions and mechanics of a hurricane, stages of development, physical structure, the influence of global winds on hurricane movement, satellite imagery and other tools meteorologists use, safety preparations, and destructive features associated with hurricanes. Includes a 3-D virtual reality view inside a hurricane and an interactive tracking exercise for Atlantic hurricanes 1950 to 1998.
Illinois Tornadoes - Tornado information and links with an emphasis on Illinois.
In Search of the Perfect Storm - Wayne Curtis on tornado and lighting chasers and the hunt for "torn porn". Atlantic Online article.
Infography about Lightning - Sources recommended by a professor who specializes in the study of lightning.
Information Please: Lightning - A short brief on lightning lore, statistics, and safety tips.
International Pacific Research Center - Providing an international, state-of-the-art research environment to improve understanding of the nature and predictability of climate variability and regional aspects of global environmental change in the Asia-Pacific sector.
Kansas Tornado Chasers - Photos, history, and video clips of Kansas tornadoes, along with current weather.
Lightning and Atmospheric Electricity at the GHCC - Lightning and Atmospheric Electricity at the GHCC (NASA). Learn about LIS, OTD, LMS, and other space based lightning detection instruments designed, built, and maintained by the Lightning Team.
Lightning Information Center - National Weather Service, Melbourne, Florida. A resource of lightning information for east-central Florida.
Lightning Links - Links to relevant news articles and other sites on lightning, photos, lightning variations, fulgerites, lightning victims, books, and research sites. An extensive and useful compilation.
Lightning Protection Institute - The Lightning Protection Institute is a nationwide not-for-profit organization and provides information on lightning safety and lightning protection systems for commercial and residential structures.
Lightning Strikes - Storm chasing information, weather photographs, recorded sounds, free desktop theme and screensaver, and links.
Lightning: The Shocking Story - The science and the stories behind the bolts that strike our earth a hundred times every second. National Geographic report on lightning.
Los Alamos Sferic Array for Lightning Studies - Lightning research using a ground-based array of low- frequency lightning electric field sensors. One data "product" is a daily map of lightning of a large portion of the contiguous United States.
Millennium Weather Tropical Page - A unique hurricane forecasting model, with loads of links to other weather sites for satellite imagery, warnings, research, and analysis.
Minnesota Storm Intercept Association - University Storm Chasing team with Minnesota State University Mankato. Chase accounts, nowcasting, and membership information available.
Monsoons and the Tropospheric Biennial Oscillation - Brief review of the monsoon basics and the tropospheric biennial oscillation.
National Hurricane Center / Tropical Prediction Center   - Complete information on Hurricanes and Tropical Storms, including all advisories, watches and warnings.
National Lightning Safety Institute (NLSI) - National Lightning Safety Institute performs Consulting, Education, and Research relating to lightning hazard mitigation. Lightning exhibits random and unpredictable behavior. By adopting a proactive defense, safety levels can be improved and harmful consequences from the effects of lightning can be reduced.
National Severe Storms Laboratory - The National Severe Storms Laboratory is one of NOAA's internationally known Environmental Research Laboratories, leading the way in investigations of all aspects of severe weather. Headquartered in Norman OK with staff in Colorado, Nevada, Washington, Utah, and Wisconsin.
Nature's Most Violent Storms - Information about tornadoes from the National Weather Service.
Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Operational Support Center - Distributing current storm information, satellite images, warnings, and reports to U.S. fleets in the Atlantic, Pacific, Caribbean, Berents Sea, and elsewhere around the world.
Ohiosevere.com - A resource for weather enthusiasts, weather spotters and storm chasers in the Ohio Valley. Daily forecast for severe weather and links.
Online Tornado Museum - Electronic museum is an educational look at the tornado. Most of the exhibits are photographs with explanatory text.
Palm Beach Post Storm Warning Center - Latest news, information, and chat concerning tropical storms and hurricanes affecting the U.S.
Rotation-X: The Next Dimension of Storm Chasing - A group of storm chasers from the University of Oklahoma. Weekly polls, Weekly Images, Daily forecasts and discussions, chase logs and pictures!
Savage Planet: Deadly Skies - How Lightning Forms - A Channel Thirteen presentation shows how lightning is formed and research with triggered lightning. The animation "A Cloud-to-Ground Strike" provides a clear basic understanding. There is access to other phenomena on this "Savage Planet" plus lightning links
Sept. 11 Close Lightning Strike - Rare lightning bolt caught on film on September 11, 2002. Contains pictures and an MPEG video for one of the oddest lightning bolts caught on film.
Severewx.com's Storm and Tornado Chasing Page - Contains tornado and severe weather pictures, chase reports, storm chasing how-to guides, other severe weather links, on-line presentations, and a store for weather products.
SkyScapes - images of clouds - Collection of photographs of cloud formations, organized according to standard cloud classifications.
SPC Historical Tornado Data Archive - Tornado documents, graphs and maps compiled and sorted by state/territory.
Storm Chase News and Archives - A chronologically organized list of links to reports on and photos of individual tornado and other severe weather events.
Storm Spotter's Guide - An illustrated guide to identifying severe storms from the NOAA.
Stormgasm - A storm chasing site containing a variety of storm chasing pictures from mainly tornado alley including supercells, tornadoes, wall clouds, hail, sunsets, rainbows, and funnel clouds.
The Disaster Center Tornado and Severe Weather - Tornadoes, weather watchers, fact sheet statistics for every state, and links to the Disaster Center states pages.
The Nebraska Storm Chaser Page - A resource for chasing in Nebraska. Chase accounts, photos, resources, current weather, and links oriented to storm chasing in Nebraska.
The Weather Stop - Current "as it happens" Lightning data from The Weather Stop.
Tim's Cloud Chart - Cloud chart that contains all of the major cloud groups, along with pictures and detailed descriptions of each.
Top Weather, Water, and Climate Events of the Twentieth Century (Story 334) - Background information on the top weather events around the world. Compiled by NOAA.
Tornado Alley - Twisters, tornadoes and Storm photos with educational information.
Tornado General Information - General Information on tornadoes, which includes safety tips and terminology page.
Tornado Links - This site has links to news and information about tornados.
Tornado Project Online! - A company that researches, compiles and makes tornado information available to tornado and severe weather enthusiasts, the public, the meteorological community and emergency management officials in the form of tornado videos, tornado books, and tornado posters.
Tornadoes - Suffolk Community College - Website researched and built by the ES17 Honors class of Suffolk Community College. Includes information about formation, structure and measurement of tornadoes. Also information on other storm processes.
Tornadoes and Tornado Research - A comprehensive website on tornadoes with information on how tornadoes form, and what to do when a tornado strikes. Also featured pictures of tornadic damage, information on current tornado research, and an extensive list of links.
Turn! Turn! Turn! - Scientific America's in-depth look at tornadoes, including multimedia simulations on how they develop.
Under The Meso - Huge collection of Tornado, Lightning and Storm Structure pictures from the plains.
Unisys Weather: Hurricane and Tropical Data - Central source for a wealth of hurricane and cyclone information from around the world including enhanced satellite images, graphical maps, streaming video weather front projections, tracking graphs and charts, text-based tables of tracking information with latitude and longitude positions, maximum sustained winds in knots, and central pressure in millibars. Includes an archive of past storms.
Unisys Weather: RCM Radar Images - A wide variety of real time weather maps. This web site contains thousands of weather related images. As a result, links to these images are grouped by data type, image type and region.
University of Hawaii Meteorology - Central site for marine weather information, including raw and enhanced satellite images, tropical weather alerts, forecast models, and weather research.
USA Today - Lightning information index - Lightning information index. Lightning creates thunder. By definition, a thunderstorm has thunder, which means it has lightning even if you don`t see it. How lightning reaches the ground.
Virginia Severe Weather Page - Photos and video of lightning, tornados, hurricanes. Info on tropical Atlantic. Hurricane terms you should know. Hurricane categories and intensity scale. Hurricane Intercept Research Team Member.
Vortex100 Storm Chase Page - Valuable resource page for storm chasers, including a daily 5-Day Severe Weather Discussion and forecast, tools for forecasting severe thunderstorms and tornadoes, and NCEP weather forecast models.
Weather Central By Mark - The site includes many pictures, facts, links, and other information.
Weather Picture of The Day Album - Photo album of weather pictures.
Weather Reports - A searchable database of storm events from the National Climatic Data Center.
Weather Web - The Resource for Weather in the Net: Lightning Network. Live Lightning maps, data, and photographs.
WeatherChase.com - Education friendly storm chase, tornado, weather, and other pictures.
Weird Weather Reports - Records anecdotal stories about hurricanes, fires, extreme temperatures, tornadoes, flooding, droughts and other weather related phenomena.
West Virginia Lightning - A compilation of a variety of educational resources, photos and sounds on lightning for all ages. Some excellent original photos.
whethernut's homepage - Weather site that includes lightning pictures, weather related pictures, favorite weather links, weather music.
Wild Weather - Daily news updates on severe weather phenomena happening around the world. Also includes original articles, storm chase video, a photo gallery, hurricane tracking, links, weather cams, and meteorologist profiles.