Weather and Meteorology General Thread

[derp_commander !!SSXdvR3LCoa No.8237335]

Ok, with hurricane season getting underway, I thought it'd be nice to provoke some serious discussion about that universal idle topic of conversation. This general thread is experimental, so either it will catch on or it won't.

I'd love to hear from all storm chasers, professional meteorologists, weather station operators, atmospheric and hydrological researchers, pilots, mariners, and general weather buffs. Pretty much anything that's going on involving air and water on our little blue marble should be relevant, but PLEASE for the love of $DEITY avoid arguments about global warming/climate change, or /x/-tier tinfoil like HAARP and "chemtrails". Let's try to keep it concrete, practical, and empirical.

===Bookmarks===
Most of these are US-centric, but some are more generally applicable. As always, feel free to share your favorite weather sites.

World Meteorological Organization: http://www.wmo.int
US National Weather Service: http://www.weather.gov/
US Joint Typhoon Warning Center: https://metoc.ndbc.noaa.gov/JTWC/
ECMWF (Europe) Charts & Forecasts: http://www.ecmwf.int/en/forecasts
JMA (Japan) Typhoon Center: http://www.jma.go.jp/en/typh/
Weather prediction education: http://www.theweatherprediction.com/
Unisys Weather: http://weather.unisys.com/index.php
AWM Model Viewer: http://aweathermoment.com/model-viewer/
AWIPS II (software used by the NWS, free): http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/awips2/
NOAA Weather and Climate Toolkit: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/wct/
Twister

[derp_commander !!SSXdvR3LCoa No.8238732]

Oh, a note:

While CAVE will only *install* on a Red Hat-based system, it appears that it will *run* on pretty much any Linux flavor, so long as it's still installed to /awips2/, without much fuss. So if you don't like RH, you can load a live CD and install it to disk that way.