Realtime Weather Bookmarks (for west Metro Denver Area)

• SRRL BMS Data Plot: Live - Just south of South Table Mountain in Golden  (green wind speed in mph on left, red direction in degrees on right.  This tower is a mile or two east of Lookout Mountain and Mt. Zion, so ESE to NE winds are desired there or WNW to N to ENE for Green Mountain)
• NWTC M2 Data Plot: Live - Just north of Rocky Flats (same as BMS but this tower is dedicated to wind research.  This tower is a mile or two west of the Powerlines R/C site  NW is desired.. N is flyable, W is flyable..  Anywhere south of west, or east of north, even a couple degrees is disasterous)
• Special text links to the above two tower's data formatted for web enabled handheld devices
  showing time, wind direction and speed (in mph) for the last 200 minutes. 
  BMS Data (for Treo 300)  M2 Data (for Treo 300)     BMS Data (for Treo 600)  M2 Data (for Treo 600)
  Should work with many other devices as the links are pure text.  Try each link and see.
• Live weather display at BMS tower    (I think the wind plots above are more useful)
• Live weather display at M2 tower  
• CSM Action CAM #4 - Big M cam (points at M on Mt. Zion and Paraglider launch is visible to right)
• Anything Weather:   Rooney Rd Golden conditions and forecast
• Colorado METARs  (shows wind direction and speed for all known METAR stations in the area)
• Interesting animated loop of wind observations over Colorado
• Wind METAR animation and forecast for SW US region
• Weather Underground: Computer Forecast Guidance for KDEN - Forecast graphs (like a graph of past conditions but projected out into future)
• Weather Underground: Weather Discussion (technical) (this info is what forecasters read.. when, why, how, and plenty of probablies)
• Weather Underground - Lakewood area forecast + WX stations  (Denver forecast plus conditions at all  the home WX stations around town)
• Weather Underground - Link to personal weather stations on google map (shows temp and wind direction around the frontrange, now including BMS, M2, and NCAR)
• Weather and wind info at NCAR in south Boulder (want for ESE to SSE winds here to catch the big SE face, can fly E in a pinch)
• Bear Creek WX talker (303) 697-4766    (This is about 1 mile west of Bear Creek Lake.  Conditions often different here than anywhere else.  Generally not to be trusted)
• Latest MAPS/RUC SkewT sounding diagram plus 3 hours forecast for a MAPS in an interactive Java applet.
  It's for a grid point close to Golden Colorado in front of Mt. Zion.   A tremendous amount of information can be gleaned from these charts.
  You can enter your own LAT/LON or a nearby airport code for your own region.  Will give you a good idea of potential for thermal convection,
  atmospheric stability (inversions and thunderstorms), wind direction at the surface and any otheraltitude, and on and on.     Start here to get
  soundings for your own area based on LAT-LON.   Or here for the non interactive version (latest SkewT for this location) .    Here's some
  tutorials on how to read them.   Michigan Tech Skew-T Information,  UCSD Skew-T How-To,   Down Under Introduction to Skew-Ts
  This is the same data that your local and national forecasts are all based on.
• MAPS/RUC Wind forecasts for the north central region of the US including Colorado.  Start here for your own region.
• Rocky Mountain Hanggliding and Paragliding Association weather and soaring forecast links

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