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Weather Links


Forecasts and Information

Balloonist's Wind Forecast
http://www.bagiballoon.org/wind

Balloonist's Weather Page
http://www.blastvalve.com/weather/

Winds Aloft from National Weather Service
http://aviationweather.gov/products/nws/fdwinds/

Great Color Presentation by Air Sports
http://www.usairnet.com/cgi-bin/launch/code.cgi

Danville IL Weather - Air Sports
http://tinyurl.com/qqx3z

BlastValve for Danville IL
http://tinyurl.com/h7296

Experimental Forecast for Danville IL
http://tinyurl.com/yrqotf

DUATS - On Line FAA certified briefing
http://www.duats.com

National Weather Service--Printable Forecasts
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/crh/

Aviation Digital Data Service (ADDS) -
    get TAFs, Sat, National level stuff
http://adds.aviationweather.noaa.gov/

Weather Underground - Great Radar, Sunrise
http://www.wunderground.com/

Surface Map - Weather Channel
http://image.weather.com/images/maps/current/curwx_600x405.jpg
VAD Winds
http://www.wunderground.com/radar/radblast.asp?ID=ILX&type=NVW

Soundings from Global Systems Division of NOAA
http://rucsoundings.noaa.gov/

Chart of Temperature, Time, Knots, and Stability (PDF) http://Www.heritagedevelop.com/balloon/conversions.pdf

Reference Pages

Cloud types
http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/cld/cldtyp/home.rxml

Skew T Basics
http://www.theweatherprediction.com/thermo/skewt/
Ohio State Weather
http://twister.sbs.ohio-state.edu/

Wind Wisdom - ballooning tutorial
http://www.windwisdom.net/