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Pacific NorthWet RASP — Regional Atmospheric Soaring Predictions maintained by TJ Olney

Updated as new model runs become available. Skagit, Fraser Valley domains run once daily overnight.
Blanchard, Tiger, and EBEY domains run three times daily. PNW domain run evenings and mornings.

Main RASP page. http://home.comcast.net/~wxtofly
Any of the available maps can be "looped" over the course of the hours available using the loop link next to the map link. This will open in a new window.
Blanchard Special loop that varies over time and altitude showing forecast winds and convergence lift at each altitude and time.
Tiger Special loop that varies over time and altitude showing forecast winds and convergence lift at each altitude and time.
Fraser Valley Special loop that varies over time and altitude showing forecast winds and convergence lift at each altitude and time.
Windgrams: Fancy charts of the expected wind at every altitude over the course of a day above our various flying sites. Background colors indicate the local lapse rate, a good indicator of how easily lift can happen. There is also a graphing of the LCL or the lowest expected cloud base. It may also soon have the CCL or the highest expected cumulus cloud base. These are quite likely to be wrong, even moreso than many other forecast measures. PDA /iphone/cellphone friendly access to windgrams

BlipSpots: Tables of important forecast numbers for the day for foot-launch flying sites. Includes Wind, Lift, Clouds, Surface temp.. Regenerated after each RASP model run.
PDA /iphone/cellphone friendly access to Blipspots
frameblipspots.html Dr.Jack's Blipspots (Subscription to Dr.Jack Required) Same generated by Dr. Jack's system.

Non-RASP weather pages that include current observations and forecasts collected from many sources.

Main Blanchard page: Current observations and collected forecasts from many sources.

Including all on the same page, the current visible satelite photo, current radar, current wind map from NWS, webcam showing Blanchard launch and webcam looking South from Bellingham Bay. The page also includes the NWS

qn.html development version of the blanchard page. May have experimental features. Updated every 5 minutes.

blanchard.html Stable version of the blanchard page. Only brought up to qn.html when features seem better and stable. Updated every 5 minutes.

Slightly simplied version of the above, no forecasts, only current observations initially visible.

Main Ft Ebey page: Current observations and collected forecasts from many sources.

whidbeymos.html Updated every 10 minutes.

Smith Island Winds so far today. Updated hourly. at hh:20

My weather widget — Pick a site then pick a forecast type. (or map type) It fetches it for you. Point and click map or specific pre-determined sites.

My Wx Widget

Soundings

Soundings RUC MAPS and RASP (Rapid Update Cycle)

Produced every hour, these are the most current forecasts available at this time.

Framed, side by side Maps, and RUC2 soundings for all sites. Default is current hour and other hours can be navigated to.

RUC soundings re presented for lower elevations only including TI and local lapse rate. This gives a clearer picture of the RUC soundings at low elevations where we fly.

Same as above, but this version includes a couple of other calculated measures.
TI is Thermal Index and LPT is the Theoretical temperature of a Lifted Parcel of air starting at the ground. When the Lifted parcel temperature cools to the temperature of the surrounding air, the TI = 0.

Printable Text only (No graphical plot), sounding forecast data for whole day. These are good to print and take to the hill with you. Regenerated hourly.

Another version of the Text only RUC and MAPS soundings for printing that includes the current mountain fire weather forecast, LAMP, GFS, and NAM forecasts. The mountain fire weather forecast is especially nice as it forecasts winds at 20' both in the valleys and along the ridge-tops. Regenerated hourly.

RASP soundings

— the RASP system also produces soundings. These are accessible from the main RASP page as well.

The following links show multiple hours of sounding plots on one page.

BJ_soundings.html

Baldy_soundings.html

BlackLZ_soundings.html

Black_Mt_soundings.html

BlanchardLZ_soundings.html

Blanchard_soundings.html

Bridal_soundings.html

Chelan_soundings.html

Dog_Mt._soundings.html

FtEbey_soundings.html

Glacier_Pk_soundings.html

IronMt_soundings.html

Mt_Baker_soundings.html

Mt_Rainier_soundings.html

Penthouse_soundings.html

Saanich_soundings.html

Saddle_soundings.html

Sauk_Mt_soundings.html

Snoqualime_Pass_soundings.html

Stewart_soundings.html

TIGER_soundings.html

Woodside_soundings.html

National Weather Service Discussions

-- An attempt has been made to make the sometimes obscure NWS forecast discussions easier to read. (The translator is sometimes fooled by ambiguous abbreviations.)

Translated Forecast discussion

Translated Forecast discussion with embedded weather map images.

Marine forecast Admiralty Inlet and Strait of Juan de Fuca

Translated Mountain fire weather -- tracks valley and slope winds at 20ft.

latestvisible.html

Close to real time surface observations from APRS network and Weather underground and mesowest

aprs.html

Miscelaneous pages.

winds_aloft.html Forecast from Vancouver BC and Seattle

Collection of all listed flying sites and their most current official wind forecasts. windcastsonly.html

meso.html A nearly obsolete presentation of 9 mesowest observations on one page.

padillaframe.html A special page to present the Padilla Bay winds

padillawinds.html A different version.

Compact pages of current observations for Mobile devices.

qblan.html

qeast.html

qebey.html

qtiger.html

Maps and Map access

My Wx Widget Pick a site or Lat and Lon then pick a map type. It fetches it for you.

bctopomaps.html

fraservalleytopo.html

AtlasCanadaTopographicMaps.htm

fetchmap.htm If you are interested in a particular site, this is best started from My Wx Widget by choosing your site and clicking Large Topo Map.

Radio related

myhent.htm

wavecalc.htm

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