Links

Surf Forecast Information

• Nathan Cool's detailed wavecast forecast
• Surfline (southern california) - (ocean beach)
• tides / sunrise & sunset
• Windy

Hurricanes

• tropical climate prediction center - climate overview and outlook
• hurricane center - east pac overview
• tropical pacific update (8 - band) (useful for analysis of active hurricanes)

Weather Reports

• Ocean Beach Speed Shop
• NOAA ocean beach 2 day weather grid
• NOAA ocean beach 7 day weather forecast
• San Diego area forcast discussion
• NOAA longterm weather forecasts organized by length of prediction

Weather Information Accessible via Shortwave

• WeFax
• wefax brief - northeast (winter) / southeast (summer) / central pacific
• support resources - wefax user guide / terminology and weather symbols / wefax wiki page
• SITOR
• Pt. Reyes
• high seas forecast for metarea XII
• Honolulu
• Various tropical advisories if they apply - sample
• Eastern North Pacific Tropical Weather Outlook
• East and Central North Pacific High Seas Forecast
• Voice - Pt. Reyes
• high seas forecast
• link to all area forecasts
• Other NOAA Text Forecasts
• Baja offshore waters forecast
• South hawaii high seas
• Peru high seas

Buoys

• point loma - summary / details
• other socal bouys (quick current status check)
• california buoy (24 hr forcast of north swells)
• se papa buoy (1.5 day forcast of north swells)

Models

• NCEP - grib  
• CDIP - Nowcast

Radar

• us doppler radar sites with current images

Maps

• bouyweather.com (baja)
• surface weather maps - pacific / western us / north america / world
• NOAA 24 hr pressure change chart
• 500 mb and surface images & loops w/ sat image background - current / archived
• 500 mb northern hemispheric wave loop

Other Links

• receiving weather fax info via ftp
• description of diurnal pressure variations
• understanding the basics of wave forecasting and prediction
• national weather service - jet stream weather classes