Paul Sirvatka's ES 1116-17, 2116-17 Notes (Forecasting Class)

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Syllabus-1117
Syllabus-2116
Syllabus-2117

Assignments

Forecasting Labs

Notes

University of Illinois, WW2010: The Online Guides of Meteorology
MetEd resources Meteorology Education and Training modules, courses, and cases
Warning, Watch and Advisory Criteria Guide on warnings, watches, advisories, for storms, winter weather, fog, and other weather phenomena
METAR HTML guide on how to decode METAR observations
FOUS/MOS. HTML guide on how to decode MOS text data.
FOUS/OUTPUT. HTML guide on how to decode numerical output data.
Station Models Guide
Forecasting Snowfall Presentation
Severe Page Help withe Severe Text
SPC Acronyms Page (Link to SPC's web page of acronyms)
Illinois County Warning Area Map Also shows ASOS, RADAR, and WSFO locations in Illinois.
WSFO Map Showing the location of all the NWS forecast offices in the US
Great Images of past events from SPC (latest image on top, scroll down to bottom for past images)
Splitflow Jet Example A 500mb chart with a deep, southwestern, low, in the subtropical jet stream.
Good case of a shortwave trough using vorticity maps

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