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Readers' photos
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Data from the The Sun's weather station
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2011 stargazers' calendar
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Become a backyard astronomer in five simple steps
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Baltimore Weather Archive
Daily airport weather data for Baltimore from 1948 to today
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National Weather Service:
Sterling Forecast Office
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Capital Weather Gang:
Washington Post weather blog
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CoCoRaHS:
Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network. Local observations by volunteers
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Weather Bug:
Webcams across the state
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National Data Buoy Center:
Weather and ocean data from bay and ocean buoys
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U.S. Drought Monitor:
Weekly maps of drought conditions in the U.S.
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USGS Earthquake Hazards Program:
Real-time data on earthquakes
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Water data:
From the USGS, Maryland
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National Hurricane Center
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Air Now:
Government site for air quality information
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NWS Climate Prediction Center:
Long-term and seasonal forecasts
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U.S. Climate at a Glance:
NOAA interactive site for past climate data, national, state and city
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Clear Sky Clock:
Clear sky alerts for stargazers
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NASA TV:
Watch NASA TV
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Hubblesite:
Home page for Hubble Space Telescope
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Heavens Above:
Everything for the backyard stargazer, tailored to your location
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NASA Eclipse Home Page:
Centuries of eclipse predictions
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Cruise Critic: Hurricane Zone:
Check to see how hurricanes may affect your cruise schedule
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Warming World:
NASA explains the science of climate change with articles, videos, “data visualizations,” and space-based imagery.
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What on Earth:
NASA blog on current research at the space agency.
Comments
It has been an amazingly quiet year for severe tropical storms and hurricanes. Perhaps the dire predictions for increasingly severe storm systems was a made a bit too prematurely. This is one reason why you need to gather substantial data over a long period of time to make such predictions, and even then you can be wrong. This is an important lesson for kids working on weather science fair projects to learn.
FR: Not really. June and July are normally fairly quiet. This season is only "quiet" compared with some unusually busy recent years. And the data are already in, showing a multi-decadal period of increased Atlantic storm activity began in 1995. And there's no need to invoke global warming to explain it. It's a well-documented Atlantic cycle.
Posted by: Weather Science Fair Projects | August 12, 2009 2:17 PM