Thought I'd start up a thread where people can post their weather links that they've got tucked away in their 'favourites' tab. Hopefully this will turn into a good resource for the more interesting times of the year!!

Feel free to add some!!

Storm Chasing Websites

Severe Weather Chasers
Brisbane Storm Chasers
Townsville Storms

Weather education sites:

Tropical System Forecasting Basics
Extreme Instability (mostly photos)

Cyclone/Hurricane sites:

Tropical Cyclone Names (BOM)
UK Met Office Cyclone guidance for the South Pacific and SE Indian oceans
UKMET Plot Map
Joint Typhoon Warning Centre (JTWC)
US Navy/NRL Tropical Cyclone Page
Australian Severe Weather - Tropical Cyclones
Tropical Storm Risk (TSR) website
Real time Tropical Cyclone information (NOAA)
National Hurricane Centre homepage (NOAA)
Fiji Meteorological Service
Current Tropical Cyclone Information (Australia)
Stormpulse - Current Atlantic Activity
Badan Meteorologi & Geofisika (Indonesian BOM)
Cyclone Formation Probability (next 3 week forecast)
Tropical Storms, Worlwide
Listing of all Tropical Cyclones from Australian Bureau of Meteorolgy data
Statistical prediction of weekly tropical cyclone activity in the Southern Hemisphere

Rainfall outlook sites:

COLA/IGES Precipitation Forecast
GFS Accumulated Precipitation Forecast
Operational Concensus Forecasts (OCF)
Australian Weather News (AWN) \'WeatherWall\' - Rainfall

Synoptic & Shear Sites:

European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF)
Australian Weather News Synoptic Charts
24hr Shear Tendency - East Australia Region

Satellite sites:

Asian and Australian Satellite Imagery
Global Mosaic Satellite Images
MTSAT Colorized IR Loop (Eastern Aust and Pacific to 160W)
Tropmet.com tropical satellite page

MJO:

MJO Forecast
All-season Real-time Multivariate MJO Index
BOM MJO Homepage
NOAA ESRL MJO forecasts

ENSO related:

BLUElink Ocean Forecast (SST\'s, Australia)
Multiple ENSO animations (Climate Prediction Centre)
Real Time POES Imagery Atlantic/East Pacific SST Loop (Climate Prediction Centre)
Global SST anomalies (updated daily, UNISYS)
Current Operational SST Anomaly Charts (updated every 4 days, NOAA)

Local Radar Sites:

Radar & Satellite System by Strikeone
The Weather Chaser radar loops

Streaming web cams

Townsville Sky Cam

International Radar Sites:

Real Time Weather Data - Radar page (NCAR, United States)

Online Radio Stations:

4TO FM (Townsville)
HOTFM (Townsville)

Charts -
Aust. & International Charts

More Tropical Cyclones
Atlantic Hurricane Warnings
Fiji Warning Centre, central Pacific Cyclones

General Sites
Stormchasers - latest aust. chart and sat info, rainfall/storm discussion.
CIMSS - Tropical Cyclone images, upper level analysis etc from around the world.

Now there's a good idea.

http://www.australianweathernews.com/forecast_OCF.htm

http://www.tropmet.com/alert_1_satellite.htm

http://www.atmosphere.mpg.de/enid/77d9810278d8243047762d9afac0ae3b,55a304092d09/192.html Consider it done RD.

http://users.qld.chariot.net.au/~carls/current.htm

This is a good site to see the progression of SST's over northern Australia and a forecast of temps over several days.
http://www.bom.gov.au/oceanography/forecasts/idyoc13.shtml?region=13&forecast=1#

Here are some other links that I have come across.

This is a site that contains numerous charts and predictions for the MJO:
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/precip/CWlink/MJO/mjo.shtml#discussion
Benefits and hazards:
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/precip/CWlink/ghazards/ghaz.shtml

This is a update from the Darwin RSMC (BOM) for the El Nino-Southern Oscillation and Intra-Seasonal Patterns such as their expected onset of the monsoon:
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/tropnote/tropnote.shtml

my fave sight is within the JTWC site. the Modis Rapid Response System is awesome! full colour down to 250 metres. it has most places on the planet.

I like to use this for finding a LLCC in the formative stage of TC development. It has other uses too.

http://manati.orbit.nesdis.noaa.gov/quikscat/

These maps display the ocean surface winds at a 10m height from satellite passes as processed by NOAA/NESDIS, from near real-time data collected by NASA/JPL's SeaWinds Scatterometer aboard the QuikSCAT satelite.

Wind speed and Queensland building codes

There have been a few questions about what rating means what so i did a bit of homework and came up with the following information:
Qld timber framing wind speeds
C = Cyclone area. On or above the tropic of Capricorn
N = Non Cyclone area. Below the Tropic of Capricorn

C1 50 meters per sec = 150KPH
C2 61 metres per sec = 219 KPH
C3 74 metres per sec = 266KPH

N1 34 meters per sec = 122KPH
N2 40 meters per sec = 144KPH
N3 50 meters per sec = 150KPH
N4 61 meters per sec = 219KPH

Here is a good one - GFS 180 hr forecast of Global Precipitable Column Water:

http://www.coaps.fsu.edu/~maue/extreme/gfs/current/plan_water.html

Jack up the speed control to get a really neat flowing animation!

This is a great site to track the progression of the MJO using the Multivariate MJO Index. This includes phase diagrams, time-longitude plots etc.

http://www.bom.gov.au/bmrc/clfor/cfstaff/matw/maproom/RMM/index.htm

A lot of people probably already know about this site but for those who don't this is great.

Thanks Mick10.

MJO forecast: http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/people/wd52qz/mjoindex/index/diagram_40days_forecast.gif

(Also added to my original post in this thread).

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Some good links there people. Have added some to my ever exhaustive list ! Will pop some of mine in as well - this one i use for the US severe weather events http://www.rap.ucar.edu/weather/upper/

for the MJO http://www.apsru.gov.au/mjo/index.asp

Mike

A site that provides a few more options for the standard BOM radar images. I like the ability to "save" the image set.

http://www.radar.strikeone.net.au/

Added to the original post.
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Hey guys,

Another member here introduced me to this site, which has a beautiful selection of satellite imagery in and around Australia:

http://realtime2.bsch.au.com/vis_sat.html

But something weird happened, and it stopped updating on 09 January. Can anyone recommend another site like this, that has so many high-res, close-up, regional shots of the tropical waters around Australia? I'd be deeply obliged.

Thanks!

Just found this one by accident

http://home.att.net/~thehessians/disasterwatch.html