Weather, Oceanography, & Related Information

Observations
*   Radar Sites
      • NWS  - zoom in capabilities
      • Intellicast  - zoom in capabilities
      • 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)
      • Global Wave HT & Wind Speed 180hr Animation - Select Region Desired
      • Wave Heights - 00 to 144 hours out
*   Moored Buoy & C-Man Station(s)
      • Florida
      • Southeast
*   Surf Cams (conditions near shore and some inlets)
      • Florida
      • Limited Worldwide
*   Gulf Stream (servers are sometimes unavailable)
      • Overall View (Click to enlarge, plus Many other options available)
      • Current Position with velocities for last 4wks plus - Sometimes N/A
      • Animated views of above link - Sometimes N/A
*   Sea Surface Temperature
      • Worldwide
*   Surface Analysis
      • Contintntal US
      • NW ATLANTIC (Boston)
      • NE PACIFIC (Pt. Reyes)
      • GULF of MEXICO, CARIBBEAN, TROP ATL, and TROP EAST PACIFIC
      • ALASKA and NORTH PACIFIC (Kodiak)
      • HAWAII, CENTRAL PACIFIC, and TROPICAL NE PACIFIC (Honolulu)

Tools
*   Astronomical Data
      • Sunrise, Sunset, Moon ..., Venus, ..
      • Solar System Live Current Position of Planets, ...
      • View from the Sun Many User Selectable Views and Perspective's available
*   Tide and Current Predictor
      • Tide and Current Prediction
*   Compute Variation
      • Variation Compution by Lat/Long
*   Reference
      • Wind Chill & Heat Index Charts
      • Water Survival (Hypothermia) Chart
      • Trigonometry Tables
      • Common Conversion Units

Various NOAA Products
      • NOAA Home Page
      • Weather Page
      • Marine and Coastal Weather
      • Ocean Page
      • Satellite Information and Products
      • Hydrometeorological Prediction Center   Future Surface Analysis Charts
      • Charting and Navigation
      • Aviation Wx   For those that need, know, how to use - invaluable
      • Hurricane Season Occurence Image   Typically August, September, and October
            Pretty much guaranteed somewhere over Labor Day Weekend!
      • Tropical Cyclone Climatology   Everything you may want to know about the
            where and when
      • Hurricane Predictions vs Occurance Image   Accuracy of predictions not good since
            1995 and starts major departure (2004) prior to Hurricane Charley
            ZRD contends that historical data is not 100% applicable - a new normal

Excellent Cumulative, In Depth, Dedicated, Comprehensive Data
      • Passage Weather - Worldwide   Weather Forecasts for Sailors, A multitude of data
      • Crown Weather   Set to home page. Has top pull-down menu for links to Tropical, National, Southern, and New England Wx.
      • College of DuPage   Next Generation Weather Lab

Good Web Sites
      • Intellicast.com   A Very good overall Wx site
            • Mixed Surface Analysis   From above - Animated frontal and pressure positions, satellite infrared (IR) cloud cover, and areas of precipitation
      • Interactive Wx map   Combined Interactive version from weather.com
      • Great Smart Phone Website   A multitude of wx data small sized to fit a cell phone screen

Extensive Wx by Location
      • Extensive Conditions and Forecasts for Canada   Starting Point enabling investigation of this great Canadian Wx website
      • Extensive Conditions and Forecasts for NE US   Dedicated wx for NE US
      • Extensive Conditions and Forecasts for Alaska   Dedicated wx for Alaska

Not Wx, But Extremely Useful
      • Interstate 95 Road Conditions Florida to Maine - Graphical and Text presentations. You may zoom + and - to detail desired.
      • Central and South Florida Real Time Road Conditions - All of Florida South of Daytona to Key West - Graphical presentation plus Live Traffic Cameras.

Eclipses (servers are sometimes unavailable)
      • Next Upcoming US Total Solar Eclipse - Others (Types, and Locations) available
      • Solar Eclipses for your specific location
      • Image of 21st century North American eclipses   Includes close-up of SE US

Notes:
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