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140 Strong Hall
Eastern Michigan University
Ypsilanti, Michigan 48197
734.487.0218
The Eastern Michigan University (EMU) weather program supports students in the environmental science, earth science, earth science secondary education, and elementary science education programs. Students can start learning about forecasting weather including severe weather to satisfy their general education requirements. Students have used this to explore a career interest in broadcast meteorology or weather forecasting. Students can continue on to more traditional weather survey and climate change courses that serve the earth and environmental science programs. Students can use these degree programs to continue on to a meteorology or climatology graduate program and compete for graduate assistantships that provide paid tuition, fees, and a stipend. Students can also use the general education experience at EMU with proper advising to complete their four-year meteorology degree program elsewhere starting in their Junior year.
Forecasters and weather students analyze various weather maps, radar and satellite images, weather models and more. These are more data dense than viewed on public media such as TV and phone apps. Use the drop down menus to access publicly available weather data used by weather forecasters.
Access Great Lake surface temperature and ice cover and US river flood stage.
Access surface-based Doppler radar images to see precipitating weather systems and their movement and high-resolution wind structure.
Access satellite images of the atmosphere including visible, infrared, and water vapor images. More functionality with images and loops are available at each location.
Access weather balloon data plotted on a special skew T diagram that allows analysis of precipitation type, air quality, and severe thunderstorm potential.
Access data from the network of weather balloons placed on weather maps of decreasing pressures (and therefore increasing altitudes) to get a cross-section of the atmosphere.
Access data from various weather models from rapidly updating short-term regional weather models to long-term global weather models. The links below takes you to one weather model output selection page for each model. Go to the Model Analysis and Guidance page for more options.
Access various long-range and hazardous weather forecast outlooks.
Go to the Weatherbug site.
A wet winter season is expected for southeast Michigan.
Weather has been shown to have little to no effect on Covid-19 according to a University of Texas -Austin study.
The Midwest derecho event of August 10, 2020 was the costliest severe thunderstorm event in U.S. history at over $7.5 billion.
See the local conditions and forecast.
Get high definition webcam views of EMU and traffic surrounding Ypsilanti, MI.
View the local, live radar.