Weather Blogroll

- Weather and Climate Through the Eyes of Mark Vogan> - Mark is one of the most dedicated weather enthusiasts I've ever met. And we did meet, IRL (in real life) when he came all the way over from his home in Scotland to tour AccuWeather.com HQ last winter. His blog covers international weather news and (like me) he loves to quote stats about the weather.

- Metsul.com Blog (Portuguese - use Google Toolbar to translate). South America has its share of exciting severe weather (especially this year) but weather news rarely makes it out of there. I think it's because, unlike Europe & Asia, there are no networks in place to translate the news to get it out to the rest of the world. You can get the real scoop here from Alexandre Aguiar (who I frequently converse with via email) and his group of meteorologists -- with plenty of pictures and maps. Check it out, you won't regret it.

SECC CIMSS Satellite Blog - Two guys named Scott write this blog, one of whom I met in college at UNCA and one of whom I only converse with online (sidenote: I also applied for a job at the University of Wisconsin's SSEC after college). These guys are absolute experts about interpreting weather satellite images and they often post high-resolution images and animations (that you won't see elsewhere) about current weather events.

- Extreme Weather Examiner / Doug's Blog - There are a lot of "Examiner.com" weather blogs out there and frankly, few of them are useful. But Doug Kiesling (aka Lightning Boy / Weather Paparazzi) is (among all other things) an avid storm chaser and he puts up the latest videos from wherever he chases. If there's nothing going on, he'll show some amazing videos he has shot in the past. Doug's (other) Blog gives more personal and frequent updates. I have talked to Doug on the phone before and he will tell it like it is.

Extreme Weather Updates - Many of the people on my blog roll were with me when I ran WeatherMatrix.Net and Chris Burt is no exception. He wrote the book (literally) on Extreme Weather in 2003 and released an updated paper version in 2007 -- but he's been putting additional updates on his website ever since. This isn't a blog persay and doesn't have an RSS feed so you'll just have to bookmark it.

- Watt's Up With That? - This blog, written by Anthony Watts, who has had his hands in almost every sector of the weather business for many years, concentrates something that isn't covered elsewhere. When looking at data for Climate Change (Global Warming) we need to make sure that, above all else, the instrumentation that measures the data, and the data that is recorded itself, is sound. Anyone who has ever dealt with humans or computers knows that both can make mistakes and Anthony has made it his religion to investigate these like a CSI. I guarantee you will be surprised by what you read there.

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