One of the great features of the Internet and the electronic age is the ability to obtain up to date weather reports and current images of storm fronts. Almost everyone is interested in the weather. We'll keep you up to date on some of the best weather related sites on this page. Updated 2/20/08 to fix broken links, and increase usability.

• The Weather Underground provides the best local forecast. This page provides information for the area surrounding Dubuque Iowa.
• The University of Kentucky provides County level info for Jo Daviess County.
• National Weather Service severe storm and significant weather forecasts
• Use this link for recent weather statistics in Dubuque Iowa.
• This link will provide the weather summary for the previous month

Use this link for weekly weather and crop bulletins from USDA

The Purdue Weather processor is now operated by Unisys. The images are similar or improved from the past and are updated once an hour at about 30 after the hour... Images for the previous hours are now easily available.

• Our favorite is the enhanced infrared satellite image of the midwest.
• Click here for a visable satellite image that downsloads quickly. (Daytime only -goes dark at night)
• Use this link for an enhanced satelite image of the entire country
•  Use this link for the surface temperature contour map.

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  Radar
• If you would like to see enhanced radar images try Midwest area weather from Intellicast.

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  Use this link for help in interpreting the numbers and symbols on the Intellicast radar report
• Unisys also provides a good radar image of the entire country.

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   Real Time & Remote Sensing

The University of Wisconsin Space Science and Engineering Center is your archive and source for some of the best remote sensing images on the web. Don't miss their imagery of glaciers.

• For the best visible satellite image this is the link you need. It shows the Wisconsin, NW Illinois and the NE Iowa region and is updated every 15 minutes from the University of Wisconsin. During the day it's a visable image and at night it is changed to infrared.
• For more truly awesome satellite views of the North American Continent and cloud patterns of the world check this link to the University of Wisconsin satellite Goes 8 Satellite imagery page.

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    Other weather sources

• If you are wondering about the approach of a cold front the surface temperature contours map with temperatures stations shown is helpful. A link to the Ohio State Page is located below in the serious weather watchers section.  

• The National Center for Atmospheric Research National Radar Map is another radar alternative.

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  Other satellite images:

• Midwest visable satelite from the National Center for Atmospheric Research
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• An enhanced image of the Eastern US and Canada from Ohio State
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• The NOAA image server provides a broad range of maps and Illinois State information 

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  Weather Related Graphics
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• For river rats we have added a link to the current an estimated river stages at the Mississippi River Lock and Dams.
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• We even found a link to the Galena River gage station at Galena and the Apple River gage station at Hanover The Geological survey offers lots of other info about the Apple
• They also monitor the Sinsinawa River near Menominee. This link is for the Sinsinawa River gage station graph
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• The Pecatonica is an active river- You can monitor it's stage at Martintown, Wisconsin which is just across the Illinois state line North of Winslow in Stephenson County.

For serious weather watchers--

Don't miss these links:

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• For more truly awesome satellite views of the North American Continent and cloud patterns of the world check this link to the University of Wisconsin satellite Goes 8 Satellite imagery page. (This link has been updated to go directly to the thumbnail images for the United States. Note that at night you must select infrared or water vapor images or the screen will be dark.)
• The University of Wisconsin Space Science and Engineering Center is your archive and source for some of the best remote sensing images on the web.
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• The Purdue University weather processor page has continued to improve and offers some important satellite and radar images. The weather processor home page is at http://wxp.atms.purdue.edu/ Purdue uses some of the Goes 8 imagery from Wisconsin and provides enhancements.
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• To go right to the Goes 8 visable satellite image of the midwest click here
• We especially like the enhanced infrared satellite image of the midwest from Purdue because it provides estimates of rainfall intensity.
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• The Ohio State University Atmospheric Sciences weather images page is a good source for upper level weather data, wind velocity and deserves a look for serious weather watchers
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• http://mcc.sws.uiuc.edu/ Midwest Climate Center. The Midwestern Climate Center is a cooperative program of the U.S. National Weather Service and the Illinois State Water Survey in Champaign, IL.
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• The University of Kentucky extends their forecasts and info well beyond the Bluegrass State. 

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  Other links of interest
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• The National Weather Service home page in the Illinois -Iowa Quad cities
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•  Everything you ever wanted to know abou El-Nino http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/toga-tao/el-nino/faq.html
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• http://www.fourmilab.ch/earthview/vplanet.html Pretty heavy duty stuff --Earth viewer software.
  
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• For additional weather forecasts and radar image services take a look at: The CNN weather page or the more extensive options from Earthwatch -weather on demand.

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•   How about some pictures of clouds and tornadoes? http://www.crh.noaa.gov/dvn/wxart/index.htm
• For an example image of severe weather clouds see this image of tornado weather that moved through the midwest on the evening of May 15th 1998. 

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