The longer-term context behind today's weather, plus the weather above the weather. Ocean heat content, surface temperature departures, sea ice, ENSO and MJO state — and the sun above it all: live solar imagery from NOAA SUVI aboard GOES, geomagnetic activity from NOAA SWPC, aurora forecasts. Curated launchers and live data into Climate Reanalyzer at the University of Maine and the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center.
Daily SST and anomaly maps from the dataset behind the viral 2023–24 ocean-warmth charts. One to two-day lag from real time. Region selector for the world, North Atlantic, Pacific, Gulf, Indian Ocean, and the main hurricane main development region.
Surface air temperature and departure from the 1979–2000 climatological normal, daily. The atmospheric companion to SST — where the ocean and the air boundary meet, rendered as a global anomaly field.
Animated viewer for SST, 2m air temperature, and sea ice concentration. Date slider plays back through any year and basin. The fastest way to see how an anomaly evolved week over week, season over season.
Monthly aggregated SST and anomaly maps back to 1854 (gridded reanalysis). Long-term context for the daily snapshots — month-by-month, year-by-year, the full instrumental record visible in one place.
National Snow and Ice Data Center, University of Colorado. Arctic and Antarctic sea ice extent, daily and monthly. The polar boundary of the climate system — where the ocean meets the cryosphere.
Live solar-wind parameters from the DSCOVR spacecraft at L1, with ACE as backup. Interplanetary magnetic field magnitude, Bz component (southward is the one that drives storms), solar wind speed, density, dynamic pressure. The data that runs ~30–60 minutes ahead of geomagnetic impact at Earth.
NASA and ESA's joint solar-imaging platform. Combines SDO, STEREO, SOHO, and ground-telescope imagery into one interactive viewer, with solar-event markers overlaid (flares, CMEs, active regions, filaments). Build your own movies, zoom into any date and wavelength. The tool heliophysicists actually use.
Daily anomaly imagery from Climate Reanalyzer, University of Maine Climate Change Institute (CC-BY-4.0). Climate indices from NOAA Climate Prediction Center and the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado. Solar imagery from NOAA's Solar Ultraviolet Imager (SUVI) aboard the operational GOES satellite. Kp index, aurora forecasts, and real-time solar wind also from the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center. Helioviewer maintained jointly by NASA and ESA.