Near
real-time weather images from Doppler radar stations located
throughout Oklahoma are available from the
National
Weather Service.
Additional
real-time radar images and an assortment of weather data may
also be accessed by the public through the
Oklahoma
Climatolgical Survey. The
Arkansas-Red
Basin River Forecast Center, of the
National
Weather Service, offers numerous hydrologic and rainfall forecasting
products, including
1-,
6-, and 24-hour precipitation images utilizing Nexrad radar
precipitation estimates and raingauge reports. Orbiting Geostationary
Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) images are provided
and updated at least every 15 minutes through the
National
Climatic Data Center of the
National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. NOAA's
Geostationary
Satellite Server provides numerous other GOES images while
the University of Wisconsin's
Space
Science and Engineering Center houses much of the archived
GOES data. Finally, for an excellent general representation of
weather happenings throughout the country, access
weather.gov,
part of the National Weather Service's
Interactive
Weather Information Network (IWIN).
Forecasts of precipitation and temperature, issued by the
National Weather Service,
Climate Prediction
Center, Western Regional
Climate Center and other organizations, can be valuable
drought monitoring tools. Even more important are updates
on El Niño and La Niña -- phenomena which
occur during abnormal warming and cooling, respectively, of
Pacific Ocean waters and greatly impact Oklahoma weather --
which are available from the NASA
Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Climate
Prediction Center (of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration's National
Centers for Environmental Prediction).
NOAA's Storm
Prediction Center offers a suite of short-term forecast
products, including mesoscale discussions, convective
outlooks and current national weather watches, warnings and
advisories. Also, check out the SPC's experimental
forecast products, which forecast tornado, hail and wind
probabilities.
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