Weather and GIS

Find weather related geographic data and GIS tools.

Armchair Storm Tracking
Thanks to a roundup over on the Google Earth Blog, you can now track upcoming storms on Google Earth.

Climate Prediction Center
Shapefile format data for U.S. drought monitoring support.

Historical Hurricane Tracks
Access over 150 years of Atlantic hurricane data from NOAA’s Historical Hurricane Tracks page. You can search on a variety of parameters such as U.S. ZIP code, state or county, or latitude and longitude points or search by year or storm name.

National Weather Service GIS Data Portal
Launch page to finding geographic data in mostly shapefile and KML formats.  Access data for current weather, forecast and historical weather.

Wind and GIS
Find resources for the application of GIS in wind mapping, analysis and modeling.

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