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What is your favorite online wind Source?
« on: February 28, 2015, 12:37:05 PM »
HI, I Just wanted to see what folks are using to read/forecast the wind.

I am using a combination of several tools, mainly swellinfo.com, NOAA, and wunderground.

Thanks in advance.
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Re: What is your favorite online wind Source?
« Reply #1 on: February 28, 2015, 12:58:23 PM »
http://www.windguru.cz/int/index.php?sc=309513

A kite/windsurf site, very accurate.  It's funny how the days they rate as good and bad are actually the inverse if applied for surf.

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Re: What is your favorite online wind Source?
« Reply #2 on: February 28, 2015, 01:28:56 PM »
Windalert.com.  For the breaks within short walking distance from the house, I looked out the windows to see which way the palm trees are blowing.  ;)
« Last Edit: February 28, 2015, 01:31:51 PM by RATbeachrider »

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Re: What is your favorite online wind Source?
« Reply #3 on: February 28, 2015, 01:57:41 PM »
I check our local Wunderground station every morning.  I like it because it keeps 12 hours of history.  That way, I can see how the wind has behaved all night and have a better idea of what conditions will be.
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Re: What is your favorite online wind Source?
« Reply #4 on: February 28, 2015, 02:04:58 PM »
In South Australia I use Seabreeze for wind and tides.  Swellnet for webcams over looking the surf.
Cant beat eyeballing it but at least you can get an idea about what wind is coming towards me by checking Seabreeze and seeing the wind direction and strength change as it moves across the city.
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Re: What is your favorite online wind Source?
« Reply #5 on: February 28, 2015, 02:14:23 PM »
Sailflow app and www.sailflow.com. It has been spot on for a bunch of different events I have done.  Even the 7 day forecast is pretty accurate.  Uses data from a bunch of different weather/wind stations too.
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Re: What is your favorite online wind Source?
« Reply #6 on: February 28, 2015, 02:35:38 PM »
ikitesurf.com

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Re: What is your favorite online wind Source?
« Reply #7 on: February 28, 2015, 03:37:38 PM »
I just checked windalert, ikitesurf and sailflow ... it appears that all three are one and the same! Same wind speed, wind gust, wind direction and same "rain" from between 3PM and 6PM (same graphics!).  What rain? I just got back from a long walk from the house down to King's Harbor and it was breezy, sunny and cool!

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Re: What is your favorite online wind Source?
« Reply #8 on: February 28, 2015, 04:31:22 PM »
It may look the same because you are looking at parsed data...but, there is a paid subscription to other anemometer data...

As an Oceanographer and long time surfer and windsurfer...just got done windSUP'n an hour ago...

http://blog.surfingsports.com/2015/02/hammer-windsup.html

I know that I was one of the very first of the early adopters of Jim Martin's Call of the Wind...COTW...paid wind data subscription service on a pager...remember them?...;-)

I know that I also gave him the idea...I used to work in instrumentation engineering...he was a home building contractor...been a subscriber for over 20 years...

The Ventura Harbormaster got tired of giving us sailors from Santa Barbara the wind readings...and we got tired of driving down to Ventura to stamp around the dirt parking lot...it was dirt back in the day...;-) or shlog everytime they reported 12 knots...;-)

Rod, Chang, Elliot, & Morgan might have had their pagers a day or so before Deb and myself...there weren't many...you could count them on one hand...

Our 2nd Moto pager has a 5/29/94 programming time stamp...but, we were paying subscribers to the call in Windtalker number before we bought our
pagers...and never gave out our access code like some of the cheap slackers did...;-)

http://www.surfingsports.com/images/call_of_the_wind.jpg

I changed EPROMS at Jalama and Isabella COTW sites several times...back in the day...prolly still have an original COTW tshirt and hat...;-)

I used to maintain the weather section of my surfingsports.com website...but, the links to parse the data change all of the time...and, I don't have the time to chase it...so, I end up with some dead links...but, there are still a number of good ones that still see significant traffic...

http://surfingsports.com/weather.asp

http://surfingsports.com/npac_surf_analysis.asp?
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Re: What is your favorite online wind Source?
« Reply #9 on: February 28, 2015, 05:24:11 PM »
Here in HK I use 3 sources to try to predict what is going to happen. The first is Windguru (which is not always accurate here), then a regional weather map, and finally the real time data from one of 20+ The Observatory has online. I'll choose the one depending on the wind. What is cool about this last one, is that you can click on the windspeed or direction and it will show the windspeed or direction at all locations in HK..
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Re: What is your favorite online wind Source?
« Reply #10 on: February 28, 2015, 06:21:10 PM »
I can vouch for windalert.com

if you are in Hawaii area, mksoaring.com

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Re: What is your favorite online wind Source?
« Reply #11 on: March 01, 2015, 04:09:50 AM »
Check out:
windfinder.com
sharkwind.com

and of course

National Data Buoy Center
ndbc.noaa.gov

33miles off of Santa Monica:
http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=46025

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Re: What is your favorite online wind Source?
« Reply #12 on: March 01, 2015, 06:26:03 AM »
windguru.com for forecasts, windalert.com (ikitesurf.com+...) for real time and NOAA when stuff gets real.
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Re: What is your favorite online wind Source?
« Reply #13 on: March 01, 2015, 08:36:43 AM »
iWindsurf & Windfinder work great here in New Jersey
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Re: What is your favorite online wind Source?
« Reply #14 on: March 01, 2015, 11:03:44 AM »
I use a bunch--windfinder, windguru, windalert, even the wind prediction on Surfline. On Maui the Maui2K Haleakela observatory data is good for the north shore. La Perouse Larry says it's not so great on the South Shore and his knowledge of south shore conditions is about as good as it gets, plus he has eyes on the water since he both lives there and works at various locations that tend to be ultra high end--which means shore views. When Larry says go, everyone hats up. So I guess that's my primary for the south shore.

For the North Shore, this is what I see when I turn around in my chair:

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