Weather

Essential soaring forecast tool for the front range.

Boulder, CO Weather Conditions

This site is really a one-stop site for most aviation weather and other info like TFRs, Pireps etc

Site gives you real time and very cool historical weather from NCAR Foothills Laboratory located about 1/2 mile from the field.

Is today going to be hotter than yesterday and what is the trend? Use this page to give you a good chart forecast of the next several days.

The killer app of soundings. This JAVA based sounding can be for any location and gives you all the Skew-T information by pointing at the graphic with your mouse. Learning how this applet works and understanding the information it presents will really pay dividends. Try this out for a custom sounding anyplace including Boulder.

Surface condition weather forecasting for air sports aviators.

Dr Jack is the creator of the TIP (Thermal Index Prediction) and BLIP (Boundary Layer Information Prediction) programs for predicting thermal soaring conditions, and the WINDIP (Wind Information Prediction) and LWIP (Linear Wave Interpretation Page) pages for predicting mountain wave conditions. You can become a registered user or subscriber at this site and this is well worth the effort.

Map of Colorado automated weather observation systems.

Meteorological data are from the Saddle, at 3528m (11,572 ft) on Niwot Ridge. The peak wind gust information is recorded instantaneously, with a sampling interval of 5 seconds. The other measurements are one hour averages comprised of 720 samples collected at 5 second intervals.

Denver NEXRAD loop for local heavy weather including T-storms.

BC's favorite link.

This sensor is 80 feet atop one of the windmills down by Rocky Flats.

 Camera is located at west end of runway on top of NCAR's Foothills Laboratory.

 Prime general aviation weather sites. Great wind matrix, satellite and radar, etc. A good stop for general synoptic weather.  

 For continental United States.

TundraCam is located 64 km (40 miles) northwest of Denver, Colorado (USA) at an elevation of 3528m (11,600'). The cam is only 27 km (17 miles) west of Boulder, Colorado, shown above. More specifically, it lies above timberline on Niwot Ridge in the Front Range mountains. The peaks at the head of the ridge form the Continental Divide. The camera blows away from time to time.  

Weather Channel forecast.     

 Weather Underground interactive weather site. 

XC Skies has teamed up with MesoWest, a research group from the University of Utah. MesoWest aggregates surface observations from across North America as close to real-time as possible. Currently, MesoWest contains over 16,000 actively reporting surface observations.You may need to click on the map to get the latest data.