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Weather

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

  • Colorado BlipMap Univiewer
    Hits: 4024

    Essential soaring forecast tool for the front range.

  • Weather Underground Boulder
    Hits: 5152

    Boulder, CO Weather Conditions

  • FAA WeatherCams for Colorado
    Hits: 1766

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

  • NCAR Foothills Lab Weather Station
    Hits: 2715

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

  • Air Sports Net Weather (Boulder)
    Hits: 3571

    Surface condition weather forecasting for air sports aviators.

  • BlipMap by Dr. Jack
    Hits: 3093

    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.

  • Colorado AWOS
    Hits: 2405

    Colorado automated weather observation systems.

  • Current Niwot Ridge Meteorological Data
    Hits: 2055

    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.

  • Denver NexRad
    Hits: 4835

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

  • GOES East Water Vapor Loop
    Hits: 2166

    BC's favorite link.

  • National Wind Technology Center
    Hits: 2125

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

  • NCAR Foothills Lab Web Cam
    Hits: 1750

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

  • Surface Chart USA
    Hits: 3422

     For continental United States.

  • Weather Channel Boulder Weather
    Hits: 4850

    Weather Channel forecast.     

  • WunderMap
    Hits: 1975

     Weather Underground interactive weather site. 

  • Colorado BlipMap Univiewer (New)
    Hits: 1686

     New model hosted by Dave Leonard. Dave says "I think the new model is maybe more accurate than the old, but its still at the mercy of the NWS initialization data, like the old one. Sometimes its incredible, others its just plain wrong. I'm not sure if its better or worse than Skysight as far as accuracy goes. They use different initialization data sets. Skysight has a far slicker interface like, you might hope for from a paid professional software team." 

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