Has the bad weather got you down?  Well, your library might not be able to make it any warmer, but we have plenty of resources to help you understand it!

Among our encyclopedic databases, AccessScience has some good articles on weather and weather prediction.  Science Resource Center has similar articles on weather mapping and forecasting, but has the added benefit of linking to a few journal articles and instructions for some novel do-it-yourself experiments, like making a homemade anemometer to measure wind speed.  Encyclopedia Britannica Online has some good, easy-to-digest material on the topic as well.

And other, more traditional databases like Wiley Online Library have access to a number of weather-related journals such as “International Journal of Climatology” and the “Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society”.  Access them from our databases page at http://www.iue.edu/library/research/articles.php

We have plenty of e-books, too, such as:

“Completing the Forecast : Characterizing and Communicating Uncertainty for Better Decisions Using Weather and Climate Forecasts” from eBrary

“A Dictionary of Weather” from Oxford Reference Online

“Heads Up! : Early Warning Systems for Climate, Water and Weather-Related Hazards” from eBrary

These links work on campus; otherwise you can get to them through IUCAT at http://www.iucat.iu.edu by searching the titles, and then clicking on the URL in the records.  A proxy login will be required.  Alternately, you can go to http://www.iue.edu/library/research/articles.php and choose a book source (in these specific cases, either eBrary or Oxford Reference Premium Online) and log in at the prompt, then search for the title.

And there are a few web sites that are free online, too, beyond the obvious ones like http://www.weather.com – for instance, check out http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/dailywxmap/pdffiles.html for daily weather maps for the last six months.

There’s also IU-Notify, IU’s program to send you emergency and closing information however you want it (email, phone, text message) – it can be set using Onestart, and the instructions are here: http://www.iue.edu/emergency/.

So don’t just suffer through the weather, understand it!  And don’t worry – spring is coming!