National Weather Service

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This page provides weather content from the National Weather Service including radar locations, forecast and weather records that farmers will find useful.

Great Lakes Radar from NWS

http://radar.weather.gov/Conus/centgrtlakes.php

30 Day Outlook Summary Data for Ohio Valley Precipitation, Temperature and Flood potential

Discussion of 30 day outlook: http://www.erh.noaa.gov/ohrfc/HAS/text/wro.txt

Graphical with 30, 60 and 90 day flood outlooks: http://www.erh.noaa.gov/ohrfc/WRO.shtml

Precipitation

Precipitation Data- Provides a graphical representation of precipitation daily or period. Click on Ohio in the US map and use selections on the page to look at current data and archived data by day and month. Maps for a period week (7days or more) show observed, normal, departure from normal and percent of normal precipitation.

http://water.weather.gov/precip/

Temperature

Monthly temperature with departure from normal.

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/cag3/regional.html

Soil Moisture and Drought Conditions

Short term drought indicator percentiles- Updated weekly shows this map approximates impacts that respond to precipitation over several days to a few months such as agriculture, topsoil moisture, unregulated stream flows and wildfire danger.

http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/predictions/tools/edb/sbfinal.gif

Long term drought indicator percentiles- Updated weekly this map approximates impacts responding to precipitation over the course of several months to a few years.

http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/predictions/tools/edb/lbfinal.gif

US Drought Monitor or the ‘Palmer Drought Index’ focuses on broad scale moisture conditions and impacts to agriculture and soil water conditions. Website provides a variety of forecast maps for drought outlook, climate outlook (temperature & precipitation) and soil moisture.

http://www.drought.unl.edu/dm/monitor.html

Crop Moisture Index weekly value of short term water need versus available water in a shallow soil profile.

http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/regional_monitoring/cmi.gif