Weather links for EAS 270

Local standard time (LST) in Edmonton is at present Mountain Daylight Time (MDT). Meteorologists time their weather analyses and forecasts to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), also known as Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and as "Zulu" (Z).

MDT = UTC - 6 hrs

(whereas Mountain Standard Time, MST = UTC - 7 hrs).

• Environment Canada forecasters' discussion (twice daily; courtesy of PRAIRIE AND ARCTIC STORM PREDICTION CENTRE, Edmonton and Winnipeg)

• Environment Canada weather analyses, RDPS forecasts (to ~54 hrs), and GDPS forecasts (to ~ 6 dys)

• Past weather (including Canadian Climate Normals)

• Satellite Images

• Satellite image of water vapour distribution over W. Canada

• Edmonton (Stony Plain) sounding

• Atmospheric Soundings (via U. Wyoming; long archive; option of text data)

• NCEP (USA) numerical weather forecasts: GFS (to 16 days) and NAM (to 3.5 days)

• Link to NAVCANADA Weather code and symbols legend

Last Modified: 25 Aug., 2016