Weather, waves, winds, buoy data, and forecasts for CA sites on a single page

[MrSpock]

I just created a web page for most common CA diving regions: Waves n' Weather Forecasts: California The idea is to collect and display all weather info on a single page. Bookmark if you like it and feel free to forward to your dive buddies!

 

[micboucher]

Nice page! Thanks for sharing MrSpock.

 

[Chuck Tribolet]

Only about 11 years late:
http://www.garlic.com/~triblet/swell/wamglance.html (Monterey) and
http://www.garlic.com/~triblet/swell/abglance.html (North Coast)
have been around since 1998.

 

[TheMadDane]

Thanks Mr Spock, I like it, and I don't think you're 11 years too late,.

 

[sarita75]

cool. thanks for sharing.

 

[MrSpock]

You are very welcome! I just want to add, that there is no ads, banners, affiliation, etc. nor I'm making any profit out of it. I was just looking for a way to create a centralized single page to go to before going diving. I used nice flash snippets from wavewatch.com and accuweather.com programmed to display data by region.

BTW: Chuck, I'm familiar with the swell forecast maps you mentioned, but quite not figure out how to read them. And I believe am not the only one ;-) Also it appears half of them displayed as broken images all the time... Anyway, all the data come from the same NOAA buoys. I included the link to them as well.

 

[MrSpock]

Below is the list from my buddy. You can spend a day reading all these (instead of diving)

NorCal Weather:
Bay Area Wind Reports: http://www.iwindsurf.com/windandwhere.iws?regionID=126
Northern CA Forecast Map: http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/mtr/
Northern CA Buoy Map: http://facs.scripps.edu/surf/nocal.html
CA Swell Models: http://cdip.ucsd.edu/?nav=recent&sub=nowcast
Sonoma Country Swells: http://www.pacificwaverider.com/nocal/county/sonoma/4day.shtml
San Fransisco Animated Wind Forecast: http://www.weather.nps.navy.mil/profiler/map/loopcc.html
Monterey Animated Wind Forecast: http://www.weather.nps.navy.mil/profiler/map/loopcc.html
Humboldt Bar Forecast: http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/eka/swan/SWAN_loop.htm
Point Arena - Pigeon Point Forecast: http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/data/Forecasts/FZUS56.KMTR.html
FNMOC Wave Watch: https://www.fnmoc.navy.mil/PUBLIC/WW3/index.html
NOAA Satellite Imaging: http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/satellite/index.php?wfo=mtr
Pacific Ocean Weather Prediction: http://www.opc.ncep.noaa.gov/
California & Mexico Temp breaks: http://www.tempbreak.com/index.php?&cwregion=cc

Webcams
Avila Bay: http://www.newtimes-slo.com/index.php?p=avila
Morro Bay: http://www.slocam.com/mbmuseum.htm
Cayucos Beach: http://www.cayucosshorelineinn.com/cam.html
Monterey Del Monte Beach: http://131.120.106.140/indexFrame.shtml?newstyle=One&cam=1
Monterey Lover's Cove: http://pnetcam.stanford.edu/
Santa Cruz Wharf Tides & Cam: http://www.ci.santa-cruz.ca.us/pr/wharf/surfcamtides.html
Santa Cruz Harbor Entrance: http://www.stagecoach-wireless.com/Cameras/SCSH/Pos2.htm
Halfmoon Bay Mavericks: http://www.mavsurfer.com/live_cam/
San Francisco Bay Alameda: http://www.kitewindsurf.com/store/windcam.aspx
San Francisco Bay Sausalito: http://www.rntl.net/sausalitocam.htm
Point Reyes: http://www2.nature.nps.gov/air/WebCams/parks/porecam/porecam.cfm
Bodega Marine Lab: http://www.bml.ucdavis.edu/boon/webcam.html
Bodega Live: http://www.northbayweather.com/cams/bdg_morepix.shtml
Fort Bragg Noyo River: http://www.instacam.com/showcam.asp?id=CG015&size=L

Coast Guard
Light List: http://www.navcen.uscg.gov/pubs/LightLists/LightLists.htm

Distance:
Distance Calculator: http://www.wcrl.ars.usda.gov/cec/java/lat-long.htm

Oregon:
Land based weather station at Newport, Oregon
http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=nwpo3

Ocean Buoy approximately 20 NM West of Newport, Oregon
http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=46050

Floating Buoy at Coos Bay, Oregon
http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=46229

Land based weather station at Cape Argo, Oregon
http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=caro3

Land Based weather station at Charleston, Oregon
http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=chao3

Land based weather station at Port Orford, Oregon
http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=poro3

Ocean Buoy approximately 16 NM West of Port Orford, Oregon
http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=46015

Webcam
http://www.newportchamber.org/visit/home.cfm?dir_cat=8873

 

[dannobee]

Here is the live buoy reading page that I use.

All of the buoys are displayed on one page, with the info displayed for three seconds, the the next data set is displayed. Press the pause button on the upper left to stop at the needed data.

 

[fuggler]

BTW: Chuck, I'm familiar with the swell forecast maps you mentioned, but quite not figure out how to read them. And I believe am not the only one ;-) Also it appears half of them displayed as broken images all the time... Anyway, all the data come from the same NOAA buoys. I included the link to them as well.

YES (re: broken images, not easy to read) I gave up on that other page after looking at it once.

Thanks for putting together a clean and simple page, Spock. It's been bookmarked.

 

[Anti-Hero]

Only about 11 years late:
Monterey Sea Conditions at a Glance (Monterey) and
North Coast Sea Conditions At a Glance (North Coast)
have been around since 1998.

Was it some kind of competition?