I have been in this tribe for a couple of days so I'll just start a topic.
I'm actually a meteorologist that works with private jets, so my question to the rest of you. Where do you get your weather? Do you do your own online? call somebody? Don't check the weather (shame on you)? And which sites do you use the most?
I'm actually a meteorologist that works with private jets, so my question to the rest of you. Where do you get your weather? Do you do your own online? call somebody? Don't check the weather (shame on you)? And which sites do you use the most?
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Re: Where do you get your weather?
Mon, September 18, 2006 - 1:57 PMerr...that should read "I've been in this tribe for a couple of days and haven't seen a new post yet, so I'll just start a topic" -
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Re: Where do you get your weather?
Mon, September 18, 2006 - 2:18 PMI get mine from ADDS Sasha..... and this tribe is dead most of the time. I have tried getting people to post, and even started my own Tribe for aircraft restoration and building..... not the place for avaition geeks I guess.....
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Mon, September 18, 2006 - 3:41 PMI use enflight .com, weather channel, and call flight service in that order. -
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Re: Where do you get your weather?
Mon, September 18, 2006 - 5:27 PMNice Ercoupe Vanslam... my Dad had one when I was in high school.... loved that little rig. Highly overlooked fun flying.... -
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Re: Where do you get your weather?
Wed, September 20, 2006 - 3:16 PMThanks. its a great plane and burns only 5 gallons an hour. Although most of the owners are over 60 they have great stories. But it goes to show how safe and easy to fly the plane is. I can't tell you how many own them as there first and last plane.
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Re: Where do you get your weather?
Mon, September 18, 2006 - 7:17 PMhere are my fave sites.... some are tailored to my WHP location.... and then a couple of calls to Flight service before I go...
adds.aviationweather.noaa.gov/
www.wrh.noaa.gov/
www.avweather.com/
www.anyawos.com/
www.weathermeister.com/free/
www.weather.com/weather/local/USCA0139
and the tropical one is fun for the hurricane watch...:
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Re: Where do you get your weather?
Tue, September 19, 2006 - 5:08 AMwow, glad I asked, I like that charlie's webpage. Especially the first graphic it's very easy on my bad eyesight (left my glasses at work last night)
Say it isn't so though...weather.com ouch -
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Re: Where do you get your weather?
Tue, September 19, 2006 - 5:15 AMOn second thought, I don't like that first graphic, I found a mistake already in the weather depiction...
An occluded front needs to have a warm and cold attached to it, I'll accept a station in stead of the warm front...but they're stationary front is detatched an a state away. Oops.
but if you read more about the web page, how sweet is that, they fly sick people to the best hospitals available. That is a nice service. I better not dog them too much. Although in their defense WSI made that graphic, not them.
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Unsu...
Re: Where do you get your weather?
Mon, September 18, 2006 - 7:36 PMCourse there is always this..... he he he
In response to how he checked the weather, "I just whip out my blue card with a hole in it and read what it says: 'When color of card matches color of sky, FLY!'"
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Re: Where do you get your weather?
Tue, September 19, 2006 - 5:16 AMI have a weather rock. It says:
If I'm...
wet it's raining.
white it's snowing.
moving an earthquake.
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Re: Where do you get your weather?
Tue, September 19, 2006 - 5:20 AMwww.met.tamu.edu/Weather_Interface/
I'll throw together some more of my links from work, but this is an oldie but goodie. If you know how to read raw metars, tafs, and pireps (which I hope you all do) this is the quick and dirty link. If you know to read model data it's here also along with forecast discussions. Anytime ADDs is down or our personal webpage at work I usually hop here first. They also have the latest TAFs and obs in before most other sites do. -
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Tue, September 19, 2006 - 10:02 AMoooh Sasha, this is a good one (www.met.tamu.edu/Weather_Interface/)
... thanks... it's also reassuring to know my rock works like yours does.... dependable little rascal.... -
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Re: Where do you get your weather?
Tue, September 19, 2006 - 1:16 PMI've actually got a lot of really good websites, but since they're bookmarked at work I'll have to wait til tomorrow to post them.
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Unsu...
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Wed, September 20, 2006 - 3:32 PM
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Re: Where do you get your weather?
Tue, March 6, 2007 - 1:56 AMI use aviationweather.gov extensevely. That's how I get a pretty good overview. METAR's and TAF's and such. Plus it has sattelite and radar imagery, and since you're a meteorologist, when you see fronts moving through you can kind of predict where and whithin how much time they'll hit. Also with that tool you can see the gaps in them and wait for them to appear overhead and get up for a little work. FSS is helpful, but I swear that since they have been privatized they have gotten worse. Even when they were government operated I have had some pretty major discrepancies with what they told me and what I encountered. That's why you always go for the PIREP's nothing beats the naked eye. I hear DUATS is good, but is slightly a pain in the ass. The best in my opinion is asking the guy who just got back on the ground. -
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Tue, March 27, 2007 - 9:09 PMI'm with you (both with regard to aviationweather.gov and asking the pilot who just landed). But, there are only a couple of actual LEGAL weather sources (which are DUATS and DUAT, and the Jeppesen wx center...maybe a few others by now). Even some of the NOAA aviation stuff isn't considered *completely* legal by the FAA....and mind you, this has nothing whatsoever to do with the data itself, but with the computers which store it. For wx data to be accurate, it has to be updated constantly, so that anytime you access it, you are guaranteed to be receiving the most current weather. Not all of the other services guarantee their data to be the latest reports (meaning the computers the data is housed on isn't being monitored in such a way that anyone could guarantee you're pulling the most recent report). I've actually found most of them to be very accurate and current (by checking them against DUATS). But, if you were to push the FAA on it, or if you ever were to have an incident....guess who's going to check where you got your weather?!?!?! Anyway, using aviationweather.gov and the like is probably just fine, but if you're doing any heavy IFR or any commerical operation (particularly for us CFIs), a DUATS report is really the way to go.
Sorry.....I know they're a pain in the &^%$. But, they're legal and complete.
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Re: Where do you get your weather?
Wed, September 26, 2007 - 11:24 AMThe flying I do, is inherently related to meterology, and usually we have our own meterologists, and even sometimes PhD level scientists involved too. Sometimes the client may have a meterologist of their own too.
Although sometimes these high level scientists, when replying to a question about the weather, are more apt to bring up pages and pages of satellite imagery, IR, water vapor, skew t, etc etc etc * 100, rather than just stick their head out and take a look.
