Library:
Yankee SKYWARN® Library
Primary SKYWARN® Manuals:
Basic Spotters' Field Guide here.
Advanced Spotters' Field Guide here.
2009 WX1GYX Operations Manual here.
NWS-Glossary Weather Glossary v2009
here
New England Climate
Maine State Climatologist here.
New Hampshire Climatologist here.
Northeast Regional Climate Center (NRCC) here.
Cold Weather Information
Winter Storms, the Deceptive Killers NOAA brochure hereWarm Weather Information
Weather Spotting and Ham Radio
Corey, Michael W5MPC and Victor Morris AH6WX. Storm Spotting and Amatuer Radio. Newington, CT. The American Radio Relay League, Inc. 2010Working Papers:
2008 SKYWARN® Report Logsheet logsheet2008.pdfN1KTA version SKYWARN® Report Logsheet Legal Sized logsheet-wx1gyx-legalsized.pdf
Version 2 SKYWARN® Report Logsheet Legal Sized logsheet-wx1gyx-legalsizedv2.pdf
Weather Station Guideline Manuals:
Automated Surface Observing System User Guide here
NWS ASOS Web Site here.
Citizen Weather Observer Program (CWOP) Guide here
Citizen Weather Observer website here.
FEDERAL METEOROLOGICAL HANDBOOK No. 1- Surface Weather Observations and Reports FMH1.pdf
Hail Pad from CoCoRaHS Hail Pad Analysis Center Colorado State University here
Snow Measurement Guidelines NOTE: from Northern Indiana NWS here
"Measuring Snow" is a 23 minute instructional video which was prepared by Colorado State University to teach National Weather Service Cooperative Observers. Download here.
Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network (CoCoRaHS)
CoCoRaHS Web site here.
Training information here. Useful information on snow measurement.
Books about New England Weather:
Zielinski, Gregory A. and Barry D. Keim. New England Weather, New England Climate. Hanover and London: University Press of New England, 2003.
Zielinski, Gregory A. Conditions May Vary a Guide to Maine Weather. Camden, ME: Downeast Books, 2009.
Yankee Weather Proverbs, Edited by Peter Miller, Illustrated by Daryl V. Storrs. Cobyville, VT: Silver Print Press, 2004.
Engstrom, Martin. Marty on the Mountain, 38 Years on Mount Washington. Fryeburg, ME: Self Published, 2003. The story of a TV transmitter engineer shanghaied into becoming a TV weatherman.
Ludlum, David McWilliams. The Country Journal New England Weather Book, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1976
Great New England Storms of the 20th Century, Editors of the Boston Globe, Boston: The Boston Globe, 2007.
Inexpensive used editions of the above books may be available from the national online book sellers: Abe Books, Amazon, or Barnes and Noble and others.
Other information:
The Coastal Front Newsletter A quarterly newsletter produced by Gray NWS staffers of interest to weather spotters. It can be downloaded in PDF format from the NWS GYX website here.
NWS Louisville: Training Documents and Exercises. Some basic and also more advanced training information along with many downloads here. Also links galore here.
NOAA Cloud Chard (2.2m) cloudchart.pdf
"Ethanol Gasoline Blends and Small Engines" from the Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service (80k) BAE-1746pod.pdf
NOAA NWS Climate Prediction Center Three-Month Outlook and other links found here.
