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Weather Links
Phone Robots
 Mt. Diablo Robot 925-838-9225
Mt Tam Robot 415-381-WIND
Fort Funston Robot 415-333-0100
Ed Levin Robot 408-946-9516
Briefings (A real person answers the phone)
Pilot briefing 1-800-WXBRIEF
Pt. Reyes Lighthouse weather 415-669-1534
Wind
iWindsurf Real-time wind
This site has many other wind-related features & services.
Fort Funston WebCam and winds
Northern CA buoys
Click on individual buoys to get more data.
Bodega Marine Laboratory
Next to Horseshoe Cove at Bodega Head
Windcast 24hr Wind Forecast for Calif.
San Francisco Bay Wind Patterns Near Real-Time
Nation-wide wind patterns pick the altitude
Windmapper.com - Curr. and forecast wind
RAWS (Remote Automated Weather Stations)
RAWS map - Calif. coast, central valley (Monterey)
RAWS map - Humboldt coast, Burney, Oroville, Clear Lake (Eureka)
RAWS map - Tahoe, Carson City (Reno)
RAWS wind reporting stations
Partial list, showing locations on map.
No. Calif. RAWS stations - table view
Google Earth Placemarks: No. Calif. RAWS stations See station locations in GE.
Wind reporting station - Mt. Diablo
A note on this station, from Robert Moore
Wind reporting station - Paiute Launch, Owens Valley
Paiute stations
Click on "Glider Port" for Launch conditions
Description of Paiute Transect stations
Winds Aloft - Pacific Coast Region from National Weather Svc.
Forecasts
Forecast Discussion
The mind of the weather person at work...
AccuWeather
National Weather Service - Marine forecast
Read the section: "POINT ARENA TO POINT REYES" for Goat Rock/Vista Trail, and "POINT REYES TO PIGEON POINT" for Funston
National Weather Service - clickable forecast map
National Weather Service - Shasta/Lake forecast
National Weather Service - Sonoma/Marin forecast
National Weather Service - Alameda/Contra Costa forecast
Forecasted launch conditions
Hang Gliding Weather Forecast
Thermal index report
(RAOB station: Oakland; temp: Sacramento (SAC))
Interactive Sounding plots
Quick Plot - another Skew-T source
Choose City: San Francisco; Sounding: Rapid Update Cycle
Dr. Jack's CA/NV BLIPMAPs
thermal soaring parameters.
Dr. Jack's BLIPs
for specific sites (Crazy Crk., Walker Ridge, Williams)
Winds Aloft Forecast
up to 24hr, various cities.
NOAA Rapid Update Cycle HomePage
wind, temp forecast maps & other info.
San Francisco weather
Berkeley Club page with lots of stuff - webcams, satellite images, etc.
Isobaric Analysis (highs and lows)
General Weather, Forecasts
Current Cloud Cover GOES West Satellite (visible/radar/water vapor, loops)
KRON4 Weather Page: Satellite loops, etc.
Weather Channel Forecast, satellites, radar
West Coast Satellites
No. Calif. 1KM visible satt. image
A loop of the above satt. image
Marine weather page The WORKS!
Background info, other Links
Wings Of Rogallo Weather page
Some good links, and
info on interpreting data.
Pilot's guide to aviation weather. Definitions, abreviations.
Airport location identifiers. Look in Section 6.
A great soaring tips link from Leo; very educatonal!:
http://www.community.net/~soaring/tips.html
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