The Best Places on the Web to Geek Out Over Weather Science

Topics of endless fascination to humans: stuff that gives you cancer, heartwarming stories about dogs, and the weather. From wrecking our commutes (damn rain) to wrecking communities (stay strong Oklahoma), there’s no escaping it. Plus, it’s fun to geek out over—and easy to freak out over: Planet, enough with the polar vortexes and superstorms already! Stupid climate change...

Weather writer Eric Holthaus on Slate
Self-described as "Earth's 36th most influential eco-tweeter," Slate contributor Eric Holthaus tweets and writes gripping stories about weather stuff: how yak dung is contributing to climate change, how California's water-sucking almonds are just misunderstood, and the weather record-breakers that are making it harder to ignore global warming.

Windyty's incredible wind pattern map
Windyty is a mesmerizing, searchable, interactive map of wind patterns around the world. Not only is it beautiful to look at, it's packed with information: You can search for a specific location, zoom in and out to see granular details, toggle along a timeline to see past and future wind patterns, and expand to see detailed weather forecasts. Prepare to settle in—you're going to be playing with this thing for a while.

Meteorologist Stu Ostro on Twitter
Mesoscale convective systems! Tornado superoutbreaks! Chaotic cloud patterns!
Weather Channel Senior Meteorologist Stu Ostro is a climate connoisseur.

The Climate Desk online
The Climate Desk combines the resources of nine publications—including the Guardian, Mother Jones, and WIRED—to cover climate change and its connection to the extreme weather that fills our news feeds and inspires Boston's mayor to warn citizens not to jump out of windows into excess snow. Those superstorms, droughts, cyclones, and melting polar ice are all linked—and the polar bears aren't the only ones who are in trouble.

Karl the Fog on Instagram
Karl the Fog embodies San Francisco's mysterious microclimates, tracking the city’s infamous fog as it shifts around the city. San Franciscans need to follow him to know how many layers of polar fleece to stuff in their messenger bags; shorts-wearing in-landers need to follow him so they can point and laugh at our bone-chilling summer days.