Which weather website for Skydiving?

[aceofd1amonds 0]

Which website is the best for skydiving weather...with wind etc?

Thanks for the help!

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[firstime 0]

weather underground.com

[GLIDEANGLE 1]

I started by using www.wunderground.com, but now i MUCH prefer http://www.usairnet.com/cgi-bin/launch/code.cgi

The latter site even gives me a very nicely formatted Winds Aloft report (see button below the nicely formatted every three hour report).

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[aceofd1amonds 0]

Wow. thanks! This site is awesome for all types of aviation. Now lets skydive in Houston this weekend!

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[diverds 0]

Lots of those sites just scrape their data from NOAA anyway. I just go to the source. Not as pretty but I still prefer it.

www.aviationweather.gov

edit for clicky

Skydive Radio

[tetra316 0]

Whatever happened to skydiving weather.com? Or whatever it was.

[NWFlyer 2]

Search here for the airport's AWOS (if it has it) http://www.faa.gov/AIRPORTS_AIRTRAFFIC/WEATHER/ASOS/

I have all of the local DZs that have AWOS programmed into my phone.

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[LongWayToFall 0]

I usually do weather underground, then accuweather. Weather underground seems to be a bit on the optimistic side. Some good sites in this thread!

[jacketsdb23 49]

I usually go to the DZ and figure it out there. Most of the time its like...holy shit its too fucking windy to be doing anything. After about 2 hours - the wind usually gets stronger and I change my position thinking its not too bad.

I'm not jaded. And its only April....

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[mdrejhon 8]

A mobile website that's excellent on iPhone and BlackBerries would be cool too.

Though I can view almost every website on my Bold pretty fast now, with the new Bolt web browser. (I also use Opera Mini too, which is faster than BlackBerry Browser. Been an explosion of new mobile web browsers lately.)

[Airgump 1]

if you're up in orange, mass and going to jumptown to make some loads, gary pond is the genius on weather and finding holes to dump multi-color otter poop. (he references wunderground and then makes it happen.

steve boyd down in spaceland can also hold his own.

[jeffmullins 0]

adds.aviationweather.gov

[stoneycase 0]

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Which website is the best for skydiving weather...with wind etc?

Thanks for the help!

forecast.weather.gov

no question, imho. its noaa.

just supply your lat and long, or use the map.

for example, enjoy the hourly graphs (including wind, with gust speed) for skydive spaceland...in rosharon, tx.

http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?w0=t&w1=td&w2=wc&w3=sfcwind&w4=sky&w5=pop&w6=rh&w7=thunder&w8=rain&w9=snow&w10=fzg&w11=sleet&AheadHour=0&Submit=Submit&FcstType=graphical&textField1=29.37920&textField2=-95.45090&site=all&unit=0

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[kalaniwavo 0]

for winds - windguru.com

a great website for winds and also shows cloud cover percentages seperated by HIGH/MED/LOW levels

only downside is coverage is limited to certain areas

[Boeris 0]

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i MUCH prefer http://www.usairnet.com/cgi-bin/launch/code.cgi

The latter site even gives me a very nicely formatted Winds Aloft report (see button below the nicely formatted every three hour report).

Wow, that is a killer site...Thanks!

www.theflystyle.com

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[LouDiamond 1]

3 good ones:
usairnet.com
nws.noaa.gov
aviation weather.gov

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[skydived19006 4]

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Lots of those sites just scrape their data from NOAA anyway. I just go to the source. Not as pretty but I still prefer it.

www.aviationweather.gov

edit for clicky

I like usairnet.com, but they don't put the gusting information in their graphic. I'm going to start looking at the NOAA site for gusting, and see if I can "pull strings with usairnet, maybe they'll consider overlaying the gusting line?

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