Los Angeles Weather

The links on this page are intended to make it easy for persons in the Los Angeles area, especially mariners, to investigate weather issues. Because there are so many weather links, often with duplicate information, I decided to summarize the ones I found useful in a fashion that made it easier to keep track of them.

LA Forecasts

General

• Los Angeles forecasts from NBC's Intellicast. This is a very user-friendly page, with good summaries as well as links to regional radar and satellite images.
• An all-caps ASCII forecast for the major zones in California, from the National Weather Service. This isn't very convenient, but it's the best I've found at the moment.
• A Southern California weather site with some live surf pictures.

Marine

• The Rutgers University Marine Remote Sensing service, with all sorts of interesting stuff.

Raw LA Data

Marine

• An interactive interface to observations from buoys in Southern California waters.
  • Buoy 46053, in the Ventura Channel just north of Santa Cruz Island.
  • Buoy 46054, in the Santa Barbara Channel just north of Santa Rosa Island.
  • Buoy 46063, just east of Santa Rosa Island.
  • Buoy 46045, just off Palos Verdes.
  • Buoy 46025, about 40 miles due west of Palos Verdes.
• An ASCII table of observations from Southern California coastal weather stations.
• Marine charts in TIFF format from the National Weather Service.
• A very quick-loading satellite image from CNN, updated every hour.
• A quick-loading radar image from CNN, updated every hour.
• Marine observations for the California coast, from Oceanweather, Inc. .

Useful Non-Weather Data Servers

• NOAA's Tide and Tidal Current Predictor, which gives the next four days of tides.
  • The prediction for Los Angeles.
• A Sunrise/Sunset predictor. The interface is moderately clumsy, but acceptable.

USA Weather

• Links to Marine Forecasts and Observations for the entire country.
• The University of Hawaii's Meteorology page, with links for Hawaiian and mainland weather information.
• Various links to Weather Forecasting Sites from Sailboats, Inc.
• The home page for the National Weather Service. Straight from the horse's mouth.
  • An embarrassment of riches: facsimile charts from the National Weather Service.
  • Pacific Ocean facsimile charts from the National Weather Service's Honolulu office.
• NOAA's main weather page, again with an embarrassment of riches.
• NOAA's oceans and estuaries page.
• Useful open-ocean data from Oceanweather, Inc..
• An interactive form for requesting weather forecasts from NOAA.
• The National Science Foundation's Unidata earth information server. Full of interesting stuff.
• The University of Maryland's very useful Earthcast service, with up to 7-day forecasts, movies, and even tomorrow's predicted satellite image.
• The University of Michigan's WeatherNet, with gobs of links to other weather information.
• The so-called Weather Information Superhighway from the National Weather Service, again with so many links it's hard to make sense of them.
• The home page for EarthWatch Communications, Inc., which provides some really neat 3D cloud animations.
• A really slick interface to marine observations from ocean buoys in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
• The SailNet Weather Page, with things that seem to duplicate other links.
• Weather resources from the University of Illinois, largely duplicating previous links.
• A collection of links to commercial weather pages, maintained by NOAA.
• A collection of links to other weather pages, maintained by NOAA.
• The U.S. Coast Guard's main page. You can use this to find out things like voice weather broadcast schedules.
• A useful weather resource page with lots of learning links (aimed at children, but still useful).
• A very helpful tornado information page suggested by a sixth-grader named Aiden.

Geoff Kuenning's home page.

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