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Hey, I've been doing some searching for useful weather links around the web, and I thought that I would share what I found that I thought would be helpful, and ask if there are any others that people like to check which might supersede some of these. This is just 20 minutes of looking around, so there may be other, better ones.

 

Intellicast Jetstream Forecast

 

Western Pacific Satellite Imagery

NOAA Satellite (IR, Vis, Vapor)

 

NOAA Geostat. Sat. Server

 

PNW Snowfall Forecast

 

Western US Snow Quality Forecast

 

US Wind Forecast

 

US Wind Chill Forecast

 

PNW Precip. Forecast

 

Tomorrow Night's Cloud Cover

(would be nice to find more local forecast)

 

Park-Oriented Forecasts

 

5000' winds aloft

 

10000' Winds Aloft

 

 

Any others you use?

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Yes, this could be in general forum. Lots of good links presented, but I like to keep it simple.

 

For weather forecasts, the NWS is best, and you can pinpoint a Fx from your regional center:

NWS Seattle

NWS Portland

NWS Spokane

 

Canada's NWS equivalent:

Environment Canada

 

Imagery loops are obviously important because the current pattern of movement can be predicted for the short-term future, complementing any forecast. Before heading out, I almost always look at two different imagery sites, one for the big picture and another that is more specific to the NW.

 

For big picture imagery, my fav is the GOES-West satellite Pacific Ocean imagery with an infrared moisture overlay originally developed at Purdue but sold to and now provided by Unisys:

Unisys GOES-West sat 12-hr enhanced infrared imagery

 

For the local precip pattern, this site is very accurate (more so than the higher-altitude Unisys imagery):

Intellicast 2-hour infrared radar loop

 

Quite often for me weather goes in hand with snow and avalanche conditions, so I check the avy forecasts in season. Other good sites for specific info and Fx models include the UW Atmospheric Sciences Dept and the Aviation Wx Center, all linked from Lowell Skoog's links list.

 

Many useful weather links here at Turns-all-year.com

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I like this winds aloft format:

 

 

FD1US1

DATA BASED ON 091200Z

VALID 091800Z FOR USE 1400-2100Z. TEMPS NEG ABV 24000

 

FT 3000 6000 9000 12000 18000 24000 30000 34000 39000

AST 3306 3309+08 2811+03 2517-02 2535-14 2449-25 245840 244948 243853

IMB 2320+09 2229+03 2335-11 2433-24 253440 243849 244154

OTH 0209 3412+12 2809+07 2510+01 2430-11 2439-24 244040 243949 243955

PDX 2806 3010+08 2614+05 2422+00 2439-13 2450-24 245440 244949 243954

RDM 2706+11 2416+09 2319+03 2329-11 2434-24 243740 244049 244254

 

http://aviationweather.gov/products/nws/fdwinds/dynamic/sfo_fd1.shtml

 

At 12000', The winds over portland are blowing from 240 degrees at 22 knots, temp is 0c.

 

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