Useful Weather Links

Jeff Masters and Weather Underground.com

Dr. Jeff Masters blog is the most useful thing I have found as far as LEARNING about what happens and why. Dr. Masters not only tells what is going to happen but also explains it step by step why a storm will grow, not grow, or die. Good reading, check his blog here.

As well I use Weather Underground as my general page to pick up NOAA sea conditions as I like how Weather Underground has organized the data better than the NOAA has. You can use this entry page for Caribbean conditions or you can use this entry page for selecting another area of the world to view conditions for. After you open these pages you must then click the particular zone you want conditions for.

Intellicast

While not my primary source of weather information I do like www.intellicast.com. They have a few charts for the caribbean that others do not offer. I do not use them on a regular basis but do like some of their Caribbean products.

Other Data Sources

The EUMETSAT page is a great place to pick up weather data closer to Africa. This page is great for watching the development of weather systems, tropical waves, and Cape Verdes storms leaving Africa.

The FWI radar is a great set of data to look at for current conditions up and down the Caribbean Island chain.

US Military

The US Navy and the NRL Monterey Marine Meteorology Division provide their Tropical Cyclone Page to provide a tropical storm data set that covers both Atlantic and Pacific disturbances. This page will not show general weather but will only show "storm" data. As a storm grows it will appear on this page and then from this page you can drill down into the storm data and various model runs. While not formatted as well as some of the other data on the internet there is more data available here about a weather system than on many other sources around the net.

NOAA and NHC

The National Hurricane Center page is useful as well. I suppose this is the bible for what is going on with active storms.

The National Weather Service office in San Juan, Puerto Rico keeps tabs on things going on in the Caribbean, you can then pick the zone that you are in from their site.

As well the NOAA gives direct access to the output of their Wave Watch III data model. Here you can watch the models projected sea conditions and the movement of the seas around the globe.

Useful Software and Other Tools

GRIB Viewers

I use UGRIB, it is a free ware application! Ugrib allows instant and fully customizable access to global weather data simply by the click of a mouse. Within one simple to use interface you can download and view weather data right on your desktop. This is one amazing program for the price, simply drag a box over the area you want the conditions for and click download! My only complaint is that the software currently does not include wave data and only shows wind, pressure, and precipitation in its user interface. Still this is the best software for the price on the market, others may have free software, but this is both free software and free data.