Weather, Oceanography, & Related Information

 

Observations
*   Radar Sites
      • SFWMD - Voluminous Data
*   Select Satellite links
      • US Visible via GOES
      • US IR via GOES
      • Atlantic and Caribbean Tropical Satellite Imagery
      • SEUS, GOM, Atlantic Ocean & Carribean Visible Loop
        (Great for Hurricane Overview)

*   Sea States (wave height & direction)
      • Wave Heights - 00 to 144 hours out
*   Surf Cams (conditions near shore and some inlets)
      • Florida
*   Gulf Stream (servers are sometimes unavailable)
      • Current Position with velocities for last 4wks plus
      • Animated views of above link
*   Sea Surface Temperature
      • Worldwide

Good Web Sites
      • Intellicast.com   A Very good overall Wx site

Extensive Wx by Location
      • Extensive Conditions and Forecasts for Canada   Starting Point enabling investigation of this great Canadian Wx website

Not Wx, But Extremely Useful
      • Interstate 95 Road Conditions Florida to Maine - Zoom Enabled
      • ADS-B Exchange Worldwide Air Traffic Details
      • Flight Radar 24
Tools
*   Astronomical Data
      • Solar System Live Current Position of Planets, ...
      • View from the Sun User Selectable Views available
*   Tide and Current Predictor
      • Tide and Current Prediction
*   Compute Variation
      • Variation Computation by Lat/Long
*   Reference
      • Water Survival (Hypothermia) Chart
      • Trigonometry, Pythagorean Theorem, and Square Roots
      • Common Conversion Units

Various NOAA Products
      • NOAA Home Page
          – Weather Page
      • Aviation Wx   For those trained - invaluable
      • Hurricane Season Occurrence Image
      • Tropical Cyclone Climatology Where and When
      • Hurricane Predictions vs. Occurrence Image
  Accuracy of predictions has not been good since 1995 and starts major departure (2004) prior to Hurricane Charley. ZRD contends that historical is not 100% applicable - a new normal
      • National Hurricane Center For Atlantic and Eastern Pacific
      • Atlantic or Eastern Pacific Download or Print Tracking Charts

Notes:
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