Weather To Fly

There are more weather resources available than most people can absorb. The intent of this page is to provide a partial list of some sites providing information on the Greater Seattle area, and around the flying sites listed elsewhere on these web pages.

• Lake Union rowing crew has a great webcam and weather page.
• Lake Sammamish has a webcam for north and south ends of the lake.
• The Lake WA Yacht Club has a weather page showing winds at the 520 bridge
• Intellicast has Winds, Radar, and Surrace Observations for the entire country (samples below)
• MM5 Weather and Matt Amend's Guide to Using MM5 (PDF)
• NOAA for Seattle - http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/mesonet/getobext.php?wfo=sew&sid=RNT&num=48
• Outside Connection - www.outsideconnection.com
• Satellite of WA - www.wsdot.wa.gov/traffic/forecast/satellite.aspx
• Jetstream for WA - squall.sfsu.edu/gif/jetstream_pac_init_00.gif
• I-90 Corridor - www.atmos.washington.edu/maciver/roadview/i90/index.htm
• National Weather Service, Surface Observations
  • Index - http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/mesowest/index.php?
  • Northwest region - http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/mesowest/mwmap.php?map=nw&limit=1
  • Greater Seattle - http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/mesowest/mwmap.php?map=sew&limit=1