Weather

To know when it's time to soar use these weather related links.

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    Web Link Colorado BlipMap Univiewer

    Essential soaring forecast tool for the front range.

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    Web Link Weather Underground Boulder

    Boulder, CO Weather Conditions

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    Web Link FAA WeatherCams for Colorado

    This site is really a one-stop site for most aviation weather and other info like TFRs, Pireps etc

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    Web Link NCAR Foothills Lab Weather Station

    Site gives you real time and very cool historical weather from NCAR Foothills Laboratory located about 1/2 mile from the field.

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    Web Link Intellicast Boulder Weather

    Is today going to be hotter than yesterday and what is the trend? Use this page to give you a good chart forecast of the next several days.

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    Web Link NOAA RUC Soundings

    The killer app of soundings. This JAVA based sounding can be for any location and gives you all the Skew-T information by pointing at the graphic with your mouse. Learning how this applet works and understanding the information it presents will really pay dividends. Try this out for a custom sounding anyplace including Boulder.

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    Web Link Air Sports Net Weather (Boulder)

    Surface condition weather forecasting for air sports aviators.

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    Web Link BlipMap by Dr. Jack

    Dr Jack is the creator of the TIP (Thermal Index Prediction) and BLIP (Boundary Layer Information Prediction) programs for predicting thermal soaring conditions, and the WINDIP (Wind Information Prediction) and LWIP (Linear Wave Interpretation Page) pages for predicting mountain wave conditions. You can become a registered user or subscriber at this site and this is well worth the effort.

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    Web Link Colorado AWOS

    Map of Colorado automated weather observation systems.

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    Web Link Current Niwot Ridge Meteorological Data

    Meteorological data are from the Saddle, at 3528m (11,572 ft) on Niwot Ridge. The peak wind gust information is recorded instantaneously, with a sampling interval of 5 seconds. The other measurements are one hour averages comprised of 720 samples collected at 5 second intervals.

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    Web Link Denver NexRad

    Denver NEXRAD loop for local heavy weather including T-storms.

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    Web Link GOES East Water Vapor Loop

    BC's favorite link.

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    Web Link Jet Stream at Boulder

    When the jetstream comes over the front range it's a good indicator of gusty conditions.

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    Web Link National Wind Technology Center

    This sensor is 80 feet atop one of the windmills down by Rocky Flats.

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    Web Link NCAR Foothills Lab Web Cam

     Camera is located at west end of runway on top of NCAR's Foothills Laboratory.

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    Web Link NOAA's Aviation Weather

     Prime general aviation weather sites. Great wind matrix, satellite and radar, etc. A good stop for general synoptic weather.  

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    Web Link Surface Chart USA

     For continental United States.

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    Web Link Tundra Cam

    TundraCam is located 64 km (40 miles) northwest of Denver, Colorado (USA) at an elevation of 3528m (11,600'). The cam is only 27 km (17 miles) west of Boulder, Colorado, shown above. More specifically, it lies above timberline on Niwot Ridge in the Front Range mountains. The peaks at the head of the ridge form the Continental Divide. The camera blows away from time to time.  

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    Web Link Weather Channel Boulder Weather

    Weather Channel forecast.     

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    Web Link WunderMap

     Weather Underground interactive weather site.