Cragin's Weather Links for HG & PG Pilots
Updated November 10, 2007
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Weather Maps
Winds
Forecasts by Location
Other Recommended Weather Pages
- Multiple source info on one page for many selected flying sites with interactive updates. Highly recommended, especially if you have high bandwidth connection.
- Get winds at altitude information here. If the ADDS page does not load properly, turn off any program that blocks banner advertisements, such as AdSubtract.
- Source of the Launch Code. Valuable resource for hang gliding, paragliding, sky diving, and ultralight aviation.
- More weather links than you can imagine
- Lift velocity, max themal height, and lots of other info in nice color-coded maps, from a sailplane pilot meteorologist. Soaring pilot testimonials
I built this page to support pilots flying hang gliders and paragliders at sites frequented by members of the Capital Hang Gliding & Paragliding Association and the Maryland Hang Gliding Association .
This page is designed to be low-bandwidth friendly and browser independent. It is simple HTML with no scripts, no style sheets (CSS), and maximum compliance with W3C standards. The page does fail automated W3C validation because of the URL structure in many of the links, but I cannot fix that.
If you have a comment or suggestion, or notice a broken link, please e-mail me at cragin_sh(AT)yahoo(DOT)com
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History
November 11, 2007, Changed Weather Underground local banner from Woodstock to Winchester, because Woodstock wind direction data was consistently inaccurate.
October 28, 2007, added WeatherUnderground stickers for current conditions and sun and moon times.
April 14, 2007, added MHGA link.
April 23, 2006, Updated Flight(b)Log Ego Link.
March 4, 2006, Updated Intellicast and Skew T links.
March 26, 2005. Re-arranged layout, repaired broken links.
June 9, 2004. Repaired broken links.
April 8, 2004. Removed bad daily forecast links.
April 29, 2004. Added Alek Beynenson's NOAA ARL Accumulator Page.
March 13, 2004. Improved organization by site, added more locality forecasts.
March 7, 2004. Added more Meteograms, new clean-up.
January 31, 2004. Cleaned up dead links, moved to new server, updated e-mail address.
June 22, 2003. Continued clean-up of TWC links in Weather Maps table. Removed dead link to MHGA. Removed link to Jim Keller's weekend forecast, which he no longer updates.
June 20. 2003. Another attempt to clean up the Weather Channel maps links.
June 14, 2003. Updated Weather Channel map page links (again!), linking full pages instead of just maps. Sorry about that, Chief. Page now fails W3C validation due to details in Intellicast link URL.
August 23, 2002. Updated weather map links for The Weather Channel.
June 23, 2002. Added Airsports Launch Code links to the Forecasts by Location table.
May 25, 2002. Reorganized Winds table and added NOAA Surface Winds forecast for three days (same data usd by Boater's Box). Added link to BLIPMAPS
April 21, 2002. Updated club links.
April 5, 2002. Updated links to the new format for NGM/MOS Meteograms at Weather Underground. Added Kevin Ford's Soarcast at the new site.
March 15, 2002. Corrected doctype specification and validated page code with W3C HTML Validator.
March 7, 2002. Changed to new ADDS link and added note on proper display.
January 19, 2002. Moved page to new internet service provider. Updated mailto: link for new e-mail address.
December 22, 2001. Replaced dead NOAA link in Winds table with Boaters Box link. Updated club name reference to the new biwingual CHGPA name.
November 25, 2001. Removed links to Soarcast from Texaas A&M University (because I never found it useful). If anyone was actually using this feature, e-mail me and I'll add it back to the page. Reorganized links to a more logical layout, related to major flying sites. Added links to The Weather Channel's hourly detail forecast.
July 29, 2001. Added new SkewT plot for Dulles. Brought code into compliance with HTML 4.0.
June 3, 2001. Added new surface map and SkewT plot for Dover. Removed Dover from Soarcast options.
