New on this Server

20 December 1996

Regional 3-day forecast maps for Canada now available.

19 December 1996

Our server recorded its 14,000,000th hit at 10:05am EST today, from node bootp-18-200.bootp.virginia.edu

14 November 1996

Africa MRF maps available.

26 October 1996

Our server recorded its 12,000,000th hit at 9:27pm EDT today, from node port-13.pm4.barint.on.ca

24 September 1996

Our server recorded its 11,000,000th hit at 10:43pm EDT today, from node cd-38.continuum.net

Now posting tropical storm infromation for all ocean basins - updated at 3-hour intervals.

12 September 1996

COLA's September El Niño Forecasts are online.

25 August 1996

Our server recorded its 10,000,000th hit at 3:28am EDT today, from node palmer25.corcom.com

8 August 1996

Updated the key to the weather maps to reflect changes in data source, and use of gridded precipitation data.

1 August 1996

Added radar and gauge precipitation maps for the US (with the current weather maps).

16 July 1996

Our server recorded its 9,000,000th hit at 5:37am EDT today, from node marconi.te.rl.ac.uk

11 June 1996

COLA's June El Niño Forecasts are online.

9 June 1996

Our server recorded its 8,000,000th hit at 9:28pm EDT today, from node pool039.max2.cleveland.oh.dynip.alter.net

5 June 1996

East Asia MRF maps available - other regions coming soon.

3 May 1996

Our server recorded its 7,000,000th hit at 10:03am EDT today, from node orhi.iberdrola.es

2 May 1996

New format for surface weather - a la RUC and 3-day regional forecasts.

1 May 1996

New format for main web pages is implemented. Hopefully easier to navigate.

RUC forecast maps have been added.

18 April 1996

MRF Forecast meteograms for all "quick-look" cities are now available.

11 April 1996

ETA Forecast meteograms for the "quick-look" cities have been added.

4 April 1996

Java movie of NH circulation added.

2 April 1996

Usage stats for the first quarter of 1996.

28 March 1996

The 16-day MRF meteograms for selected US cities has been reformatted, and is now in 2 seperate images per city.

27 March 1996

Our server recorded its 6,000,000th hit at 10:09am EST today, from node oriole.dmi.usherb.ca

12 March 1996

COLA's March El Niño Forecasts are online.

5 March 1996

MRF forecasts for Europe out to 6 days have been added.

28 February 1996

FAQ on climate change and this winter's extreme weather has been added.

16 February 1996

Our server recorded its 5,000,000th hit at 6:41pm EST today, from node rofpop30.infosphere.com

11 January 1996

Our server recorded its 4,000,000th hit at 11:02am EST today, from node cber1.bus.utk.edu

2 January 1996

Usage stats for all of 1995. (More)

2 January 1996

Usage stats for the fourth quarter of 1995.

21 December 1995

Quick-Looks for major metropolitan areas are beginning to be phased in.

15 December 1995

Regional forecasts for the continental U.S. out to 3 days have been added.

14 December 1995

COLA's December El Niño Forecasts are online.

7 December 1995

Forecast maps fine tuned, color scales added for shaded plots.

21 November 1995

Our server recorded its 3,000,000th hit at 6:44pm EST today, from node 140.104.1.106

19 October 1995

Resources listing has been totally revamped.

4 October 1995

Usage stats for the third quarter of 1995.

26 September 1995

Soil moisture forecasts to 14 days from the MRF model have been added.

14 September 1995

Our server recorded its 2,000,000th hit at 11:05am EDT today, from node srl.ford.com.

12 September 1995

COLA's September El Nino Forecasts online

11 September 1995

Links to all the latest GrADS documentation added.

31 August 1995

Atlantic tropical storm overview page added.

29 August 1995

Aviation model forecasts over North America (12Z only) added.

Hawaii added to list of current weather maps.

25 August 1995

Hurricane forecast and wind maps now semi-automated, should be updated regularly.

23 August 1995

MRF forecasts and analyses for the tropics added.

Key for tropical maps added, key for other forecast maps updated.

16 August 1995

Hurricane Felix page added. Will add temporary pages for subsequent hurricanes of interest as events warrant.

27 July 1995

Southern Hemisphere MRF forecast maps added.

26 July 1995

Now downloading higer-resolution MRF forecast data, with Southern Hemisphere data now available.

00Z ETA and NGM data now posted around 06Z (2:00AM EDT).

10-day outlooks for the Mideast, South America and Australia/New Zealand added.

20 July 1995

Anonymous FTP access to GIF and Postscript files thru ftp://grads.iges.org

18 July 1995

Usage stats for the second quarter of 1995.

23 June 1995

Our server recorded its 1,000,000th hit at 4:58am EDT today. The lucky user was accessing us from h-castlerock.norfolk.infi.net.

13 June 1995

El Niño Forecasts as of June 1995 online.

Orographic shading added to the forecast maps.

26 May 1995

ETA and NGM forecasts reformatted, six panels instead of four.

25 May 1995

Climate anomaly forecasts for South Asia added to the weather/climate page

MRF forecasts for the Northern Hemisphere out to 120 hours added.

19 May 1995

A link to our listing of scientific and other resources on the Web has been added to the home page.

8-12 May 1995

Weather and Forecast Maps pages updated to include information on file sizes, and valid times.

2 May 1995

COLA's El Niño Forecast from the Experimental Long-Lead Forecast Bulletin is online.

4 April 1995

Medium-Range meteogram for DC from the MRF model added.

Usage stats for the first 3 months of 1995.

10 March 1995

Washington DC forecast meteogram (ETA forecast) added.

21 February 1995

Medium range forecasts for North America from the MRF model are available.

7 February 1995

COLA home page and maps page appear on several Internet navigator services. Traffic increases tremendously.

2 February 1995

48 hour weather forecasts (from NCEP) for North America available.

5 and 10 day precipitation forecasts for North America and Europe are available.

18 January 1995

Entry appears in "What's New on Mosaic".

29 November 1994

Daily weather analyses for the Northern Hemisphere available.

23 November 1994

Twice daily weather analyses for North America available.

21 November 1994

Mosaic server in beta test.

Hourly surface weather maps for the U.S. now completely automated.

3 November 1994

Hourly surface weather maps for the U.S. available

17 October 1994

The httpd server is running on grads.iges.org in experimental mode.