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WEATHER & TIME
Australian Weather Service, Darwin AU:
www.bom.gov.au/climate/tropnote.shtml - weekly tropical climate notes for SW
Pacific and Eastern Indian Oceans
www.bom.gov.au/climate/current/trop_cyclone.shtml - Tropical cyclone & wet
season outlook for NW Australia
*Beaufort Scale:
http://www.anbg.gov.au/jrc/kayak/beaufort.html Australian site that explains
the Beaufort Scale.
Beaufort Wind Scale:
http://psychalpha.psych.su.oz.au/vbb/woronora/maritime/beaufort.html -
original version
Buoy Weather: www.buoyweather.com
- commercial weather service available via email and SSB radio.
Caribwx:
www.caribwx.com - Caribbean weather
Center for analysis and prediction of storms: www.caps.ou.edu/
Coast Weather:
http://clipper.coastweather.com/ - Fee for service detailed coastal weather
forecasting
Coastal Services Center of NOAA -
www.csc.noaa.gov - support environmental, social & economic well being of
coastal residents
ENSO explained (Enso - a long range prediction of wind and weather
patterns, El Nino/La Nina related, check every few months):
NOAA's ENSO Homepage:
www.ogp.noaa.gov/enso
NOAA Climate Diagnostic Center's ENSO:
www.cdc.noaa.gov/ENSO
ENSO Forecasts (Enso - a long range prediction of wind and weather
patterns, El Nino/La Nina related, check every few months):
NOAA's ENSO Homepage:
www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/lanina/ensoforecast.html
also -
www.cdc.noaa.gov/ENSO/enso.forecast.html
Institute of Global Environment and Society:
www.iges.org/nino
www.bom.gov.au/climate/ahead/ENSO-summary.shtml - eight long range ENSO
forecasts summarized.
SOI graph with frequent updates:
www.bom.gov.au/climate/current/soi2.shtml
Pacific ENSO update:
www.lumahai.soest.hawaii.edu/Enso/subdir/update.dir/update.html
French Weather Service (Meteo France):
www.meteo.fr - Weather related info - includes an English language option
for those that don't read french.
Global Change Master Directory: http://gcmd.nasa.gov
- Run by NASA, a global directory of Earth Data,
including Gulf Stream & Ocean Currents.
Global Marine Networks:
www.globalmarinenet.net/services.htm - GRIB weather products
Global Weather: www.taifun.org
Satellite images, cyclone advisories, winds aloft, radar, IR & water vapor
loops. Links to dozens of other weather sources.
Great Lakes Online:
http://glakesonline.nos.noaa.gov/geographic.html - water levels in
the lakes
Gulf Stream Data Websites: www.ncep.noaa.gov/MPC
A listing of good Gulf Stream sites, by the NWS
Gwendolyn Fishing Charters:
www.fishingtci.com - 866-990-3474, This is a charter fishing group, but has
weather for the Turks & Caicos Islands including tides, weather, fishing regs &
other info.
Historical Hurricane Track Tool:
www.csc.noaa.gov/hurricane_tracks - developed by NOAA with the Tropical
Prediction Center, it puts together population data and trends with storm
data for the past 150 years. It is searchable by storm name, US Zip Code, State,
County or lattitude & longitude.
Hurricane Hunters:
www.hurricanehunters.com
Jennifer Clark's Gulf Stream Web Site: http://users.erols.com/gulfstrm
Information and charts on the gulf stream via polar orbiting satellites with
thermal radiation sensors.
Lightening Tracker:
http://www.flamedia.com/lightning/light.htm - shows lightening hits all
around Florida.
Locus Weather: www.midcoast.com/~locuswx
- custom forecast packages.207-236-3935
Maptech:
www.maptech.com/mapserver: Well organized access to charts, topos, aerial
photos and more.
Marine Weather: www.marineweather.com
Comprehensive marine weather at any location. Much information and sorting is
necessary.
Meterological Monitor: www.navcenter.com
- free downloadable wx for users of Netseas MaxSea navigation software.
More Weather:
www.moreweather.com/tropics
- Dave Parsons says its a good site- esp. in Hurricane Season
National Climatic Data Center: www.ncdc.noaa.gov/extremes.html
Extreme Weather
National Data Buoy Center: http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov
provides a listing of all the data buoys so you can click and get real time
weather on buoys all over the country, including the Keys. Some have cameras on
the towers or buoys as well. - Also see Southeastern Offshore Buoys listed
below.
National Hurricane Center:
www.nhc.noaa.gov - Extensive tropical weather charts & satellite images -
also see the Tropical Prediction Center listed below.
National Oceanographic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA):
www.noaa.gov
National Oceanographic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Coastwatch:
http://coastwatch.noaa.gov Gulf Stream data. Must register & get
password. Images no more than 2-4 hrs old.
National Weather Service Marine Prediction Ctr: www.nws.noaa.gov/MPC
all weather charts transmitted by fax are now available here online. Esp. view surface,
500mb, sea state and forecasts for 24-48-96 hr.
National Weather Service Ocean Prediction Ctr (formerly marine
prediction): www.opc.ncep.noaa.gov -
weatherfax images by email and direct downloads
National Weather Service Marine Products:
www.nws.noaa.gov/om/marine/home.htm - NWS marine product info. NOAA's
Tim Rulon maintains an outstanding guide to all sorts of web and radio weather
resources.
National Weather Service Links:
www.nws.noaa.gov/om/marine/mlinks.htm
National Weather Service Internet Resource: www.nws.noaa.gov/om/marine/internet.htm
National Weather Service - Key West Home page: www.srh.noaa.gov/eyw
- good for local marine forecasts
NetSea: www.navcenter.com - free
look at regularly updated chart of N. American windspeed and direction
data forecasts by selected region.
NOAA Climate Prediction Center:
www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/outlooks/hurricane.html - Seasonal Atlantic
Hurricane Outlook - ENSO related.
NOAA Oceanographic Products:
www.co-ops.nos.noaa.gov - Real time
and extended tide predictions, now improved (Mar 03)
NOAA Operational Significant Event Imagery (OSEI):
http://www.osei.noaa.gov/ Satellite
Imagery - Weather, Fires, Volcanoes, Wars, Floods, Icebergs, Dust storms, Ocean,
Severe Weather, Snow Cover
NOAA QuickSCAT Satellite:
http://orbit212.wwb.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/qscat_day-1.pl - SeaWinds readings -
can read surface winds through cloud layers.
NOAA Temperature Monitoring of Reefs Globally:
http://www.nesdis.noaa.gov - Monitors
Degree Heating Week for reefs around the globe, as an indicator of potential
damage to reefs. Updated twice weekly.
NOAA
Tropical Prediction Center - National Hurricane Center:
www.nhc.noaa.gov/fax/marine/shtml -
Charts of tropical wx produced every 6 hours.
North Sea Weather:
http://home.pi.be/projects/waterweer/ North Sea Weather from several
agencies
Ocens/WeatherNet: www.ocens.com - GRIB
weather products. WeatherNet ($50 Oct 2003) software for "one stop" wx
shopping with 10,000 wx products & custom wx robots. Reduced file size
transmissions. 800-746-1462
OSU Wx:
www.asp1.sbs.ohio-state.edu - detailed weather site - serious wx geeks.
Royal Meteorological Society:
www.royal-met-soc.org.uk - From the U.K., links to forecasts, satellite and
radar images, detailed info on all weather related activities
Rutgers Univ Coastal Ocean Observation Laboratory (COOL):
www.thecoolroom.org - UW and Water
weather reports off coast of NJ. Data collected from multiple sources including
UW robotic sensing torpedo.
Satellite Active Archive: www.saa.noaa.gov
- Gulf Stream Data. Must register & get password. Images no more than 2-4 hrs old.
Southeastern Offshore Buoys: www.nws.fsu.edu/buoy/fl.html
Conditions at the buoys - wind direction & speed, gusts, atm pressure,
pressure tendency, air & water temp. Also see National Data Buoy Center
listed above.
Space Environmental Center: www.sec.noaa.gov/
Space Weather (where we want to cruise next - right?)
Stormchaser Home Page (Severe Weather): www.stormchaser.niu.edu/chaser/
Storm Tracks for the Atlantic: www.hawaii.edu/news/localweather/atl.latest.gif
Outline map of the Atlantic with latest storm info entered regularly to show the
track of storms.
Terrafin Software: www.terrafin.com
- SST-View online temperature charts. High resolution, updated daily,
targeted toward fishermen but also good for looking at gulf stream location.
From NOAA's polar satellites. Entire US Coastline and west coast of Mexico
to Manzanillo.. Also displays lat/lon grid, bottom contours and reference
points. Must subscribe for $95 per year (2002 price), then get daily access to
password protected website. 800-993-0939.
Tides Online:
http://tidesonline.nos.noaa.gov/ Tides around the country with data
printouts, graphs, windspeeds, etc.
Tides: www.harbortides.com -
pull up tides via location or zip code
Tideware: http://www.tideware.com/ -
Software for realtime tides, currents and coastal maps. Download free
Tide Player & Sample maps
Time: www.time.gov
The official time down to the second . graphic info for the US and
all US territories.
Time: www.tycho.usno.navy.mil -
Time service dept of the US Naval Observatory - official source for time.
Tropical Storms Worldwide:
http://www.solar.ifa.hawaii.edu/Tropical/ - Univ of Hawaii, access to storm
data worldwide
US Naval Observatory:
www.navcent.uscg.gov - Sun and moon rise/set times, moon phases, eclipses
and other data.
US Navy Fleet Numerical Meterology & Oceanography Center:
www.fnoc.navy.mil - Excellent weather
charts and satellite images
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research: www.ucar.edu/wx.html
- weather research on forecasting
University of IL WW2010 site: www.2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/maps/home.rxml
Decoding the forecast -
goes over Wx chart symbols & abbreviations & teaches
how to read.
Wave Heights - Florida Straits & Caribbean -
http://www.navo.navy.mil/cgi-bin/graphic.pl/metoc/336/21/0-0-1/2
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US Navy
The Weather Channel: www.weather.com/twc/homepage.twc
- This site also has a Tropical Weather section
The Weather Channel, United Kingdom :
http://uk.weather.com/index.html
Weather Guy: www.weatherguy.com -
Rick Shema, meteorologist. Race forecasts, optimized routes, safe passage.
808-291-9949, HI
*Xaxero: www.xaxero.com - GRIB viewer
- the WindPlot 7.1 (Oct 2003). Wind only version is free, full feature program
costs $79. Handles date in .grb and .bz2 formats. Contains surface wind at 2 &
10 meters, pressure at sea level, hgt of 500mb contour, wind at 500mb, air temp
at 10 meters, cloud cover, precipitation, wind waves, wave swell, primary wave,
secondary wave, surface currents, sea surface temps, subsurface temp to 400
meters, ocean subsurface mided layer hgt, subsurface salinity.
FLORIDA KEYS EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
INFO (HURRICANES INFO)
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA): www.fema.gov
preparation & protection info, and mirrors
the Nat Hurricane Center info when that gets overloaded
during storms.
Florida State Emergency Operations Center (EOC): www.dca.state.fl.us/eoc/
posts situation reports
BIBLIOGRAPHY ON LIGHTNING, AND
CONCERNS AND STEPS FOR BOATERS:
Boating - and Lightning Protection, William J Becker, Univ. of Florida.
http://www.cdc.gov/nasd/docs/d000001-d000100/d000007/d000007.html
Boating Safety - No Absolutes! National Lightning Safety Institute www.lightningsafety.com/nlsi_pls/boating.html
Educating Individuals about Lightning. Holle, Lopez, Vavrek & Howard.
National Severe Storms Laboratory,
NOAA www.nssl.noaa.gov/~holle/phx6.html
Human Voltage - what happens when People and Lightning Converge, NADA
Marshall Space Flight Center,
http://science.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/essd18jun99_1.htm
NLSI Standard Reference Work, National Lightning Safety Institute,
www.lightningsafety.com/nlsi_info/nsli_standard_references.html
Resource Listing for Weather and Climate Instruction, Holle & Vavrek,
National Severe Storms Laboratory,
NOAA, www.nssl.noaa.gov/resources/
Questions & Answers about Lightning. National Severe Storms
Laboratory, NOAA.
www.nssl.noaa.gov/edu/ltg
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Capn Gregs List:
Wave Heights - Florida Straits & Caribbean -
http://www.navo.navy.mil/cgi-bin/graphic.pl/metoc/336/21/0-0-1/2
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US Navy
National Weather Service - Key West Home page: www.srh.noaa.gov/eyw
- good for local marine forecasts
Lightening Tracker:
http://www.flamedia.com/lightning/light.htm - shows lightening hits all
around Florida.
NOAA Operational Significant Event Imagery (OSEI):
http://www.osei.noaa.gov/ Satellite
Imagery - Weather, Fires, Volcanoes, Wars, Floods, Icebergs, Dust storms, Ocean,
Severe Weather, Snow Cover
Wave Heights - Florida Straits & Caribbean -
http://www.navo.navy.mil/cgi-bin/graphic.pl/metoc/336/21/0-0-1/2
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US Navy
Tides: www.harbortides.com -
pull up tides via location or zip code
NOAA
Tropical Prediction Center - National Hurricane Center:
www.nhc.noaa.gov/fax/marine/shtml -
Charts of tropical wx produced every 6 hours.
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