Weather Sites for SF Bay Area

Local Radar Images

• Radar from NOAA
• Resolution: 1 KM from Intellicast
• Southwest U.S. Regional Doppler Radar from the Weather Channel
• Jet Stream location (useful for interpreting storm tracks)

Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) collection of links

The Weather Channel

BayArea Weather (from San Jose Mercury News)

Intellicast: San Francisco, CA Forecast by Intellicast.com

National Weather Service/NOAA

• NWS San Francisco Bay Area
• Satellite Image: GOES 9: Western US, Infrared (GOES: Geostationary Orbital Environmental Satellite)
• 8-14 day forecasts
• SF Bay/Monterey Office : especially for tides and surf warnings
• NWS Headquarters
• Big List of NWS Web Sites
• National Weather Service home page
• Weekly Weather Threats forecast (updated on Tuesdays)

Misc Weather Services

• Links for SF Bay Climatological Info and Forecasts
• AccuWeather Excellent radar imagery. Streaming video weather feature. Includes downloadable forecasts for PDAs.
• IntelliCast
• Weather Bug from Automated Weather Service
• Earth Watch good imagery, questionable forecasts
• The Weather Channel
• CNN basic coverage
• Weather Underground repackaging of NWS product plus almanac and some historical annotation. Spinoff of the Meteorology Dept of the University of Michigan.
• Yahoo's Weather page
• List of SF Bay area sites from KPIX InstaWeather
• MASTEP from KNTV
• Weather application for PalmOS
• AccuWeather: see RealFeel(tm) for their version of wind-chill and heat-index. Also has decent collection of weather-related products.

US Geological Survey (USGS)

• News and Information on El Niño

Western Disaster Center

• Weather History for San Jose area

Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center of the US Navy

• Satellite Image of Eastern Pacific Ocean (for approaching storms)
  Also available from the main frame as Products: Satellite + Eastern Pacific Ocean: Infrared

WeatherNet

(Weather) - ECHO - Environmental Conservation Hotlinks - (Information Center for the Environment - ICE) from UC Davis

Weather Phenomena

• Von Karmen Vortices (gif)
• Hurrican info

Ocean: Tides and Waves

• Tides for SF Bay area (no other listing for Central CA)
• Plot of wave heights for the northern Pacific from the Scripps Ocean Institute

Weather Instrument: sources

• Edmund Scientific, (800) 728-6999
• Northeast Discount Weather Catalog, (781) 331-3795
• Weather Affects, (800) 317-3666
• Wind & Weather, (800) 922-9463
• Oregon Scientific
• Weathershop
• How the Weather Works
• Weatherwise Magazine
• Nielsen-Kellerman: cited in reviews: Kestrel 3000, about $150
• Brunton: cited in reviews: Sherpa
• Davis Instruments: cited in reviews: Vantage Pro (full-featured weather station): $500 + $100 for wireless