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Leonard Grossman

• Gary-Chicago-Milwaukee Corridor Home Page Maps and tables showing current travel times and construction on area highways and expressways and much more.
• Current conditions at O'Hare from the National Weather Service. Loads Fast.
  
• Weather Underground - Chicago Current Conditions and forecast in Metric or English from the Weather Underground. Has easy search form for other locations. . (Same site as icon at the top of the page.)
  
• Illinois Department of Transportation Road Conditions, Construction Information, Amtrak Information, Rest Area System, Road Restriction and Vertical Clearance Lists, Chicago Expressway Congestion Map and more.
  
• http://weather.yahoo.com/forecast/Chicago_IL_US_f.html Five day forecast and the current conditions. From Yahoo.
  
• http://www.usatoday.com/weather/basemaps/nw725300.htm Five day forecast from USA Today.
  
• http://www.cnn.com/WEATHER/html/ChicagoIL.html Five day forecast and current conditions from CNN.
  
• telnet://rainmaker.wunderground.com Telnet weather. Fast and thorough, if you have telnet access. (To get Chicago weather type "ORD" in the field, when asked for 3 letter city code. Trivia question: Why ORD?)
  
• www.weatherpages.com/chicago This a very complex and complete site with tons of information and images. But you need a fast connection and a large monitor to get the most out of the busy frames environment. (Improvements promised.)
  
• http://www.intellicast.com/weather/ord/
  
• http://www.chicago.tribune.com/news/weather/weather.htm
  
• http://chi.yahoo.com/News/Weather/
  
• http://weather.yahoo.com/
  
• http://www.weather.com
  
• http://iwin.nws.noaa.gov/iwin/il/local.html
  
• http://iwin.nws.noaa.gov/iwin/textversion/state/il.html"
  
• http://www.kgan.com/wx/wxradar.html (Iowa Site includes radar images of all of Illinois and of the United States, updated frequently.)
  
• http://www.kgan.com/wx/radar/regional_ani.html Full screen animated radar image covers all midwest states. Frequent updates.
  
• Tom Skillings WGN TV Weather After the main WGN page loads, click on "Weather" on the menu bar on the top left hand corner of your screen.
  
• Special: Winter Road Conditions From IDOT. Also a available in a detailed text format. (IDOT reports winter road conditions from November 15 - March 15.)

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National Weather Service Sites

• NEW Enhanced Graphics version (Multiple live image screen - auto updating)
  
• Graphics version (Inline graphics, tables etc...)
  
• Text version (best for low speed links or non-enhanced viewers)
  
• Midwest Zone Forecasts (Illinois, Missouri) Text -Fast
  
• Interactive Weather Information Network Text front page for above services.
• National Climactic Data Center NCDC is the world's largest archive of weather data. NCDC archives weather data obtained by the National Weather Service, Military Services, Federal Aviation Administration, and the Coast Guard, as well as data from voluntary cooperative observers.
• NCDC Regional Climate Centers This site has weather information for the past 50 years or so for many reporting stations, making it possible to look up things like the average date of first and last frost, the first snowfall date, average snow per month, record snows, average temperatures. Thanks for the tip to Mike's Weblog
• Midwestern Climate Center This is one of the regional centers. Covers Illinois and the surrounding states.
• Illinois State Climatologist Detailed climate data for Illinois. A description of the kinds of data is available.
• Get/View NCDC climate data Surface Data, Modeled Upper Air Data and Marine Data.

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Additional Sites:

• http://kjrh.com/weather/selected/chicago.html
  
• http://www.eas.slu.edu/Weather/images/currwx_ord.html
  
• http://www.vldbros.com/weather/chicago.html In Russian. You will need CYRILLIC FONTS to properly display this page.
  
• http://weather.yahoo.com/graphics/outlook/Chicago48.html
  
• http://taiga.geog.niu.edu/nwslot/fzus62.KCHI.html (Marine Forecast)
  
• http://www.math.uchicago.edu/~kostia/chi_weather.html
  
• http://204.202.137.113/local/wls/weather_today.html Channel 7 Weather
  
• http://www.cyberair.com/audio/chiapp/wea.html
• You can get an early morning e-mail with the day's forecast by sending a note to Dan and JoanneTucker at: danjo@xnet.com. Say please. If you are a newsgroup junkie the same report is available daily at chi.weather.

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Weather statistics, records and other weather information

• Chicago Historical Weather Records Highest temperature, lowest, snowfall, etc. Links to more Chicago information.
• WorldClimate.com contains over 85,000 records of world climate data (historical weather averages) from a wide range of sources.
  
• The Old Farmers Almanac
  
• National Weather Service
  
• WeatherBank A commercial, subscription only, source of weather information/
  
• AccuWeather Lobby Info on AccuWeather services (commercial).
  
• AccuData?, AccuWeather's On-Line weather database, has weather information for your city and the entire world. Another commercial source of information.
  
• Agricultural Weather Information
  
• Weather Databases
  
• Marine Weather databases.
  
• Aviation Weather databases
  
• NorthEast Media of Atmospheric Science, NEMAS, has a new weather education site with fascinating information including:
  • A description of Atmospheric Soundings,
  • Extensive information on thunderstorms,
  • and an Ask NEMAS section which permits users to submit questions about weather and obtain responses from professional forecasters.

Leonard Grossman and Cindy Barnard were married on January 6, 2008

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grossman@mcs.net

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