Re: [Cal_Boats] Wind Map

Allen - Cant remember if I've shared this site with you or not. It is a 48 hour forecast of the winds on the Chesapeake Bay. We've found the wind directions to be really accurate but the time that the wind changes direction to be off by an hour or more. _http://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/ofs/cbofs/wind_forecast.shtml_ (http://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/ofs/cbofs/wind_forecast.shtml) The home site is _www.baydreaming.com_ (http://www.baydreaming.com) and the above link is under weather & tides. Paul In a message dated 4/9/2012 11:47:54 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, al… [at] gmail.com writes: Hi, I put together a web map site that shows wind reports from the Buoy Data Center and the local Airports. There are similar maps on other sites but I find they don't report all these marine stations and the presentation is harder for me to read. It is hard, for example, to distinguish a wind arrow of zero length from one that is not reported. Perhaps there are other pages that are better than the one I looked at or than mine but I thought I would toss this out there to see if anyone was interested. Here is a sample for SF Bay _http://L-36.com/wind_map.php?lat=37.856422880849514&lon=-122.3931884765625_ (http://l-36.com/wind_map.php?lat=37.856422880849514&lon=-122.3931884765625) You can change the location if you want. There is some data outside the US but it is basically a US site. Allen

Very cool. That is a NOAA site. I wonder if they do it for other areas. Thanks for sharing. My equivalent, which does not have forecasts as it is observation only is HERE<http://l-36.com/wind_map.php?lat=38.35027253825765&lon=-76.343994140625&search=40> Allen On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 10:26 AM, <pw… [at] aol.com> wrote: > ** > > > ** > Allen - > > Cant remember if I've shared this site with you or not. It is a 48 > hour forecast of the winds on the Chesapeake Bay. We've found the wind > directions to be really accurate but the time that the wind changes > direction to be off by an hour or more. > > http://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/ofs/cbofs/wind_forecast.shtml > > The home site is www.baydreaming.com and the above link is under weather > & tides. > > Paul > > In a message dated 4/9/2012 11:47:54 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, > al… [at] gmail.com writes: > > > > Hi, > > I put together a web map site that shows wind reports from the Buoy Data > Center and the local Airports. There are similar maps on other sites but I > find they don't report all these marine stations and the presentation is > harder for me to read. It is hard, for example, to distinguish a wind > arrow of zero length from one that is not reported. Perhaps there are > other pages that are better than the one I looked at or than mine but I > thought I would toss this out there to see if anyone was interested. > > Here is a sample for SF Bay > http://L-36.com/wind_map.php?lat=37.856422880849514&lon=-122.3931884765625<http://l-36.com/wind_map.php?lat=37.856422880849514&lon=-122.3931884765625> > > > You can change the location if you want. There is some data outside the US > but it is basically a US site. > > Allen > > >