SVS has its own weather station on site at Rockfish Gliderport

Although we can't control the weather, we now have a much better understanding of what is happening at our Gliderport!  You can watch the weather at Rockfish Gliderport using our new WeatherFlow Tempest wireless weather Station.  The data view displayed below is the "Grid" view - you can choose other views by selecting the icons across the top, the cloud icon in the light blue bar, or any of the weather grid items to see trend graphs.  

Also, you can check this from your smart phone (even as you prepare to enter the pattern!) at this link: tempestwx.com/station/26407/grid.

 Soaring Weather resources

• Rockfish Gliderport has its own weather station here:  https://tempestwx.com/station/26407 
• Our weather station is also part of the Wunderground network! https://www.wunderground.com/dashboard/pws/KVANELLY28
• Very useful soaring info from Dr. Jack
  • RUC model based Northeast BLIPMAP thermal updraft forecasts from Dr. Jack. 
  • Full selection of Northeast region
    • ​ RUC based BLIPMAPs or NAM based BLIPMAPS (further into the future).
    • Dr. Jack "Blipspots" 

 

• ​​Good general info:
  • Good overviews of the weather at the Weather Channel
  • An aviation focused weather summary at Air Sports Net

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• The serious weather data:
  •  NOAA has a variety of weather products.  
    • Skew T/Log P plots are under "sounding".
    • Unisys
    • Yesterday's thermal updraft velocity map from Dr. Jack (based on RUC model)​       

Is there Wave?  
See the satellite imagery for indications of wave activity:
http://www.usairnet.com/cgi-bin/satellite/view.cgi?v=1&m=1&c=1&l=6&r=59&z=1&o=59