NOAA Marine Buoys

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Forrest15112

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Catalina 30 Mandeville, La.
After the storm, you can go back on many of them and see the hourly measurements that may not have reported as the storm was on top of the buoy. I recall seeing where one reported wave heights of 65' in the Gulf of Mexico as Katrina or Rita passed over it.
 
Papa Bruce

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Dec 9, 2008
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Hunter 30 Lake Ontario/Fair Point Marina, NY
Thanks for the link! Heading out on the Salty Dawg Rally 11/4 from Hampton Roads... Hopefully. Looks like Barometric pressure on the rise everywhere south of there. Good news.
 
anchorclanker

anchorclanker

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May 27, 2012
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Oday 222 Beaver Lake, Arkansas
I have posted that link in other threads. It needs some kind of sticky, or perhaps a dedicated weather area within the site with stickies to links such as this that everyone can always find.
 
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anchorclanker

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May 27, 2012
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Oday 222 Beaver Lake, Arkansas
finding41 said:
I like the idea of a dedicated weather thread.
Maybe have navigation in the same area.
Here is a neat link. http://hint.fm/wind/
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That is a really neat site, thanks for sharing that.

Ive posted this before, but just to remind those who may not know about it, you can receive local real time weather from AWOS stations. AWOS are Automatic Weather Observation Stations that are primarily located at or near most municipal airports. Think of them as a resource similar to buoy data. Fully automated, they update every 60 seconds giving current time, wind speed and gusts, wind direction, air temperature, dewpoint, RH, sky conditions (overcast type and level of overcast including rain fog sleet snow.., and Barometer. NOAA gets data from all the AWOS, but only every 30 minutes.

A good website is AirNav ( http://www.airnav.com/ ), which lists all airports and the page for each airport gives a ton of information, including the phone number and radio freq for the AWOS. You can simply call the number and hear the current data via computer voice.
 
finding41

finding41

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Nov 23, 2011
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MacGregor 26D London Ontario Canada
Once again Canada doesn't exist. http://www.airnav.com/
I think we have something similar but am at a loss to find it.
I use Sailflow. It uses info from our airport which is at the south end of our lake. Funny thing is it is usually wrong! I can sit in the middle of the lake and see on my BB that there is 5 knots of wind just one mile south but none on the lake.
 
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