Ben's windsurfing weather links

National Weather Service:

• Hourly Data MN/SD/Ontario
• Local forecasts MN/SD/Ontario
• Detailed data Anoka
• Detailed data Crystal
• Detailed data Minneapolis
• Detailed data St. Paul
• Local Chanhassen office

Weather Underground/MSP

• Current MSP radar
• Current MSP radar loop

Unisys Weather processor:

• MSP meteogram Graph of the last 24 hours
• MSP forecast meteogram Graph of the next 48 hours
• RUC 4 panel Short range, rapid update forecast. 3, 6, 9, and 12 hours.
• NGM 4 panel Next 2 days weather maps, isobars.
• ETA 4 panel Different computer model, same map.
• MRF 9 panel Next 10 days.
• Surface depiction IFR/VFR depiction for aviation.
• Wind streamlines Current wind.

University of Wyoming Atmospheric Sciences

• NGM forecast meteograms This updates quicker than Unisys, and is a good backup.

Aviation Digital Data Services An experimental web page that is just fantastic for viewing aviation weather data.

NOAA MAPS/RUC This is a research computer model used for developing the Rapid Update cycle. This is intended for forecasting the next 12 hours. For windsurfing, this is a good forecast to determine which lake to go to.

• Precipitation and wind barbs
• Wind strength and wind barbs

Intellicast/MSP

• Radar summary
• Radar loop
• Sailcast I'm not sure how good this is, but it is interesting.
• Windcast This might come from RUC, but I'm not sure.
• Kitecast I think this is dead, but let's keep checking it.
• Current winds Nice current wind map.

Ohio State University Atmospheric Sciences

• Wind vector forecast
• Current conditions map
• NWS data from OSU
• Text MOS/NGM This is the data used to generate the meteograms.

The Weather Channel

• Maps from the Weather Channel

Current winds plot from Penn State

WeatherNet Get more links here.

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