This map displays active watch, warnings, advisories and short term forecasts in the lower 48 US states.
http://www.weather.gov/view/largemap.php

This site features introductions to meteorology for children and older students, with diagrams, animation, games, puzzles, tests and lists of useful books and articles.
http://library.thinkquest.org/C0112425/main.htm

Making a weather station from the Miami Museum of Science, this website helps you learn about weather.
http://www.miamisci.org/hurricane/weatherstation.html

Real-time images of cities from around the world. Let's you see what the weather is like at the moment you click the city.
http://www.fourmilab.ch/earthview/cities.html

The U.S. National Weather Service brings this interactive site to show you the weather and warnings anywhere in the U.S. at any given time. Updated every 5 minutes.
http://iwin.nws.noaa.gov/iwin/graphicsversion/bigmain.html

USA Today brings you this conversion chart for Fahrenheit and Celsius, lets you choose from the weather index, and brings you weather and climate history.
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/wtempcf.htm
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/index/windex.htm
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/whistory.htm

From the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Illinois come these resources which incorporate text, colorful diagrams, animations, computer simulations, audio and video to introduce fundamental concepts in the atmospheric sciences. Also learn how to read weather maps and remote sensing.
http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/home.rxml
http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/maps/home.rxml
http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/rs/home.rxml

The Weather Channel online.
http://www.weather.com/

Chasing El Niño and finding out what scientists are learning about this mysterious weather phenomenon with its reach through space and time. From PBS online; Nova.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elnino/

September 2008