WEATHER LINKS

BLIPMAPS - Dr. Jack's graphical soaring weather forecast site.

NOAA/ARL Mixed Boundary Layer Forecast - Great site for sounding and other info. The Interactive Map product page allows you to generate a graphical map of boundary layer convective depth using RUC or other models. Directions and link courtsey of Jonathan Gere.

FSL SOUNDINGS - This page allows you to get MAPS (FSL 20-km RUC), RUC(NCEP 20-km RUC), Profiler, RAOB, or ACARS soundings, either as a java-based plots, or as text. FSL HOME.

NWS - Aviation Weather Center (ADDS) - text, digital and graphical forecasts, analyses, and observations of aviation-related weather variables.

NWS - National Weather Service Graphical interface to all types of regional data.

INTELLICAST - Surface Analysis and other general weather information.

UNIVERSITY MICHIGAN (UM) - "Provides access to thousands of forecasts, images, and the Net's largest collection of weather links, UM Weather is the most comprehensive and up-to-date source of weather data on the Web."

WEATHER ARTICLES

THERMAL SOARING FORECASTING - Richard Kellerman's presentation at the 2004 PGC XC Seminar presents an excellent review and explanation of forecasting models, techniques, tips and tricks. Essential reading for the XC Soaring Pilot

A MET GUIDE FOR BEGINNERS - Wonderful Tom Bradburry Article from Sailplane and Gliding. (Via Bowland Forest Gliding Club.)

XC LIFT SOURCES - Ken Kochanski's presentation at the 2004 PGC XC Seminar that looks at lift sources typically used for XC flight. It also explores current views on topics and techniques useful to maximize XC speeds