PKUNZIP.EXE (29k)
DOS Shareware

DOS Shareware used to extract Zip files for DOS or Windows based PC programs

Windows Software

AccuWeather for Windows
(1.5M)
Freeware

AccuWeather for Windows ™ This software comes with a minimum of 5 free hours of on-line time with AccuData®. This is absolutely free with no obligation. Use your free time to check out some of the over 35,000 AccuData weather products. Satellite, NEXRAD, maps, movies etc.

Digital Atmosphere v1.1a (2.5M)
Windows Shareware

Digital Atmosphere is a Windows graphics program that allows you to create, display, and print a variety of weather charts, maps, and analysis. It's similar to professional weather data analysis and plotting programs used by the National Weather Service.

Merlin v2.0c (201K)
Windows Shareware

Merlin is a newcomer to the hurricane tracker area, but it has a difference: it uses some artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms to analyze the track and forecast the movement of hurricanes. Merlin seems to be very easy to use, and is well thought out.

Tracking The Eye v1.7 (1.3m)
Windows Shareware

This is a Windows application for tracking hurricanes. It has
features like toolbars, status bars, graphs, color printing, print
preview, plus context sensitive help, "Tracking The Eye" can
calculate and display the distance between any city on the eastern seaboard and the hurricane it is tracking. Prints maps, storms & coordinates on any printer. It has special features like Animation, Sounds, VCR-like controls, statistical graphs and storm warning flags. It can also use data from other hurricane track programs.

WinStorm (220K)
Windows Shareware

WinStorm is a very well done Windows based hurricane tracking application. With it you can analyze current and historic Hurricane data by region, time, and intensity categories 1-5. There are over 900 past hurricane tracks from 1886-present included, but you can also plot your own lat /long tracks.

WinWeather (250K)
Windows Shareware

WinWeather Windows program that fetches hourly weather reports, forecasts, satellite pix, WeatherCam pix, and ski reports to your PC! It requires an Internet connection to get latest weather data and images from the US and the world. It also has an easy point and click bookmarking feature to memorize Internet weather data source addresses which makes it easy to have data and images fetched automatically.

DOS Software

Boltek StormTracker (450K)
DOS Demo

Storm Tracker is a lightning detection and analysis program and hardware for IBM PCs. It is designed to be a complete lightning detection, warning, and display system. Features include strike beep, storm alarm, strike rate, and strike counter, as well as a 300 mile range and data logging to hard disk

CALMET Metar Tutorial (103K)
DOS Freeware

The National Weather Service is phasing in a new surface observation coding format, called METAR. The Metar Tutorial teaches you the new format using a series of lessons.

Go'Canes! (500k)
DOS Shareware

Yet another hurricane tracking program. This one features configurable maps, storm tagging, animated plots of paths, and command line capability for fast plots. Many famous storm tracks are included. A DOS based Super VGA, VGA, or EGA graphics card and driver are required.

HurrTrk v6.0 (2.2M)
DOS Shareware

HurrTrk is probably the most widely used and most highly developed hurricane tracking program for the PC. It has some really well thought out tools and features, and has track maps that can be zoomed and sectored. HurrTrk easily to charts hurricanes as they grow from tropical disturbances to full fledged monsters! The program also has historical hurricane data for over a dozen famous storms, like Andrew, Camille, and Hugo.

PCGRIDDS (5.3M)
DOS Freeware

PCGRIDDS, a PC based Gridded Information Display and Diagnostic System, is a software package that allows the user to view meteorologically significant fields of gridded analysis and numerical weather prediction model output. The fields are displayed in either contour or vector format, whichever is appropriate for a particular field. This package also allows the user to extract a variety of information from meteorological diagnostic parameters computed from the gridded data fields.

Quik-Sky v4.6 (536K) DOS Shareware

This is a fun and and easy-to-use weather mapping application. Like WeatherGraphix and WeatherView, Quik-Sky generates weather graphics from raw alphanumeric data. All 50 states are supported. A mouse is advisable, but not required A DOS based Super VGA, VGA, or EGA graphics card and driver are required.

RAOB v3.5 (400K)
DOS Shareware

RAOB converts alphanumeric data into maps and charts to help analyze upper air conditions. It can plot icing, turbulence, severe weather data, hail, and lightning. This is a good tool for pilots or severe weather hobbyists. A DOS based Super VGA, VGA, or EGA graphics card and driver are required.

Sharp (383K)
DOS Shareware

A program that works similar to the ROAB program (above). Sharp converts raw alphanumeric data into upper air analyses.

WeatherGraphix v4.3a (640K)
DOS Shareware

This program will convert surface data and upper air data into high resolution color maps. In can turn text data into surface charts, isobaric analyses, and radar summaries. A DOS based Super VGA, VGA, or EGA graphics card and driver are required.

Here are some links to alphanumeric data to run WeatherGraphix:

Surface Data
Radar Echo Data
Synoptic Data
Ocean Buoy Data
Upper Air Data

The above data is from the Florida State University Weather Server.

WeatherCaster Gold (627K)
DOS Shareware

WeatherCaster Gold is a multipurpose weather forecasting, database and data analysis program. Features include: weather forecast generator from data input, weather unit conversion utilities, graphing functions, and a FAA Sequence Report (SA) observation decoder/display.

WxView V2.9 (337K)
DOS Shareware

WeatherView converts raw National Weather Service data (see lists of data above) into weather maps and numeric tables. Also Works with new METAR report formats. This program has many features that make analyzing weather data fast and enjoyable. A DOS based Super VGA, VGA, or EGA graphics card and driver are required.

Macintosh Software

Blue-Skies v1.1 (251K) Macintosh Freeware

Bring your weather maps to life with Blue-Skies v1.1, the innovative new software from the University of Michigan Weather Underground! Packed with powerful features, such as interactive satellite maps, Blue-Skies' multimedia interface makes finding weather data on the Net easy and fun. Perfect for K-12 earth science programs. Requires a SLIP/PPP account or direct Internet connection.

Blue-Skies v.1.1 for PowerMac (271K)
Same as above, but for PowerMac.

See above.

See above.

MacWeather v2.04 (116K)
Macintosh Shareware

This program retrieves weather data from the University of Michigan Weather Underground. With MacWeather v2.04, the latest forecast and conditions for over 1000 cities nationwide are just mouse click away. MacWeather automatically tracks down the data you request and displays it in graphical form. Requires an Internet connection.