It's easy to think of faraway places as being a little less real. Imagining their current weather can overcome that. These locations have some drastic differences but they all have an automated weather station, indicating the presence of inhabitants who need the information it provides. Its availability on the internet shows their desire to be connected to the global community--to you. You may need some of them. Many need you. When the destination becomes real to you, you have taken the first step in the adventure of a lifetime.

Background info: Significance of places is in parenthesis. The significance does not always mean that the station IS in that location, but the nearest regularly-reporting weather station.

AFRICA
Abidjan, Ivory Coast
Brazzaville/Maya-Maya, Congo
Cape Town, South Africa
Kilamanjaro, Tanzania (Mt. Kilamanjaro)
Madigascar (island)
Tamanrasset/Aguenna, Algeria (Sahara Desert)

ANTARCTICA
South Pole/Amundson-Scott Station
McMurdo Station
Pegasus Field

ASIA & INDIA
Chittagong Patenga, Bangladesh (monsoons)
Kathmandu, Nepal (Mt. Everest)
Male, The Maldives
Pevek, Siberia (Arctic Ocean)
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (desert)
Thiruvananthapuram, India (South tip)
Ulan-Bator, Mongolia

ATLANTIC
Ascension Island
Cape Verde (Islands)
Flores Acores, The Azores
Godthaab (Nuuk), Greenland (southern coastal)
Grand Cayman Island (Carribbean)
Guadaloupe (Carribbean)
Reykjavik, Iceland (volcanoes)
Thule AB, Greenland (northern glacier)

EUROPE
Gibraltar
Honningsvag/Valan, Norway (northernmost Europe)
Inverness, Scotland (Loch Ness)
Isle of Man, UK (Island)
Murmansk, Russia (Arctic Ocean)
Palma de Mallorca, Spain (Mediterranean)
Paphos, Cyprus (Mediterranean)
Sumburgh Cape, Shetland UK (northernmost UK)

Many of the above weather stations, along with unofficial (personal) stations can be found on www.wunderground.com. You may also check NOAA's Internet Weather Source. To see a worldwide list of official weather stations, click here.