Favorite weather websites - Hurricane Season

Looking up, just now. May 14, 2020, 11:26 AM

This is a good time to share a few weather links. All of the links in this post are also listed on the right side of this website. 

Dark Sky 

Tropical Tidbits - this is the place I go to stay abreast of tropical storms and hurricanes. Levi Cowan's knowledge is respected and shared broadly. His focus is on Atlantic hurricanes; he's located in Tallahassee, FL. He posts voice updates about active tropical disturbances.

National Hurricane Center

National Weather Service

Weather Spark - charts about averages such as rainfall (for anywhere in the world). Here is a rainfall chart for Bradenton.

Weather Underground

Learn Your Level - For Hurricanes, Wildewood Springs' evacuation level is D (green). The instruction is to listen to our local authorities for evacuation notices. 

Hurricane Preparedness Manual - Manatee County (cover of the manual)

Hurricane Matthew was kind to Wildewood Springs

Screen grab, Tropical Tidbits. Thursday, October 6, 2016

Hurricane Matthew was kind to Bradenton. However, our neighbors in Haiti, Cuba, and the Bahamas are seriously affected. Florida's east coast reports downed trees and power lines, debris, flooding, and building damage. 

Matthew is now in the cove-shaped coastal area of Georgia and South Carolina. Though Bradenton was under a Tropical Storm Watch Thursday as Matthew moved up the coast, our weather was mild.

Wildewood Springs had very little rain. It was breezy, we had a few gusts.

Thursday evening, Pineneedle Drive

Friday rain shower

Friday evening, pond area

When storms approach, I get my information from:

National Hurricane Center

WU Weather Underground Bradenton 

Tropical Tidbits

Mote Marine Lab has been operating its own weather news station since 1980. It's a good place to learn about local weather.