Weather:
National and International Weather Agencies
Weather reporting and forecasting is a global activity. Every country needs accurate short term and longer range forecasts. Data is collected and exchanged between the national and international groups to build up a comprehensive picture of the global weather pattern. Weather crosses national boundaries and what affects one will affect another. Large scale effects (El Niño) affect many countries and people - prior warning helps to alleviate disaster and prepare for rain or drought.
Many of these sites provide a wide range of local weather, forecast, warnings and other materials. Most sites will provide links to satellite imagery of their own area. These sites are excellent starting points for comparative weather studies.
Links to national weather agencies
| Australia Bureau of Meteorology: News, Learning about Weather, Satellite images, Climate information, Sydney 2000 (planning for the next Olympics) | Austria ZAMG: (in German) |
| Belgium Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium: (forecasts in French and Dutch) | Brazil CPTEC: some parts in Spanish and Portuguese only |
| Brunei Brunei Meteorological Service | Canada Environment Canada: National Weather Service, climate etc. English and French |
| Chile Dirección Meteorológica de Chile: Pronóstico, Aviación, Imágenes, Climatologica, Agromet | Colombia Insitituto de hydrologia, meteorologia y estudio ambientales: |
| Denmark Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut: Forecasts in English, Danish and German | Finland Finnish Meteorological Institute: Weather and Climate, air quality etc. English and Finnish |
| France Meteo France: Today's weather, forecasts, climate, cloud types etc. Mostly in French with some English | Germany Deutscher Wetterdienst: Wetter und klima (in German) |
| Hong Kong Hong Kong Observatory. Weather forecasts and information, tropical cyclones, astronomical and tidal data, earthquake information. English and Chinese. | Hungary OMSZ: Hungarian Meteorological Service, reports and images, weather summaries for Hungary |
| Iceland Icelandic Meteorological Office: Forecast for Iceland | Indonesia Indonesian Meteorological Agency: Weather forecast for Indonesia, climate plus Earthquake and Tsunami information |
| Japan Japan Meteorological Agency: Forecasting, climate data for Japan | Korea Korean Meteorolgical Administration: Forecast, current weather, seismic information |
| KNMI, Netherlands Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute: Forecasts, climate etc. | New Zealand Meteorological Service of New Zealand: Forecasts - coastal, recreation, mountain etc. |
| Singapore Meteorological Service of Singapore: forecasts, current weather, local satellite images | Slovenia Hidrometeoroloski zavod Republike Slovenije |
| South Africa South African Weather Bureau: forecasts and current weather data | Spain Instituto Nacional de Meteorologia: Current weather, forecasts, charts etc. |
| Sweden Swedish Meteorological Institute: Forecasts and climate data | United Kingdom Meteorological Office: forecasts, satellite images, today's weather reports etc |
| USA - NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: top level access to US government services | USA - NWS National Weather Service: extensive collection of data and information |
| Zambia Zambia Department of Meteorology: Rainfall and crop forecasts | |
International Weather Agencies
| World Meteorological Organisation United Nations agency based at Geneva, Switzerland | ECMWF, Reading, UK European Community programme: Medium range weather forecasting using computer based modelling - based at Reading UK |
Page update: January 12th 1999
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