College of Marin  Geography   Weather Resources

National Weather Service forecast for Kentfield

• Real-Time Weather Stations in Marin
  

• Local Radar and Satellite images for the area.

• KPIX Northbay doppler radar
  
• Doppler radar of the Bay Area from NWS
• Loop to see direction of activity

• The static Pacific satellite image
• The looped Pacific satellite images for the last 12 hours.

• Other Marin Related Issues

• Potential flooding periods in the Ross Valley
• MMWD's summer watering tips (evapotranspiration in action!)
• Offshore SF bouy information

  
Satellite images (info on these satellite views)

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Other Weather Resources

• WeatherNex (Univ. of Michigan's Weather Underground)
• The University of Illinois Weather Machine
• The Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell University.
• University of Hawaii Meteorology

Commercial Ventures on the WEB

• USA Today's Weather Pages They have some interesting support materials for teachers and students
• NBC's INTELLiCast
• Accu-Weather, Inc.
• The Weather Channel

Other Information

• Daily Tide Prediction (San Francisco Bay)
• U. Navy Fleet Numerical Meterology & Oceanography Center

• (wave heights, weather and sea surface temperatures).

Weather Resource Providers

• Satellite imagery

This data comes from geostationary satellites orbiting around 22,000 miles above the equator. These satellites provide hemispheric shots of the earth on a hourly basis and animations of the past 12 hour.
Info for first time users of the Unisys weather site.

Those of interest for California weather.

• Western Visible Image (not useful at night)
• Details of what this image shows?
• Western Infrared Image (useful even at night)
• Details of what this image shows?
• Western Enhanced Infrared Image
• Details of what this image shows?
• Western Water Vapor Image (some of the most beautiful!)
• Details of what this image shows?
• Composite Image Infrared and Radar
• Details of what this image shows?
• Composite Image Satellite Surface Map
• the infrared satellite image overlaid with the current surface weather map.
• Surface data

Surface data comes from land based instrumentation generally setup at airports and reported on an hourly basis. This type of data are visualized in terms of simple plots on geographical maps, contours on the same maps and meteograms which are time series plots for a specific station. In addition, the National Weather Service provides locations of all fronts in North America which can be decoded and plotted.

• Surface Meteogram for SFO
• Details on Meteograms
• Southwestern U.S. Raw Data Plot
• All Surface Data Details
• Composite Surface Temperature & Wind Plot for SW U.S.