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Welcome to the avalanche.org wx page!

(Your "Nothing Fancy" Wx Data Web Site)

UPDATED May 25, 2005
Weather you ready for weather...weather is always ready for you. This page is designed as a "No Glitz" weather resource page. Weather products pointing towards Alaska, the Western US, and Canada. CURRENT weather products.

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Satellite Images

A good satellite image is like finding the perfect untracked run of powder, and as you look down the slope...you have no idea which way to go. Each image has different resolution. The infrareds all have different meanings, depending on how the raw data is massaged by the folks running the servers. The National Weather Service in SLC has done an outstanding with Java programming on movies and keeping images updated.

1 KM Resolution Visible Pics...Good only during daylight hours.

4 KM Satellite Enhanced Products


MPEG & JAVA Movies

GOES10 Images

  • Pacific IR View~Very popular view these days.(400K)
  • Visible Image~ONLY daylight hours PST. GOOD for western Canada.(300K)
  • GOES 10 CANADA~FINALLY, some timely www products for you folks! MPEG movies included.

    • Regional Radar

    Straight forward, general, broad-brush view of radar echoes. The "R of R" (Rules of Radar) are:
    1.) The Giant Red echoes just to the west or north of you will split and go around you, or just disappear...right after you post an avalanche warning, close something down, or call a no fly day.
    2.) The Light Green echo over your location will continue to produce 5-8cm of snow an hour indefinitely...right after you've made the plan for the day based on the Wx forecasts you have received that the storm was over. ;-)

    Latest Image

    Radar Loops

     

    NEXRAD (Doppler Radar)

    After a few years of waiting for closer to real time NEXRAD products, it seems like there here! 
    The Base Reflectivity products below are produced by NOAA.  The Storm Radial Velocity images takes you to the Intellecast website.
    It is important to read the product type on each image before getting too excited about what you're viewing. Not all NEXRAD products are available. Product type is determined by the user of the system at the location listed. To read about NEXRAD product types; Click here.

     

    Maps N' Models

    Here's a good selection of how the numbers look after they've been crunched. Many of the products are now animated with Java Scripts. You need Netscape 3.0 or better. MS Explorer 4.0 will work as well. Most of these links go right to the products, so you'll need to browse the sight you end up looking at to get a description of what the all the fancy graphics define.

    TECHNICAL STUFF

    Text N' Data Files

    What can we say...There is so many places to find NOAA text and raw data files out there that here's a couple of starting points.

    Disclaimer 

    Any resemblance between the above views and those of the State of  Utah, my terminal, or the view out my window are purely coincidental.  Any resemblance between the above and my own views is non-deterministic. 
 The question of the existence of views in the absence of anyone to hold them is left as an exercise for the reader. 
 The question of the existence of the reader is left as an exercise for the second god coefficient. 
(A discussion of non-orthogonal, non-integral polytheism is beyond the scope of this article).

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