earth science links

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weather local/southwest/national/international

• local forecast for SE Escondido

• NOAA MesoNet Observations

• CWOPs Chateau Esceaux

• San Diego current weather story

• San Diego 92129 Air Quality

• NWS San Diego

• San Diego forecast discussion

• Los Angeles forecast discussion

• Sacramento Weather

• Sacramento forecast discussion

• Seattle Weather

• Seattle forecast discussion

• southern California visible satellite

• southern California water vapor image

• Southwest USA Radar

• Southern CA Radar

• Southwest Infrared Image

• Real-time CA Lightning Map

• Accuweather San Diego Forecast

• USA radar map (intellicast)

• USA Temperature Map and Real-Time viewer

• western USA watches/warnings

• Eastern Pacific Analysis Map

• southern CA rainfall google map

• wunderground weather station map

• windy

• nullschoolearth

• long-range national outlook (climate prediction center)

• NWS Weather and Hazards data viewer map

• Central Pacific (Hawaii) Hurricane Center

• National Hurricane Center

• International Hurricane Center Directory

• International Weather Observations

wildfire

• CalFire Incidents

• WildfireIncidents.com

• NASA FIRMS world fire data and maps

• NIFC Incident and Operations maps(select fire and kmz file for Google Fire Perimeter Map)

• Google CrisisMaps Wildfire Perimeters

• California Fire Cams (UCSD) Mosaic

• SDGE Fire Cams Mosaic (live camera feeds from local mountain tops)

• HPWREN Mosaic Cams

• San Diego Area Fire Cams (HPWREN)

• Orange County Fire Cams

• Los Angeles Country Fire Cams

• Ventura County Fire Cams

• Santa Barbara County Fire Cams

• Sierra Nevada Fire Cams

• San Francisco Examiner Fire Maps

• SDG&E Power Outage Map (San Diego)

• Dave Toussaint (retired firefighter twitter)

• CA Fire Scanner (unofficial, twitter feed)

• San Diego Co Fire Scanner audio feeds

• San Diego and Poway Fire Scanner feed

• Nevada County (Truckee) Fire Scanner feed

• FlightRadar24 (shows live airplane flight paths)

astronomical information

• San Diego Sunrise/Sunset

• Cosmic Events Calendar

• San Diego Tide Chart

• Live Earth Viewing from the ISS

earthquakes/volcanoes

• USGS latest earthquakes

• USGS general earthquake resources

• Southern California Earthquake Center recent earthquakes

• NOAA pacific tsunami warning center

• NOAA recent and historic tsunami info

• USA Volcano Hazard Program

• Hawaii Volcano Observatory

• Cascades Volcano Observatory

• Dr. Janine Krippner (volcano tweets)

• Erik Klemetti (volcano tweets)

• Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program

• Interactive World Volcanism Map

local and state traffic

• caltrans CA traffic and road info

• san diego freeway speeds

• los angeles/orange county freeway map

• waze livemap (type in zipcode)

weather/climate blogs

• Eye of the Storm blog: Dr. Jeff Masters

• WeatherWest Blog

• NOAA El Nino Blog

• NASA Climate Blog

• desmog blog

• Accuweather Blogs

• Open Mind blog: Good discussion of Trend vs Fluctuations in data