Aviation Weather

It's hard to find a pilot who's not also somewhat of a weather geek. There's good reasons for this. While pilot's may be naturally curious about things in general, weather is one that can make things difficult or maybe kill you. Since this is considered a poor outcome for a flight, we like to look at and understand weather.

ADDS - Prognotic Chart ADDS - Wind/800Mb/6000' ADDS - Wind/900Mb/3000' ADDS - Wind/Surface AOPA - Radar Summary AOPA - Surface Chart (12 Hour) AOPA - Surface Chart (current) AOPA - Weather Depiction NOAA - Storm Prediction Center NWS - Convective Sigmets Lifted Index NOAA - Lifted Index Unisys - Lifted Index GOES Skew-T Sounding Plots (look for K.I. in Skew-T plot for K-index) NWS - Low Level SIGWX Progs NWS - Current Icing Potential	High Level First Check Check these in sequence. When done, get the full DUATS report. Notes: You'll need to be an AOPA member and logged in to use those charts. You just have to log in once. The browser should hold on to a 'cookie' once you've been in. Unless you clear these, it shouldn't be a future problem. It may be overkill to look at things like composite moisture stability and lifted index charts. BUT, they're actually very telling. The problem is finding information on how to easily interpret them. K and Lifted Index Interpretation Charts Info on other Skew-T Parameters Short Course on Interpreting Sounding Plots
Additional Weather Sites
USNO Sunrise/Sunset Times ADDS - Aviation Digital Data Service Homepage INTELLICAST Interactive Weather Information Network	EarthWatch Communications, Inc. - Welcome NOAA - National Weather Service NWS Internet Weather Source The Weather Underground

Weather Tools & Education
FSS Direct Telephone Numbers	Direct dial numbers for Flight Service Stations. May be useful in places where cell phone users are automatically shunted to home area code FSS rather than the local one they'd prefer.
Pilot My-Cast	Selected pilot weather available on Java and Get-It-Now/BREW enabled cell phones. Includes METARs, TAF, various radar and graphical products.
The Online weather ground school
NWS New York Metro Area

Home Page | Contact