Provided by a partnership with Department of Conservation, Maine Geological Survey

Here are links to reliable sites for comprehensive weather information, satellite images, weather maps and tide charts. Some of the images are large; some of the links are slow (especially when there's "interesting" weather somewhere). 

National Weather Service Forecast Offices in Maine These sites offers text-based weather product files, graphics and a wealth of educational material. Gray, Maine Caribou, Maine Interactive Weather Information Network (IWIN) The National Weather Service's Internet data source.. This service now peaks at over two million visits per day. State of Maine Data, Graphics Version State of Maine Data, Text  Version National Home Page, Enhanced Graphics version (Multiple live image screen - auto updating) National Home Page, Graphics version (Netscape enhanced -- inline graphics, tables etc...) National Home Page, Text version (best for low speed links or non-enhanced viewers) University of Wisconsin Space Science and Engineering Center These large images are the highest resolution satellite images we've found. Often 500-to-600 kb in size, the visible images can provide some spectacular images of storms. Index to weather images SSEC home page Unisys Weather WXP, the Weather Processor WXP, the Weather Processor, is a suite of routines for analyzing and displaying meteorological data and satellite images. WXP originated at Purdue University but is now being developed by Unisys. It is intended to be an general purpose weather visualization tool for near-realtime and archived meteorological data. Unisys Weather Home Page  Intellicast: a service of WSI Corporation Local conditions and forecasts; near-realtime doppler radar images. Not especially good for satellite imagery; the images are small composites generated from infrared satellite imagery. They do load quickly, however. Portland weather USA weather Intellicast home page The Weather Channel The same as on your TV, only without the happy talk. Much improved images and maps; nice city pages; late breaking weather news.... A nice site.... Augusta weather Weather maps and images Weather Channel home page EarthWatch Communications, Inc. Like those neat 3-D images on TV? EarthWatch Communications is where you'll find them on the 'Net. Not the most current or most detailed, though....  Earth Watch, Inc. home page Graphical Hydrometeorological Discussion Information available includes current and forecast river conditions, precipitation, temperature, and snow maps (when appropriate). Graphical Hydrometeorological Discussion Tide Charts Tide charts from NOS/NOAA CO-OPS