r/ScienceTeachers • u/EgoDefenseMechanism • 11d ago
Weather maps with data layers you can toggle on and off?
Like title says, I'm looking for weather maps where you can toggle data layers on and off. This is because I'd like to create a jigsaw information gap activity where students study one data set at a time and later combine to answer a complex question. Ideally, this would be something I could print. The data layers I'm looking for are:
- stations
- fronts
- precipitation
- temperature
- wind
- pressure
Thanks!
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u/RoyalWulff81 11d ago
I’m not at a desktop to toggle through, but does weather underground proved that info? It’s where my schools weather station uploads to
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u/Several-Honey-8810 11d ago
Their maps stink and are slow. I quit sending there years ago.
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u/RoyalWulff81 11d ago
Fair enough. I don’t use the website, I use the weather station app that pulls from our school and others on the same network - AWNet
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u/SaiphSDC 11d ago
Earth.nullschool.net
Doesn't have the stations. But I found it helped students learn to actually look at the map when I said go look at the storm system over Florida on ___ date.
Doesn't explicitly label the fronts, but you can see them where the air comes from two directions and make a dark "ribbon" that is the front.
High and low pressure can be inferred from the swirls in the wind, or by turning on the layer that color codes it.
Also does altitude variations.
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u/Isodrosotherms 11d ago
Meteorologist here: if you’re looking for one variable at a time, the Plymouth State Weather Archive might be the best bet. Play around with both the plotted data and contoured data and see if that fits your needs.
https://vortex.plymouth.edu/myowxp/sfc/