The World Weather Map lets you click on a location, and get a plot by month of temperature (max/average/min), rainfall, and average number of hours of sunshine. A fourth tab supposedly gives you “Experiences”, a link list of things to do at that location, but the list sometimes includes activities a long distance (> 100 miles) from that location. You can also add an overlay showing what areas are “Hot”, “Warm” or “Wet” for a particular month.
The main website’s map is also flawed in that there’s no zoom feature, so for areas where the climate can change dramatically over a short distance (like the American Southwest), getting the climate for the exact location you want can be difficult to impossible. (1/24/2008: Fixed by the good folks at WorldReviewer; see the comment below) Oddly enough, there’s a widget version of this map that does include a zoom feature, and which can be embedded in any website, as below. Click and drag to move the map; click on +/- to zoom in and out; click on any point to get the climate data for that location:
Other posts in the Climate Change series
- Digital Atlas Of North American Woody Plants
- Mapping Carbon Dioxide
- More Carbon Dioxide Maps
- FAO World Climate Data
- Ice Age Palaeovegetation Maps
- Geothermal Resources Data
- Calculating And Mapping Climatic Change With EdGCM
- Downloaded US Weather Forecast Data In GIS Format
- The Global Change Master Directory: A "Must-Have" Collection Of Data Links
- National Solar Radiation Database
- Glaciers Of The American West
- Stormpulse
- Data Overlays For Google Earth
- Clickable World Climate Map
- Global Map of Human Impacts to Marine Ecosystems
Hi there…
Thanks for the review up of this. You’re right, it was silly not to allow users to zoom in on the main site. We have changed this.
Thanks!