Pertinent Links

Below are links that I thoroughly enjoy using to predict the weather:

The Weather Channel's website owns the URL of weather.com which posts basic data and images of weather systems across the United States. The link below is specifically used for the weather updates in Eau Claire, WI. I would suggest utilizing the map section of the site as well since they have many basic images that are easy to read.
http://www.weather.com/weather/today/Eau+Claire+WI+54701:4:US

The website below is updated via the national government and is, in my opinion, the best site for gathering weather data. Their images are top notch and can be accessed just by hovering the mouse over a given section of weather needs. These images are a bit tougher to read, but the legends generally do a good job of explaining what you are looking at.
http://www.noaa.gov/

The jet stream and surface winds play a huge part in the projection of weather and determining how long storms will stay in a region. The site below is live feed of the winds across the U.S. The web GIS utilized at this site are very advanced and user friendly. This site shouldn't be solely used to read the forecast though.
http://hint.fm/wind/

This site is beyond our time in a way! It uses web GIS to bring to users one of the most comprehensive and fun weather sites on the internet. Through the use of satellite, meteorologist and weather station data earth brings us a complex mechanism to investigate wind, temperature and more on the earth's surface. This source can be used to project possible weather and see anomalies on the earth.
http://earth.nullschool.net/

The site below is a great site for getting all of the current conditions in Eau Claire, WI. While this page shows the details of the weather it also shows a link near the bottom of the page in the form of an image. This link leads to a weather map that has changing variables for different times of the day. The page also shows the forecast for the following days of the week.
http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?CityName=Eau+Claire&state=WI&site=MPX&textField1=44.8212&textField2=-91.4923&e=0#.Uxysd_ldW8A

Winds make are a huge part of the atmosphere, such as the jet stream and surface. This page has many links that direct the user to different parts of the website. Some of these links include surface winds and upper air data. The most appropriate gauge to look at when viewing upper air data is at 250 mb. These maps give a very detailed description of the of the winds.
http://weather.unisys.com/

The link below shows the soundings of the weather across the United States. These sounding graphs show the dew point, dry adiabatic rate, moist adiabatic rate, and the air parcel. The y axis shows the atmospheric level in millibars and the x axis shows the weight of the air in g/kg. This is a great way to gauge what the day is going to be like. Each sounding also includes different indicators of weather processes on the right side of the graph.
http://weather.unisys.com/upper_air/skew/

This link shows the cloud types with images associated with each. Each cloud type is described in detail from high altitude to low. The link also describes storm clouds and how they form. Near the bottom of the page there is a chart of cloud classification that could help a user that is attempting to learn how to identify clouds.
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/lmk/?n=cloud_classification

Accuweather has great images and stories on its home page. The images often line up quite well with actual weather occurrences. These images usually simplify that more difficult trends to read and creates an easy to read version of the more complex data.
http://www.accuweather.com/