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Santa Cruz and California Meteorology and Climate

This page has links to sites that contain current, recent and historical meteorological and climate information. Many sites contain information covering all of the above time scales.

Meteorology

San Francisco - Monterey NWS

SFSU Meteorology Department

Current Northern and Central CA weather observations

Daily maxs and mins selected stations

NOAA Weather Radio San Francisco / MontereyNOAA Weather Radio San Francisco / Monterey

alternative source ..NOAA Weather Radio San Francisco / Monterey

general link NOAA Weather Radio

Weather report Watsonville Airport, the closest professional station

Watsonville Airport last two days data

Weather Underground site for 'Yacht Harbor', Santa Cruz with data

Weather Underground site for 'Long Marine lab area', Santa Cruz with data

Weather Underground site for 'Natural Bridges area', Santa Cruz with data

Weather Underground site for 'Quail Crossing area in the city close to main UCSC entrance', Santa Cruz with data

Weather Underground site for 'Bonny Doon Airport', good for Marshall's Field top of UCSC campus with data

Weather Underground site for 'Sand Dollar Road', coatal not far form Watsonville - good for Sunset Beach

NWS widget for Santa Cruz

Santa Cruz weather conditions - basics plus simple forecast

Santa Cruz - forecast yr.no / Monterey NWS

rain n' radar

Current Radar List

Rain Radar

Current/Accumulated Rain - need to drive by option buttons.

Various precipitation maps

Precipitation totals (stations)

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Rain, water, reservoirs at Maven's notebook

Current Rainfall Reports, Santa Cruz

satellite images s

Current US satellite weather list

Current 3km resolution Central West US Visible - shows Monterey Bay but it might be dark!

Current 3km as above for infra-red

Current 3km as above but for water vapour

all at sea

Current Buoy Reports List

for Monterey Bay


Climatology

Western US Climate Historical Summaries

Climate Links

US Climate data and information

California Climate Data from DRI

NCEI Climate Stats

CA Atmospheric Resources Board - air pollution and greenhouse gases


Drought

Drought page Santa Cruz Government

Regional Monthly Climate Summary - reports not updated since 2015.

The State Climatologist's Office

Long term NorCal monthly climate averages

and for Santa Cruz

Drought animation Oct 14 ...

... updated stills - well worth a look!

Worst drought in 1200 years - tree rings

Impacts of drought in CA

CA government drought information site


Climate Change

PNAS paper 2004 on climate change and CA

Weather forecast for 2050 in a future climate

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