Tweeters,

Probably you all know about this already, but I just found this web
site that provides weather radar maps and satellite photos,
continuously updated. It's great for checking whether the weather at
a potential birding site is good or bad or awful. The web pages are
ostensibly for airplane pilots, but it's free and they invite everyone
in.

I clicked a couple of levels down to the radar weather map and the
satellite images. They can be printed out, but you lose a bit in
going from color to black and white. The web address for the radar
maps is:

http://www.intellicast.com/weather/sea/nexrad/

I used these maps to learn that, even though the weather was terrible
in Seattle on Sunday, the West 90 was clear of rain, apparently
because it was in the Olympic Mts. rain shadow. So we headed north to
see the owls!

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Just in case you're interested, here's the route I used to get to the
above site:

1. I clicked on "Weather page", under "Weather" in the Bookmarks in
Netscape.

2. It told me it went somewhere else, so I clicked on the "Follow
Me".

3. This took me to the "intellicast" site:

http://www.intellicast.com/

4. The letterhead for the intellicast site has a bunch of clickable
titles, one of which is crammed in there and is "weather". I
clicked on that.

5. That took me to a page with "Every weather link known":

http://www.intellicast.com/weather/

This is a page with hundreds of links, organized by type or
region. I paged down to "United States" (organized
alphabetically) and then clicked on "PacificNorthwest Aviation
Weather".

6. I paged down twice to: "Radar, Satellite, And More Charts Than
You Though Were Possible!", and clicked on that.

7. Under that were columns of "Satellite Images", "Radar Images",
etc. I clicked on "Seattle NEXRAD Radar", under the Radar column.

8. And that took me to the above mentioned site and map. Neat, eh?
But of course, you can skip all that by just going to the site
above. Nevertheless, it's neat to see what all's available.


Bob Mauritsen
Seattle
rhm at ms.washington.edu