Click here for Conversion Table  Temperature, Pressure and Time conversions.

Click here to go to the Bottom of this page   To see links to The Soaring Diary, Tips about Soaring, etc.
 

Jet Streams -

• Latest JET STREAM Chart at 300 mb ( 30,000 ft)
• Forecast 24 Hr. JET STREAM Chart at 300 mb (30,000 ft)
• Forecast 48 Hr. JET STREAM Chart at 300 mb (30,000 ft)

• Latest OAKLAND SOUNDING 
• Latest RENO SOUNDING 

• Viewer for BLIP MAPS
• TIP Reports
• Wave graphic for area from Mt Lassen to Bishop 
• Feedback for Thermals on Walker Ridge - Dr Jack needs feedback on how the forecast BLIP compared to actual conditions. If you fly report it.
• BLIP Charts for Montague - Dr Jack has set up charts that include Southern Oregon. Go to the BLIP Viewer after you go to this link.
  

• Open on the 300 mb Aviation Model home page (30,000 ft)  See all levels, up to 3 days.
• Open on the 300 mb MRF home page (30,000 ft) See two levels, up to 9 days. Note: as of March 02, there is a single index page for both the MRF and Aviation Models.  Aviation only goes out to three days, MRF goes to nine.   

• Mountain wave forecasts for several locations, including RNO, MEV, and BIH.

• Williams - Zone forecast for Interior Central California - Sacramento Valley - (Ohio state)

• Discussion of area weather in Northern California from SFO office.

• Latest Mountain SOARING Forecast from the Reno NWS Office

Messages posted by pilots - Flight Reports.

• Williams Live

•  Forecast soundings and winds from Forecast Systems Lab (NOAA)

Click here to go to Reminder notes about forecast soundings.

• Selection of West Coast Sat photos.  Look at Northern California, and increase the resolution by clicking on the photo.

• Latest enhanced IR sat photo of USA (showing coldest in red, then yellow, green, grey, and warmest as black), with depiction of Surface Highs/ Lows/ Fronts/ Wind arrows, etc

• Latest enhanced IR sat photo of the Eastern Pacific  (dark blue is cold (the highest), light blue warmer, black is hottest, meaning the lowest altitude)

• ADDS Weather by NOAA  Select charts, sat images, radar, forecasts, etc.
  

• Weather Undergorund  Select various products.  One more link to good resources.
  

• Link to the Reno Weather Service home page  Simple way to see forecasts in Sacramento Valley, by County!!!
  

• TV Weather - Channel 10 KXTV Sacramento   Select the weather section, then click on Doppler Radar for more.
  

• TV Weather - Channel 13 KOVR Sacramento  Select the weather section from the index page.
  

Reminder notes on forecast soundings:
After you go to the site at http://maps.fsl.noaa.gov/
On the left side is a menu, you will see a section called -
"Current and Forecast", and under that you will see "Interactive" - Click on Interactive.

The left side of the screen is a frame that will remain the same. Make that menu frame screen smaller, so you have
more room for the chart that appears. Drag the right border of that small menu screen to the left to make it small.

Scroll to the bottom of the new main screen, and select the following:
----- Select "RUC-2"
----- Change the "station" from Denver (DEN) to RBL for Red Bluff.
----- Then click on "Java Based Applets"

Load the forecast sounding for early afternoon, put your pointer on the airport elevation and the expected high temp for the day, and click!
See the shaded area of convective air. your pointer will give you a readout of allltitudes.
You can see the forecast of the winds very clearly at all altitudes on that right side also.
This is very helpful info, knowing the wind changes - make a note of it.
Return to Forecast Soundings
 

Conversion Table (Click here to return to top of this file )
 

(Conversion Info - Approximate)

Altitude Milllibars = Feet (Standard Day conversion)

Temperature C = F

Time UTC = Winter = Summer (Z = PST = PDST)