Skydivingweather.com

[LyraM45 0]

I was looking through old posts to see what happened to this website, but it looks like it is no more. I never saw an operational website, so I am not sure exactly what was offered.

I'm an Aviation Meteorologist as well as a jumper, so this sparks my interest. Does anybody else see the community getting use out of a similar website and/or services? I guess I should pose this question mostly to DZO's/managers/pilots who would be looking at and subscribing to all this information. The reason why I ask is, lets face it, the information is already scattered all over the web out there for upper air forecasts, model soundings, model ensembles, or just plain jane forecasts for the everyday person through NWS or wunderground.com, and people are capable of going online and piecing all of this information together themselves.

So, with that, I don't know if its worth it to start a similar service. Skydivingweather.com obviously didn't survive, so maybe its not worth that much to the community with everything else out there for people to use.

Any thoughts?

Apologies for the spelling (and grammar).... I got a B.S, not a B.A. :)

[tetra316 0]

A friend sent me this a link to this website. I think it works beatifully for our needs.

"It’s designed to give pilots, hang glider people, skydivers, etc the kind of detailed weather forecast we need. It is www.USAirnet.com. The forecast only goes out 2.5 days, but it breaks the forecast out into three-hour segments, which is great. But even better, it gives you the cloud base elevation, the sky coverage (clear, mostly cloudy etc.), chance of rain, amount of rain, temp, dew point, wind speed and direction, etc., etc. All in a very readable format.

So if you want to check this out, on the home page, click on “Aviation Forecast” on the left side. Then select the “Region” ( State ) and click “Go.” [Gotta click “Go,” and I always forget to.] Then select a “Location,” and click “Go” again."

[faulknerwn 38]

I used to love skydivingweather.com - wish it hadn't gone away. I would love to see a site which pulls in AWOS stuff from local airports, as well as the forecasted uppers. Then maybe tie in skydive midwest's spot calculator and you'd be beautiful..

[rdufokker 6]

For PGA golf tournaments and at some hoydy toydy golf clubs they have some type of weather service they use. I don't know if it is a pay for service or free. I know they can tell lightning strike distances and doppler winds as well as convective weather. I'll try to find out more.

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