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Radar
Power Outages
Power Outage maps and numbers
The most comprehensive US national power outage mapping site out there. View by national status, by state, or even by county. Break-down by power company as well. Follow their social media for regional views during storms.
Winds
Wind Alert (Live winds)
Thousands of wind stations on interactive map, colored wind representations, click any station for details on wind, wind gust, history, forecast and more.
Earth Wind Map
Visual representation of wind speeds at different heights. Click "Earth" in lower left corner for multiple options including SST's, wave heights and more, including the Aurora!
Wind Shear Maps
Areas of high wind shear (red) typically hinder tropical cyclone (hurricane) development and can tear those storms apart. Low wind shear (green) is more favorable to Hurricane development.
NOAA WeatherView
Global winds dataset based on GFS model of 500mb layer (20k feet up). Updates every 6hrs. Interactive visual map utilizes tracers technique to show wind speed/direction. Current winds to 5-days forecast & additional overlay layers. #NOAAWeatherView
Rain Totals
CoCoRaHS
24-hr rain total maps, typically updated around sunrise each day by public members of CoCoRaHS network. Select a specific state for more detailed results, full list below map.
USGS - North Carolina
North Carolina only - USGS rain gauges with totals available in 1, 2, 3, 6, 12, 24, 48 hour maps as well as 7-day totals. Can add overlay of gauge numbers and radar estimated rainfall colors. Sort data on right.
USGS - Georgia
Georgia only - USGS rain gauges with totals available in 1, 2, 3, 6, 12, 24, 48 hour maps as well as 7-day totals. Can add overlay of gauge numbers and radar estimated rainfall colors. Sort data on right.
USGS - South Carolina
South Carolina only - USGS rain gauges with totals available in 1, 2, 3, 6, 12, 24, 48 hour maps as well as 7-day totals. Can add overlay of gauge numbers and radar estimated rainfall colors. Sort data on right.
River Gauges
NOAA River Guages
NOAA River Guages, history, forecast, flood stage, etc.
NOAA tidal gauges history, forecast, flood stage, storm surge, etc.
Tidal Gauges
NOAA Tidal Gauges
Interactive NOAA Tidal Gauge map. Click an icon marker, then 'More Info', 'Meteorological' for additional obs and data.
NOAA River/Tidal
NOAA Tidal Guages, history, forecast, flood stage, etc. Also contains river gauges from across the US.
Buoys
NOAA Data Buoy Center
Global buoy data, concentrated around North America. Pressure, winds, wave height, and more, some with web cams.
NOAA Buoy Webcams
Images every 15min during daylight hours from numorous buoys on an interactive map!
DOT Traffic Cameras
SCHP Traffic Info
SCHP real time traffic/accident list. Troop number correspondes to regional areas in image.
NC Traffic Cams
NCDOT camera feeds. Change 'Select by Region' to zoom to camera feed areas.
SC Traffic Cams
SCDOT Camera feeds, about 30sec delay. Also check out free the 'SC511' Android/iOS apps.
Airplane Traffic
FlightRadar24
Live air traffic, great graphics and free info. Subscription for extras like Weather overlay. Watch planes divert around severe weather.
FlightAware
Live airplane traffic with weather overlay built in. Watch planes detour around severe weather and hurricanes.
Lightning Maps
Weather.US Lightning
Show Lightning from around the globe. Shows if positive or negative strike.
WeatherBug - Spark
Lightning detected within so many miles of specified location. WeatherBug app provides 10, 20, 30 mile radius.
Crowd Sourced
mPING
Crowdsourced ground truth reporting. NWS can review these. Radar only sees higher up, well above the tree line. So that snow on radar may actually be rain by the time it reaches you. Report and see where the wintry weather lines really are in relation to your location. Free and ad free. iOS & Android apps. Can also be used to report wind damage types, hail size, etc.
