Official HMT homepage.
Link to the writeable portion of the HMT Forecast Blog
NOTE: this is a restricted site requiring password entry.
Observations
Satellite imagery and GPS Integrated Water Vapor observations
NOAA/NESDIS site for HMT Satellite Support Imagery
This includes SSMI imagery.
RAMSDIS satellite display.
A nice North Pacific display of animated water vapor imagery is available here.
Integrated water vapor analysis over land based on GPS data.
Plotted surface obs
RAP Weather page.
Radar
RAP weather site for radar display. Options of use here include both reflectivity and velocity displays, also can make (and loop) a composite image on the regional or national scale.
Precipitation data
California River Forecast center data. Precipitation gage amounts of from 1 to 24-h duration available plotted on a map.
Precipitation estimates
NEW NWS precipitation site. Lots of info here on precipitation that has fallen, with a nice archive capability.
NWS National Precipitation Verification Unit site. 6-h estimates of precipitation can be found here.
Profiler
NOAA profiler site. "Unofficial" profilers can
be accessed here.
Another NOAA profiler site. With a clickable West Coast map available (at this site.)
NWS forecasts
NWS California/Nevada River Forecast Center. Observations and forecasts for our area of interest.
NWS HPC. Graphical QPF forecasts and discussions.
NWS Sacramento WFO Forecasts, discussions, and much more here.
Manual longrange forecasts.
Official forecasts. NOAA/CPC 6-10 day and 8-14 day manual forecasts.
Sites with multiple models
Precipitable water forecast from the University of Hawaii Department of Meteorology homepage.
Much imagery and model fields at this site from the banner on left side.
NCEP model homepage. Access to GFS to 384h and Eta to 84h with forecasts initialized every 6-h. Also access to 5-km WRF and NMM windows, run once per day.
NCEP/HPC experimental multi-model homepage. Access to several models, with anomalies and moisture flux forecasts.
NCAR model site - NH MM5 available to 120h. Plus many other models.
Unisys model homepage. Nice especially for a quick look, useful if you have a slow connection. Also imagery and other obs here.
RAP weather site compiled by Greg Thompson. Models and obs here.
Ensembles
Good site for ensembles. Penn State's "e-Wall" site also has lots of model displays. For ensembles go to the bottom of the page for individual plots from the GFS and Canadian ensembles (twice per day).
Or if you prefer...spaghetti plots from the
CDC website to 360h.
Another comprehensive site with lots of spaghetti plots from the
NOAA/EMC website to 384 h.
Environment Canada ensemble site. Ensembles from their models as well as the NCEP ensembles for a variety of fields through 360h. Called the "North American Ensemble Forecast System (NAEFS).
Experimental longrange forecasts.
Experimental forecasts. NOAA/CDC 6-10 day and 8-14 day experimental forecasts.
Specific model sites
LAPS HMT analyses and model homepage. LAPS analyses and 1 & 3 km model runs initialized with LAPS hotstart for the HMT available here.
RUC homepage. Note that the "dev RUC" is run out to 48h at 00 and 12z. Choose the Region "North West" to zoom in on the testbed.
ECMWF homepage. Usually the ECMWF latest run shows up here first. New: can now get individual forecasts out to 240-h.
Canadian longrange model. 00z run goes out to 144h.
NOGAPS model official homesite.
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9 January 2008
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