I've found intellicast to be really good with the "Windcast" tab after you get to your area through the top "Find a Forecast" tab.
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<br>Looks like somewhere from 10-20 for this weekends first Fall Series in Panama City Florida.
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I found that www.weather.com is also pretty good. If you enter the city you'll be sailing in at the top of the page and then click on "Local", it'll give you a ten day forecast. If you click on "more details" for the day you'll be sailing, it will give you an hour-by-hour forecast for the winds. I used this last weekend, and it was dead on.<br><br>

The Weather Underground is also a really good site.
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<br>Try it at: http://www.weatherunderground.com<br><br>

We have a VERY extensive list of WEATHER sites and real time weather on our site: http://www.sailingproshop.com/weather.htm
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Hey Mark -
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<br>10-20?? You've been talking to that dreamer, Mike Wilson. I predict 8-10 - suffer all you giant people!
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<br>Here are a couple of my favorite weather sites - Mark, you might like the local aspect.
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<br>http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.phtml?$station=42039
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<br>http://home.earthlink.net/~gordozz/weather.html
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<br>There are a lot of NOAA off-shore bouys you can check for up-to-the-minute wind and wave data, graphed and everything. Pretty cool.
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<br>Meet at Navarre Winn Dixie parking lot at 0730 hours Saturday if you want to have breakfast/caravan to PC.
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Just call Bob! After all, a retired USAF Weatherman.
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The Undergroud link works well and is simple. Nice contribution!
<br>Also, for all you folks out there you don't have to be enticed to someone else's site.., We also have a ton of Weather Links on [color:red]THIS VERY SITE </font color=red>for weather. Just click on "Great Links" in the left-hand index or click on this hot link http://www.catsailor.com/cs_sailing_links_weather.html
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Dar John,
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<br>Are you IMPLYING that I am a LARGE person?! I've been really good today, I've had a FEW taquito's from What-a-Burger for breakfast, a Chinese All-You-Can-Eat Buffet for lunch and for dinner ONE large Pizza Hut Supreme Pizza...I'd call that the absolute model of restraint!
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<br>See you in the parking lot at 7:30...but remember: My stomach has been stretched and I'll be needing something like a Waffle House Steak and Eggs (with a sprinkle of Loess?), so don't mess with me!
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Weather underground is a good site but I found one that give hourly forcasts and has been right on more often than not. Its at www.accuweather.com. (http://www.accuweather.com/adcbin/local_index?nav=marine) Input the city and state and go from there. The hourly forcasts are great and the marine weather generally gives a week view with avg wind and gust estimates. I generally use this and weather underground (http://www.wunderground.com).
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All of you have some good ideas, so here are mine as well. I have found [color:green]iWindsurf</font color=green> to be the most comprehensive wind and tide readings, while [color:red]the WeatherUnderground</font color=red> has been the most historically accurate in my area [color:blue]Virginia Beach, VA</font color=blue>. How about a poll to settle on a fave, just for grins?
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<br>If I left out your favorite site, I apologize. Also, these have mostly been defaulted for the Virginia Beach, VA (Hobie Fleet 32, Division 9) and surrounding areas. They are easily modified by either map-clicking or entering a zip-code for the area you want to know about.
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Checkout this one:<br><br><br><br>Their full SoCal wind page is at: http://www.nawcwpns.navy.mil/~weather/mugu/mesodata/analysis.html<br>I have found this to be very useful for spotting wind trends and correlating them to general weather patterns.<br><br>Sail fast and have fun,<br>Alan Thompson<br>I20 - San Diego<br><br>

I suppose that's all fine and good, but do you know if there's a comparable link east-coast? In my limited searching, coupled with my restricted knowledge of naval acronyms, I haven't much of an idea where to look. There are several links on your listed page's homepage that point towards the NDBC, though. Just wondering, it looks like it might be a useful tool...<br><br>

Well, the poll ended up a three-way tie between the WeatherUnderground, iWindsurf, and Intellicast. Not a whole lot of votes in the 3 week run, but oh-well. Thanks for your votes. View the poll results here: [color:red]Weather Sites Poll Results</font color=red><br><br>