Weather, Oceanography, & Related Information

Observations
*   Radar Sites
      • NWS  - zoom in capabilities
      • Intellicast  - zoom in capabilities
      • Eastern Gulf of Mexico, Cuba, Florida & its Coastline   - Animated Loop
*   Select Satellite links
      • US Visible via GOES
      • US IR via GOES
*   Sea States (wave height & direction)
      • Western Atlantic & Carribean Wave HT & Wind Speed 180hr Animation
      • 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
      • 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, ..
      • Current Position of Midnight     Where in the World is Tomorrow Now?
      • Solar System Live Current Position of Planets, ...
*   Tide and Current Predictor
      • Tide and Current Prediction
*   Compute Variation
      • Variation Compution by Lat/Long
*   Compute Distance between Two Lat/Longs
      some include course calculation, ...
      Site #1 has a downloadable offline usable program
      • Compute the distance between two Lat/Long pairs, Site #1
      • Compute the distance between two Lat/Long pairs, Site #2
*   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


Excellent Cumulative, In Depth, Dedicated, Comprehensive Data
      • Passage Weather - Worldwide   Weather Forecasts for Sailors, A multitude of data

      • Crown Weather - Us Wx   NWS, Temps, Maps, Sat Images, Radars, Storm & Hydrometeorological Predictions, ...
      • Crown Weather - Florida Wx   NWS, Web Cams, Marine Obs, Temps, Maps, Sat Images, Radars, ...
      • Crown Weather - Tropical Information   Valuable, Extensive data during Hurricane Season, ...
      • Crown Weather - Tropical Wx Discussion   Written, Verbal Discussion of current storms, ...

      • College of DuPage   Next Generation Weather Lab
      • College of DuPage Wx Links   Links to other interesting Wx web sites

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 Cell Phone site   A multitude of wx data small sized to fit a cell phone screen

Dedicated Extensive Canadian Weater
      • Current Conditions and Forecasts   Starting Point enabling investigation of this great Canadian Wx website

Eclipses (servers are sometimes unavailable)
      • Next Upcoming US Total Solar Eclipse - Others (Types, and Locations) available
      • Solar Eclipses for your specific location


Notes:
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