WILD WEATHER WEBSITE LINKS!

 

 

The Dust Bowl (1930s)

 

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/dustbowl/ - PBS’s American Experience – Surviving the Dust Bowl site features facts, photos, eyewitness accounts, and a timeline of this American disaster.

 

http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/depression/dustbowl.htm - Contains a timeline and maps.

 

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/afctshtml/tshome.html - Library of Congress American Memory Collection – eyewitness accounts and photographs.

 

 

Storm of the Century (1950)

 

http://www.weather.com/newscenter/specialreports/sotc/storm8/page1.html - A Weather Channel Special Report listing facts about the storm.

 

 

Cold Wave (Feb. 1899)

 

http://www.publicaffairs.noaa.gov/releases99/feb99/noaa99r210.html - Article discussing facts about this extreme cold wave.

 

http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/extremes/1999/february/extremes0299.html#maps - Provides maps illustrating temperatures throughout the country.

 

 

Galveston Hurricane (Sept. 1900)

 

http://www.1900storm.com/  - Contains articles, photos, and facts.

 

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2000/galveston/ - CNN site commemorating the 100th anniversary of this disaster with maps, photos, and articles on the storm.

 

http://www.history.noaa.gov/stories_tales/cline2.html - Special report from the NOAA.

 

 

El Nino Episodes

 

http://www.atmos.washington.edu/gcg/RTN/rtnt.html - Discusses what the El Nino phenomena is all about.

 

http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/eln/rcnt.rxml - Concentrates specifically on the 1997-98 El Nino.

 

 

Yangtze River Flood

 

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,752984,00.html?promoid=googlep - Actual news article posted in August 1931.

 

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,929775,00.html?promoid=googlep - Another news article about the flood from 1931.

 

 

Drought/Heat Wave (1988)

 

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,967822-1,00.html - Time Magazine news article from July 1988.

 

 

Great Tsunami of 2004

 

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/12/1227_041226_tsunami.html

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/world/2004/asia_quake_disaster/default.stm

 

http://newton.uor.edu/departments&programs/AsianStudiesdept/tsunami.html

 

 

Effect of Wind Farms on Weather

 

http://www.sciencedaily.com/videos/2005/1012-wind_farms_impacting_weather.htm

 

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/12/071215212425.htm

 

http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20041016/fob7.asp

 

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn6608.html

 

 

Acid Rain in the Adirondacks

 

http://classes.colgate.edu/aleventer/geol101/acidadir/acid14.htm

 

http://archives.cnn.com/2000/NATURE/04/19/acid.rain.adirondacks/

 

http://www.sciencemaster.com/jump/earth/acid_rain.php

 

 

 

Eruption of Mt. Pinatubo (1991)

 

http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Volcanoes/Philippines/Pinatubo/framework.html

 

http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/environment/volcano_climate.html

 

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/03/030313081900.htm

 

 

 

Air Pollution Event – Denora, PA (1948)

 

http://www.epa.gov/airnow/2004conference/monday/devlin2.pdf

 

 

 

Heat Wave of Chicago (July 1995)

 

http://www.sws.uiuc.edu/atmos/statecli/General/1995Chicago.htm

 

http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/2433.html

 

http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/443213in.html

 

 

 

Great Smog of London (1952)

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2545759.stm - BBC News article.

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2546563.stm - Photos of the smog.

 

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=health&res=9804E0DB1031F931A2575BC0A9659C8B63 - Smog-related detriments to health.

 

 

Tri-State Tornado (1925)

 

http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories/s393.htm - Lists facts on the storm.

 

http://www.semp.us/biots/biot_191.html - Includes facts, background, and a map of the tornado’s path.

 

 

Midwest Flooding (1993)

 

http://ols.nndc.noaa.gov/plolstore/plsql/olstore.prodspecific?prodnum=C00487-PUB-A0001 - Provides facts and background on this event.

 

 

Super Tornado Outbreak (1974)

 

http://www.publicaffairs.noaa.gov/storms/b - Provides a description of the event, and satellite images and statistics.

 

http://www.april31974.com/ - Maps and photos.

 

 

Hurricane Katrina (2005)

 

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2005/katrina/ - CNN news coverage with glossary, map, photo galleries and background material.

 

 

Wreck of Edmund Fitzgerald (Nov. 1975)

 

http://www.ssefo.com/info/storm.html - History of the storm and the ship and crew.

 

http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/wxwise/fitz.html - Tracks the path of the storm that caused the ship to sink.

 

 

Blizzard of 1977 – Northeast

 

http://www.wbuf.noaa.gov/bzpns.htm - Synopsis of the blizzard