Weather

Weather

See our Weather page for a real-time aggregate of the best items listed below. 

• The Weather Channel provides local weather information for over 70,000 cities using high capacity web sites and other data distribution methods such as pagers and push channels.


• U.S. Dept. of Commerce/NOAA/NOS/CO-OPS's Infohub provides a snapshot of current meteorological observations (prevailing wind, wind gusts, and wind direction), water level, and current (speed, direction) in tabular form.


• NOAA's Current Weather Conditions San Francisco, San Francisco International Airport.


• SFGate.com's animated 3-D fog forecast for the Bay Area


• NOAA's National Data Buoy Center, in particular, the San Francisco Buoy (46026).

• National Weather Service Forecast Office for San Francisco Bay Area/Monterey.
• Accuweather is the source of weather maps used by the Associated Press. It provides a 15-day local forecast (enter your ZIP code) and link to the local radar display.


• Accuweather's Sausalito fifteen-day forecast including a link to local radar image.


• Bay Area radar image.


• National Weather Service provides direct access to U.S. official weather forecast products and observations.


• NOAA's Weather Link Page.


• The Weather Channel provides local weather information for over 70,000 cities using high capacity web sites and other data distribution methods, such as pagers and push channels.


• Weather Underground includes a Marine Forecast after you select a particular area.


• Rain or Shine provides the usual forecast, but what sets this site apart is its connection with the Old Farmer's Almanac.


• Weather Bug The only source for live neighborhood weather on your PC desktop direct from WorldWide School Weather Network, part of the world's largest automated real-time weather network.


• Intellicast's ten-day San Francisco Weather Forecast

Wind

Wind

• USGS's SFPORTS: San Francisco Bay Wind Patterns is a map of wind vectors. Click on a point to load current wind speed and direction for that point.



• USGS's Streakline animated version of San Francisco Bay Wind Patterns. (Requires a Java-enabled browser).



• The Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO_OPS)'s San Francisco Bay PORTS text screen tabulates current tides, currents, wind speed and direction, and more (updated periodically).

Tides

Tides

• USGS's SFPORTS raw data page tabulates current tides, currents, wind speed and direction, and more (updated every six minutes).


• The Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO_OPS)'s San Francisco Bay PORTS text screen tabulates current tides, currents, wind speed and direction, and more (updated periodically).


• MarineWeather.com's Daily Tide and Current Predictions opening page.


• Tide Tool is freeware tide computation software for the PalmPilot. XTide, a powerful Unix-based tide program, is the basis for Tide Tool. XTide has also been ported to Windows, OS/2, and the Mac.


• KPIX's three-month tide table 

Bay Currents

• USGS's SPORTS's Near Real Time Current Velocity Maps covers the Bay in these areas: South San Francisco Bay, Central Bay, San Pablo Bay, and Suisun Bay.


• USGS's SFPORTS raw data page tabulates current tides, currents, wind speed and direction, and more (updated every six minutes).


• Tabular form of Golden Gate currents for over 24 hours.


• The Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO_OPS)'s San Francisco Bay PORTS text screen tabulates current tides, currents, wind speed and direction, and more (updated periodically).

Swells

• U.S. Navy's unclassified Wave Model (WAM) Forecasts.


• Buoy 59 (useful for learning about swells heading our way).

Coast Guard

U.S. Coast Guard-related sites

• U.S. Coast Guard home page.


• U.S. Coast Guard 11 th District, which covers the West coast from the California-Oregon border down to Mexico-Guatamala border out around half-way to the Hawaiian Islands.


• Coast Guard Auxiliary's home page includes links to other regional and local sites, boating safety education information, and the like.


• U.S. Coast Guard's Group San Francisco serves the SF Bay Area, including Monterey Bay, Bodega Bay and Lake Tahoe.


• U.S. Coast Guard's Air Station San Francisco provides aircraft response for the Group San Francisco area of responsibility.


• U.S. Coast Guard's Marine Safety Office San Francisco handles pollution response in Northern California.


• U.S. Coast Guard's Vessel Traffic Service coordinates shipping traffic throughout the entire San Francisco Bay waterway system, including Sacramento and Stockton.


• U.S. Coast Guard's Federal Requirements and Safety Tips publication. (A sample float plan can be printed from this site.)
• Coast Guard Day E-Card page. Send an animated card celebrating the Coast Guard.

Search and Rescue

• COSPAS-SARSAT disseminates EPIRB information.


• NOAA's SARSAT site provides 406 MHz EPIRB registration forms here

Bay Area

Bay Area (Local) Links

• The Armchair Sailor store offers nautical books, periodicals, worldwide charts and related items of interest to mariners.


• SF Sailing Links


• Small Boat Racing Association of Northern California (SBRA)


• SF Sailing


• Singlehanded Sailing Society.


• SF Boating


• Latitude 38


• The Sailing Index

Web Cams

• Don Strickler and Associates' WebMarin site displays a live image of the San Francisco skyline updated every 2 minutes during daylight hours. The view is from Sausalito in Marin County, California, the area anchoring the north end of the Golden Gate Bridge.


• KPIX has many Bay Area Cams.


• Sybase's Web Cam page shows a current view of San Francisco Bay taken from Sybase's world headquarters in Emeryville, California.


• Fisherman's Wharf Cam

Knots

Knots

• Knots on the Web is divided into the sections: Knot Tying, Knot Theory, Knot Art, Knot Software, Knot Books, and a Knot Gallery.


• Here are two "scout" sites where you can learn how to tie knots using animated GIFs:
  • www.mistral.co.uk/42brghtn/knots/42ktmenu.html
  • www.troop9.org/knots.html

Misc

Miscellaneous