I’ve gathered together a list of regularly updated resources for climate monitoring. This is the kind of information you can use to get a reasonably up-to-date view of what’s happening around the world in the climate. This can be surprisingly hard to do and there are some blind spots, which are slowly getting filled over time. Thanks to Ruth Mottram, Andrew Watkins, Oliver Bothe, Mark McCarthy, Tim Osborn, Robert Dunn for suggestions and (many) additional links.

Overviews:

The eye of Sauron (The BAMS State of the Climate Report)

Once a year its burning gaze sweeps the earth frazzling hapless Orcs that get in its way.

https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/bams

A lesser eyelet of Sauron would be the WMO annual statements:

https://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/wcp/wcdmp/CA_2.php

https://public.wmo.int/en/our-mandate/climate/wmo-statement-state-of-global-climate

One ring to rule them all

NCDC State of the Climate report is the uber monthly resource. Not only do they provide a global perspective, but they also link to primary sources wherever possible

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/

(a second ring to sort out the bureaucracy and such)

JMA also do a similar kind of thing to NCDC, but its more data oriented, sifting CLIMAT and SYNOP reports and highlighting interesting events in a more automated way.

http://ds.data.jma.go.jp/tcc/tcc/products/climate/

Particularly nice is the CLIMAT viewer which gives access to CLIMAT info in a map and click form

http://ds.data.jma.go.jp/gmd/tcc/tcc/products/climate/climatview/frame.php

(a third ring etc.)

WMO has a list of national met services. Climate isn’t necessarily managed by the met service. Some countries have an Agromet service or some sort of Hydrological service. These can be good starting points, but they can also mire you down in endless click circles and dodgy google tranlsations

https://public.wmo.int/en/about-us/members

(A fourth ring running around in the background making sure all the computers work)

Climate Diagnostic Bulletins from CPC. This is a more technical exploration of the climate, focusing on large scale flow and such like:

http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/CDB/

(A fifth.. no, this is silly)

IRI map room. Uses CMAP data sets to provide up to date climate monitoring

http://iridl.ldeo.columbia.edu/maproom/Global/index.html

Country or Regional resources:

This is something of a mixed bag. Some countries provide nice monthly summaries. Some provide news items about unusual events. Some do both, in different places. These are the ones I’ve found that have some form of regular or semi-regular climate reporting.

WMO Country Profile Database

The WMO provides some country level climatological information.

https://cpdb.wmo.int/

Africa – WMO Region 1

Regional Climate Centre fro WMO Region 1: Tunisia (covers North Africa)

http://www.meteo.tn/htmlen/donnees/climatemonitoring.php

ACMAD home –

http://acmad.net/new/

ACMAD climate bulletins (with archive)

http://acmad.net/rcc/monthlybulletin.php

CPC African Desk

https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/international/africa/africa.shtml

Tanzania State of the Climate

http://www.meteo.go.tz/publications/48

Asia – WMO Region 2

Regional Climate Centre for WMO Region 2: China

http://www.rccra2.org/channel.php?channelId=2

Regional Climate Centre for WMO Region 2: Tokyo (there’s one for Moscow too, but all the climate monitoring information is more than a year in arrears)

http://www.rccra2.org/channel.php?channelId=4

India – monsoon information (note this is a new page and it doesn’t work for me)

http://www.imd.gov.in/pages/monsoon_main.php

South Korea – climate summaries – DISCONTINUED

http://web.kma.go.kr/eng/aboutkma/notice.jsp?bid=eng_notice&mode=view&num=72

Russia – monthly and other summaries (in Russian, unsurprisingly)

http://www.meteoinfo.ru/climat-tabl3

South America – WMO Region 3

Argentina – facebook page with up-to-date info and main website for special statements

https://www.smn.gob.ar/clima/vigilancia

https://www.smn.gob.ar/vigilancia-variaciones-del-%C3%BAltimo-a%C3%B1o

Mexico – monthly temperature and precip summaries with ENSO impacts etc.

https://smn.cna.gob.mx/es/reporte-del-clima-en-mexico2

CIIFEN

http://crc-osa.ciifen.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=89&Itemid=446

Brazil (some interactive map plotting tools)

http://www.inmet.gov.br/portal/index.php?r=clima/quantis2

Chile: Boletín Sequía Meteorológica

http://www.meteochile.gob.cl/PortalDMC-web/index.xhtml

https://climatologia.meteochile.gob.cl/application/index/boletinEventosExtremos

Venezuela (a few months in arrears):

http://www.inameh.gob.ve/web/climatologia2/climatologia.php

North America – WMO Region 4

USA – NCDC

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/

Southwest Pacific – WMO Region 5

Australian Bureau of Meteorology

http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/ General front page

http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/current/ Special reports etc.

http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/outlooks/#/overview/video Video overviews of the recent climate with an outlook for the next while

http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/ahead/outlooks/archive.shtml Older outlooks

coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef:

http://www.gbrmpa.gov.au/media-room/coral-bleaching

Indonesia – google translate doesn’t like some of these pages. Not sure why, but it can translate the text if you copy-paste it. Alternatively, learn the language.

http://www.bmkg.go.id/iklim/buletin-iklim.bmkg

New Zealand climate update

http://www.niwa.co.nz/climate/summaries

Fiji – monthly weather summaries

http://www.met.gov.fj/climate_services.php

Click to access Summary1.pdf

Tonga – monthly weather summaries (only past month, no archive, wayback archives very sporadic)

Click to access last_months_climate_summary.pdf

Europe – WMO Region 6

DWD Region VI monitoring page

https://www.dwd.de/DE/klimaumwelt/klimaueberwachung/europa/europa_node.html

Climate Indicator Bulletins (not very regular, but very useful when they appear):

http://cib.knmi.nl/mediawiki/index.php/CIBs

Europe Severe Weather Database:

http://www.eswd.eu/cgi-bin/eswd.cgi

ECA&D map plotter

http://www.ecad.eu/utils/mapserver/eobs_maps.php

UK Met Office

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate/uk/summaries

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/climate-anomalies/#?tab=climateAnomalies

Finland

https://www.ilmatieteenlaitos.fi/lampimin-ja-kylmin-paikka-vuosittain



Germany

https://www.dwd.de/DE/leistungen/klimastatusbericht/klimastatusbericht.html?nn=480164

Greece

http://www.hnms.gr/emy/el/climatology/climatology_extreme

Hungary

https://www.met.hu/eghajlat/magyarorszag_eghajlata/eghajlati_visszatekinto/elmult_evek_idojarasa/

Iceland – they have some data for selected stations

http://en.vedur.is/climatology/data/

Montenegro

http://www.meteo.co.me/misc.php?text=128&sektor=1

Meteo France weather and climate news

http://www.meteofrance.fr/actualites;jsessionid=1C42B3A76EB619CD0355F9DC38B507DC.11

http://www.meteofrance.fr/climat-passe-et-futur/bilans-climatiques

Norway climate stats

https://www.met.no/en/weather-and-climate/Last-months-weather-vs-the-norm

Romania



Austrian Klima stats

http://www.zamg.ac.at/cms/de/klima

Bosnia and Herzegovina

http://www.fhmzbih.gov.ba/latinica/KLIMA/analiza-godina.php

Slovakian climate blog

http://www.shmu.sk/sk/?page=2049

Slovenia natural hazards news

http://meteo.arso.gov.si/met/sl/climate/natural-hazards/

Serbia, pdf monthly bulletins that google translate mangles

http://www.hidmet.gov.rs/ciril/meteorologija/agrometeorologija.php

KNMI – knowledge centre – provides in depth studies of certain events.

http://www.knmi.nl/cms/kenniscentrum

Spain http://www.aemet.es/en/serviciosclimaticos/vigilancia_clima

Met Eireann – The Irish Met Service Online – Monthly weather summaries

http://www.met.ie/climate/monthly-weather-reports.asp

Switzerland – English versions can lag German versions

http://www.meteoschweiz.admin.ch/home/klima/klima-der-schweiz/monats-und-jahresrueckblick.html

http://www.meteoswiss.admin.ch/home/climate/the-climate-of-switzerland/monthly-and-annual-reports.html

Denmark – annual temperature plots

http://www.dmi.dk/en/klima/klimaet-frem-til-i-dag/danmark/temperatur/

Portugal – lots of plots, with info under climate and agromet tabs

https://www.ipma.pt/en/oclima/monitorizacao/

https://www.ipma.pt/en/agrometeorologia/info-mensal/

http://www.ipma.pt/pt/publicacoes/boletins.jsp?cmbDep=cli&idDep=cli&idTema=&curAno=-1

Estonia



Sweden

https://www.smhi.se/klimat/klimatet-da-och-nu/arets-vader

Turkey

https://www.mgm.gov.tr/veridegerlendirme/il-ve-ilceler-istatistik.aspx?k=D

Topic related

Global Temperatures and surface temperature data sets

Met Office Hadley Centre hadobs web page for HadCRUT4 (CRU visuals of HadCRUT)

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadcrut4/

Cowtan and Way – based on HadCRUT with the gaps filled by Kriging (various flavours)

http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~kdc3/papers/coverage2013/series.html

NOAA NCDC MLOST

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/monitoring-references/faq/anomalies.php

ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/mlost/operational/products/ (the good stuff, numbers and such)

GISTEMP NASA GISS

http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/

JMA – not so widely used, but has been reported a lot recently. Frustratingly, no data just plots.

http://ds.data.jma.go.jp/tcc/tcc/products/gwp/temp/ann_wld.html

Berkeley Earth – not updated frequently, but has loads of useful tools for looking at continents, countries etc.

http://www.berkeleyearth.org/

Tropospheric Temperatures

UAH MSU

http://www.nsstc.uah.edu/data/msu/t2lt/uahncdc_lt_5.6.txt

RSS MSU

http://www.remss.com/measurements/upper-air-temperature

http://data.remss.com/msu/monthly_time_series/ (just cut to the data already)

Ocean Heat Content

http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/OC5/3M_HEAT_CONTENT/

ENSO

http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/enso/ BoM ENSO wrap up – the ne plus ultra of ENSO monitoring

http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/enso_advisory/ensodisc.html

http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/lanina/enso_evolution-status-fcsts-web.pdf CPC also provide detailed weekly diagnostics

http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/wcp/wcasp/enso_update_latest.html WMO status update

http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/enso/mei/index.html#data Multivariate ENSO index

http://iri.columbia.edu/news/ IRI post news bulletins with a bit of a richer context

Divers Indices

https://stateoftheocean.osmc.noaa.gov/sur/ind/dmi.php Dipole Mode Index and many others (OOPC/NOAA)

CRU/Jones SOI https://crudata.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/soi/

CRU/Jones NAO https://crudata.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/nao/index.htm …

CRU Lamb Weather Types for UK https://crudata.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/lwt/#Grid_centred_on_the_UK …

CRU scPDSI drought index (used in SotC) https://crudata.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/drought/ …

CRU TS multi-variable incl. precip https://crudata.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/hrg/

Tropical Storms, Cyclones, Typhoons, Hurricanes

(Nearly) up-to-date info, Historical tracks and climatologies can be found in IBTrACS:

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/ibtracs/index.php?name=ibtracs-tab-num-ann-nhc

National Hurricane Centre (North Atlantic, East Pacific)

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/MIATWSAT.shtml

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/MIATWSEP.shtml

Central Pacific

http://www.prh.noaa.gov/cphc/tcpages/archive.php

Northern Indian Ocean

http://www.rsmcnewdelhi.imd.gov.in/index.php?lang=en

Southwest Indian Ocean

http://www.meteo.fr/temps/domtom/La_Reunion/webcmrs9.0/anglais/index.html

http://www.meteofrance.re/cyclone/saisons-passees

Australia

http://www.bom.gov.au/announcements/sevwx/

Pretty good overall summaries for all basins including historical archives, ACE etc.

http://tropical.atmos.colostate.edu/Realtime/

It can be fun to look at pressure, wind speed and wave heights from NDBC buoys when a tropical storm passes over:

http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/

Wikipedia is pretty good on tropical storms

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_hurricane_season

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_hurricane#List_of_seasons

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_typhoon_climatology

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Indian_Ocean_tropical_cyclone_season#2010s

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South-West_Indian_Ocean_tropical_cyclone_climatology#2010s

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_region_tropical_cyclone_climatology#2010s

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Pacific_tropical_cyclone_season#2010s

Sea level

NASA has an up to date sea level chart

http://sealevel.nasa.gov/understanding-sea-level/key-indicators/global-mean-sea-level

CSIRO and Colorado provide estimates of global sea level using altimeters

http://www.cmar.csiro.au/sealevel/sl_hist_last_15.html

http://sealevel.colorado.edu

Pacific island sea level summaries are summarised by BoM

http://www.bom.gov.au/pacific/projects/pslm/index.shtml

NOAA sea level trend maps: http://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/sod/lsa/SeaLevelRise/LSA_SLR_maps.php

Colorado sea level wizard: http://sealevel.colorado.edu/content/interactive-sea-level-time-series-wizard

Sahel rainfall

http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/global_monitoring/precipitation/wafrica_1yrprec.shtml

Indian monsoon

http://www.imd.gov.in/section/nhac/dynamic/Monsoon_frame.htm

http://www.tropmet.res.in/~kolli/mol/first.html

Fire

Canadian Wildland Fire Information System

Fire Watch – Australia

Fire North – also Australia, different bit

Snow and ice

The PolarPortal is a good source for tracking Arctic ice and climate, such as sea ice extent and thickness as well as Greenland ice sheet surface conditions:

http://polarportal.dk/en/home/

National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) sea ice

http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/

Greenland ice sheet

http://nsidc.org/greenland-today/

Rutgers snow lab for northern hemisphere snow cover monitoring

http://climate.rutgers.edu/snowcover/index.php

Swiss Glacier Monitoring Service (GLAMOS) https://www.twitter.com/glamos_ch

http://www.glamos.ch

US Great Lake ice cover

https://www.glerl.noaa.gov/data/ice/#historical

Odds and Ends

KNMI Climate Explorer – a handy but limited tool for playing with lots of data sets

http://climexp.knmi.nl/start.cgi?someone@somewhere

Weather Underground: monthly summaries of climate events and extremes and an awkward and slow but handy tool for finding heatwaves by station

http://deutsch.wunderground.com/blog/weatherhistorian/comment.html?entrynum=312

http://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/SATK/2014/10/19/DailyHistory.html

Reading Weather and Climate blog

http://blogs.reading.ac.uk/weather-and-climate-at-reading/

Ogimet – amateur store of CLIMAT/SYNOP messages

http://www.ogimet.com/index.phtml.en

The Euporias weekly digest

http://paper.li/carlo_tuitter/1379071462

Extreme temperatures around the world

http://www.mherrera.org/temp.htm

Impacts

For some events, you can find information on impacts here:

http://reliefweb.int/

http://www.unocha.org/

Reading Global Hazards Weekly Bulletin

http://www.met.reading.ac.uk/~sgs02rpa/extreme.html

http://catastropheinsight.aonbenfield.com/Pages/Home.aspx

Slower update cycles

The US Global Change website has maps an info, that’s apparently updated, but I’m not sure how frequently.

http://www.globalchange.gov/browse

IPCC AR5 WG1 has a kind of monitoring component, chiefly Chapters 2 and 3.

http://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar5/wg1/

The Deep-C project has more resources on the Pause/Hiatus/Hiccough/Speedbump/Slowdown in warming

http://www.met.reading.ac.uk/~sgs02rpa/research/DEEP-C.html

CSIRO produce state of the climate reports too

http://www.csiro.au/Outcomes/Climate/Understanding/State-of-the-Climate-2014.aspx