UIUC 6-Panel & 9-Panel Charts

This page is a tribute to UIUC's attractive 6-Panel U.S. surface charts, which disappeared when UIUC discontinued their "UIUC Weather World" weather section in the late 1990's.

They resurfaced again, bigger and better, with a new 9-panel chart, on Brian Jewett's Surface Analysis page but R.I.P. as of 1/05/04. He tells me that it will be started up again on a new machine "soon." If you've never seen one of these maps before, check out the examples or 6-panel and 9-panel animations below.

I note on this Internet Weather History page... "This example of a 6-Panel Surface Image from Feb 19, 1994 was a really cool 6-panel surface chart (they also had forecast versions of this and mpeg animations (remember GIF animation wasn't invented until 1996)). Since UIUC's current weather section has been discontinued this image is no longer made.

-Jesse Ferrell, Founder, WeatherMatrix

• What the Original 6-Panel Chart Looked Like
• What the New 6-Panel Chart Looks Like
• An Amazing Animation of the New 6-Panel Chart* (WARNING: Long Download!)
• What the New 9-Panel Chart Looks Like
• An Amazing Animation of the New 9-Panel Chart* (WARNING: Long Download!)

UPDATE 4/15/04: Brian still promises a speedy return...

*These large animations never existed, they are proof-of-concepts produced by WeatherMatrix. The original 6-panel chartwas animated as an MPEG in the mid 1990's. It is very easy to pick out weather fronts and storm movement with the animations.