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Moriarty Weather Information

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The best and latest non-web source of how to interpret weather for soaring conditions is Tom Bradbury's Meteorology and Flight (3rd edition). One excellent part of Tom's book is near the end where he summarizes a list of weather features most favorable to thermal flying. To round his approach out, Dennis Pagen's Understand The Sky really adds a lot as it focuses on how to read terrain and conditions, and is thus more aimed at certain strategic/tactical actual flying.

At the bottom of this page also find links to weather archive sites. Use these sites if you want to study weather on a given day in the past for which you understand the soaring conditions that occurred on that day.

Web links:

(in approximate order of usefulness)

• BLIPMAP Univiewer
• MoriartyWeather underground
• Clines Corners, NM; Aviation Weather Nice layout of parameters that we need to know.
• RUC Soundings
  • Moriarty
  • Clines Corners
  • Chilili (east mountains)
  • Valencia (Rio Grande Valley)
  • Santa Fe (west of Sangres)
  • Las Vegas (east of Sangres)
  • Taos (west of Sangres)
  • Claunch
  • Lincoln Station
  • Carrizozo
  • Alamogordo
• Quick and easy satellite loop
• http://adds.aviationweather.gov/winds/ Winds aloft forecast in an easy to use interface.
• Moriarty DigiWx (often not operational)
• http://www.rap.ucar.edu/weather/
  
  • Very nice interface for forecasts with animations: dewpoint, winds, temperature, clouds. RUC, NAM, and GFS available
    
  • Up to 12 hour satellite loop
    
  • nice color scheme for 300mb upper air current conditions
    
• http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/
  nice surface forecast interface for short range data (day 0-3)
  also forecasts for surface days 3-7
  
• http://weather.unisys.com/gfsx/loop/gfsx_300_loop.html
  Interesting and educational website for watching various forecast animations of air at different levels including temperature, pressure and wind. NGM, NAM, and GFS available.
  
• NOAA Radar
• Ford thermal forecast
• One-click thermal forecast

Weather data archives

• http://data.nssl.noaa.gov
• http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/ncdc.html
• Unisys http://weather.unisys.com/archive/index.html

Informational

• Mountain Convergences
• lots of tidbits on weather

  Weather sites compiled by Brian Resor. Last updated on 5/16/08.