I agree, usairnet.com is also a great one to give a good overall picture on one page. Usairnet.com and windy.com are the two sites I use almost exclusively.
I agree, usairnet.com is also a great one to give a good overall picture on one page. Usairnet.com and windy.com are the two sites I use almost exclusively.
Jim Ott
Portland, OR
Kitfox SS7 flying
Rotax 912ULS
I did not know about windy.com - great information
One I find myself using on my desktop on occasion is Skyvector
https://skyvector.com/
A person can hover over any reporting station to get the TAF or SA; expands/contracts map with the mouse wheel, if a person looks at "Layers" you can overlay the radar weather; fuel prices, TFRs, "drotams" (Drone Notams) and a lot of other stuff from the same screen. The background I use is the VFR sectional map but you can get lo enroute, enroute,world map etc also. So you get current weather chart data all on one screen plus some FBO info.
Only weak spot for my use is forecasts beyond the TAFs
Dave S
Kitfox 7 Trigear (Flying since 2009)
912ULS Warp Drive
St Paul, MN
I have to agree. I use this site often.
http://www.usairnet.com/cgi-bin/launch/code.cgi
One of the really great things about Windy.com is that you can click your cursor on any spot in the country and it will interpolate the data from the nearest weather stations and give you the information for that spot. It may be in the boonies hundreds of miles from an airport or official station.
Jim Ott
Portland, OR
Kitfox SS7 flying
Rotax 912ULS
Windy is another one to add to our phones, I also use weather bug, the more info the better.
Another that I use on my iPhone is "AeroWeather". It gives your selected FAA reporting station (airports) information in coded and de-coded (translated to English) versions of the current and TAFs and what ever else is available from the airports.
I also rely a lot on the SkewT plots from your local balloon (2x daily at 0000Z and 1200Z). Great for thermal prediction (stability), cloud tops, shear layers, freezing levels etc.
https://twister.asc.ohio-state.edu/upper/skew-t/KALB
In additional to USAIRNET I also often use www.wunderground.com for local condition and nearest metar.
WX prediction tools sure have gotten a ton better in the last 10-15 years.