Aviation Weather - NWS aviation weather home page

Aviation Digital Data Service - Charts, images, Java tools

Santa Clara County - Observations and forecast

Bay Area Aviation - Forecasts, METARs, Prog Charts, etc.

Standard Weather Briefing - Standard FAA weather services

Experimental Weather Products

Aviation Weather Services - Advisory Circular 00-45E

METARs & TAFs

          Java Tool - Excellect Java-based access

          Text - Text-based access

          FTP - FTP-based TAF access (link is an example for SFO)

          Decoded METARs - METARs in plain English

          TAF Decoder - Excellent reference

          METAR & TAF Decoder - Format and abbreviations

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Reference

          Acronym Glossary

          AIM - Chapter 7 - Section 1 has extensive information on weather

          AWOS/ASOS - FAA information on automated weather sensors

          Contractions - Used in NWS text weather products - very extensive (pdf)

          Dictionary - Comprehensive list of weather terms

          FAs Explained - Good concise explanation of Area Forecasts

          METAR - Decoder from AOPA

          METAR - Short course from the FAA (pdf)

          METAR - Description from Wunderground

          METAR Creation - Everything you've always wanted to know about creating a METAR

          METAR RMKs - How to decode the RMKs section

          METAR/TAF - Everything you've always wanted to know about METARs and TAFs, from NOAA

          NOTAM Contractions - From the FAA

          NOTAM Contractions - Another source

          Precipitation Areas and Symbols - From the Hydrometeorological Prediction Center (HPC)

          Pressure vs Alt - How to covert

          Prog Charts - Information on Low Level SIGW Prog Charts

          Surface Front Symbols and Codes - From the Hydrometeorological Prediction Center (HPC)

          TAF Decoder - From NOAA

          Weather Symbols - From the Aviation Digital Data Service (ADDS)

Oakland Flight Service Station

          Briefings - How to obtain a good weather briefing

          Pilot's Guide - General local communication and airspace info

DUATS - Standard, official, weather briefings

AOPA - Weather Graphics

Sunrise and sunset times - Includes background info included sunrise/sunset definitions

Chesapeake Aviation Training - A great set of weather links

Paul's Bay Area Weather Page

Coast Guard - Recommendations on how to get an Internet weather briefing

FAA Weather Quick Reference - From Ryan Ferguson (CFI)

How Weather Works - From USA Today - great site

Upper Air Meteorology: An Introduction

College of DuPage - Illinois community college with some excellent weather products

Local Forecasts

          Intellicast

          KPIX

          KRON

          Unisys

          Weather Channel

          Wunderground

Unisys Weather - When you're serious about getting the raw weather data

          Current SFO Meteogram - What is it?

          Current Oakland Skew T (text)- What is it? (another explanation, one more)

Generate Soundings - Java based sounding plots

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Hamcam - From Mt. Hamilton - Overlooks KRHV, good for checking conditions below 4000' MSL

SJSU - From San Jose State Univeristy Meteorology Department

Santa Cruz Harbor - Good for checking what's on the coast and headed toward the Bay

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