Weather Resources

Quick links: Tools / US West Coast Zones / US West Coast Buoys / Mexico / Hurricanes / Software / Pacific Northwest

Broad Reach Tools

• PredictWind - good marine weather routing, including offline apps
• Windy - good Visualization of a number of data source, and has better ocean currents viewing than PredictWind
• Zoom Earth - beautiful cloud viewing
• SailFlow - very high resolution models for the US
• Stormsurf - easy to consume GFS weather info based on region
• Saildocs - Valuable service that provides mail subscriptions to a variety of models and web pages
• Realtime Lightining Maps - LightiningMaps
• Realtime Lightining Maps - Blitzortung
• NOAA nowCoast - NWS Alerts and Radar viewer
• National Weather Service GIS View - tones of layers to explore
• Weather Spark - Fully Year Weather averages by month for cities around the world
• Nanoos NVS - US Marine Conditions Viewer
• The Climate Toolbox - Tons of historical data
• Coastal Emergency Risk Assessment
• Sea Level Station Monitoring
• National Weather Service Graphical Forecasts
• US Navy Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center
• University of Hawaii Tropical Weather Resources
• SkyVector - Worldwide Weather / "Radar" for Flight Planning

US West Coast Weather Information

• Weather Forecasts by Zone (from north to south)

  • US Marine
  • Pacific Overview
  • National Data Buoy Center
  • US Coastal Marine
  • US Western Coastal Marine
  • Northern, Central, and Inland Waters Washington Forecast
  • Southern Washington and Northern Oregon Forecast
  • Southern Oregon Coast Forecast
  • Northern California Coast Forecast
  • Central California Coast Forecast
  • Southern California Forecast
  • San Diego Forecast
  • Southern Oregon Homepage
  • Northern California Homepage
  • Central California Homepage
  • Southern California Homepage
  • San Diego Homepage
  • Offshore Waters Forecast (E Pacific Offshore of Mexico)

• Useful Weather Buoys / Stations on West Coast (from north to south)

  • National Data Buoy Center
  • Neah Bay - 6 NM North of Cape Flattery, WA
  • Cape Elizabeth - 20 NM West of Aberdeen, WA
  • OOI Westport Shelf
  • Columbia River Bar - 20 NM West of Columbia River Mouth
  • Newport Shelf - 12 NM West of Newport, OR
  • Stonewall Bank - 20 NM West of Newport, OR
  • OOI Waldport Offshore
  • Umpqua Offshore, OR
  • Port Orford - 15 NM West of Port Orford, OR
  • St Georges - 8 NM NW of Crescent City, CA
  • Humboldt Bay, North Spit, CA
  • Eel River - 17NM WSW of Eureka, CA
  • Pt Arena - 19NM North of Point Arena, CA
  • Bodega Bay - 48NM NW of San Francisco, CA
  • Point Reyes, CA
  • San Francisco - 18NM West of San Francisco, CA
  • Half Moon Bay - 24NM SSW of San Francisco, CA
  • NDBC Map Monterey - Santa Barbara
  • Point Santa Cruz, CA
  • Monterey - 27NM WNW of Monterey, CA
  • West Monterey Bay, CA
  • Middle Monterey Bay, CA
  • Cabrillo Point, Monterey Bay, CA
  • Point Sur, CA
  • Cape San Martin - 55NM West NW of Morro Bay, CA
  • Santa Lucia Escarpment, CA
  • Santa Maria - 21NM NW of Point Arguello, CA
  • Point Arguello, CA
  • Harvest, CA
  • Harvest Oil Platform, CA
  • West Santa Barbara - 38 NM West of Santa Barbara, CA
  • East Santa Barbara - 12NM Southwest of Santa Barbara, CA
  • Santa Barbara, CA
  • Santa Cruz Basin, CA
  • Santa Monica Basin - 33NM WSW of Santa Monica, CA
  • Mission Bay West, CA
  • Point Loma South, CA
  • San Clemente Basin - 33NM SE of San Clemente Island, CA

Mexico Weather Information

• Eastern Pacific Tropical Weather - compilation of NOAA forecasts and data
• eebmike.com - Hurricane storm and Weather Info
• Sonrisa Net - Baja Forecast and Discussion
• Weather forecasts for specific areas - Stormsurf
• GEOS-East - Sector View: Mexico - Band 13
• La Cruz de Huanacaxtle, Nayarit, Mexico Weather Conditions

Tropical Hurricanes, Cycloe, and Depression Information

• National Hurricane Center - Atlantic
• National Hurricane Center - Eastern Pacific
• National Hurricane Center - Central Pacific
• Force Thuirteen - Storm tracker
• Stormpulse - Storm tracker, includes many track models

Software

• The Weather Window - List of Weather Models and Software available to view them
• PredictWind Offshore
• TimeZero Navigator
• Expedition4D
• GRearth
• OpenCPN
• OpenGribs and XyGrib
• qtVlm
• Airmail and Viewfax

Pacific Northwest Weather Information

• Observations

  • West Point Lighthouse, Discovery Park
  • Northwest Weather Observations
  • 520 Bridge Wind
  • Washington Visible Satellite Loop
  • Tempest - PWS
  • Skunk Bay Weather
  • Station 46088 (LLNR 16337) - NEW DUNGENESS - 17 NM NE of Port Angeles, WA
  • Station SISW1 - Smith Island, WA
  • Station FRDW1 - 9449880 - Friday Harbor, WA
  • Station PTWW1 - 9444900 - Port Townsend, WA
  • Station TCMW1 - 9446482 - Tacoma Met, WA
  • Lake Washignton water level at Locks
  • Sammamish Lake water level
  • Dataquery 2.0 - Timeseries from USACE Northwestern Division (Search LWSC for Lake Washignton Ship Canal)
  • SensorPush
  • Tempest Weewx

• Forecasts

  • Northern Inland Waters including San Juan Islands
  • Puget Sound Marine Zone Forecast
  • East Strait of Juan de Fuca Zone Forecast
  • San Juan Islands Zone Forecast
  • Friday Harbor, San Juan Island
  • Victoria, BC
  • Strait of Georgia - south of Nanaimo
  • Strait of Georgia - north of Nanaimo
  • BC - South Coast
  • Pacific Northwest Environmental Forecasts and Observations

• Air Quality / Smoke / Fire

  • AirNow Air Quality Seattle
  • PSA Air Graph
  • PSA Map
  • Purple Air
  • WA Smoke Blog
  • EPA Fire Map
  • NOAA Smoke Visualization
  • Canada Smoke Blog

• Weather Offices / Blogs

  • Cliff Mass Blog
  • Seattle NWS
  • British Columbia
  • San Juan Islands Zone Forecast