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Sail Philippines
Weather and Climate
updated Jan 2000
 
Note: If you find old links on this page that don't
work, pls help everybody else by telling me to remove them. Thanks. peter@sailing.org.ph
My 2 Favorite
Weather Sites:
http://152.80.49.210/PUBLIC/WXMAP/GLOBAL/
This is a complicated site that takes some getting used to. If you want
a quickie don't go here. If you want complete weather info including wave
heights and wind strengths and forecasts for the next week, this is where
its at.
STEP 1: Click on "Westpac area". This will take you to a page that will
allow you to click on "NGP".
STEP 2: Find the lowest box on the left marked "OVER OCEAN SURFACE WINDS".
Click on "all times" or the # of hours from now that you want to see the
prediction for. It predicts almost a week in advance!
This site is amazing. There are Aviation (AVN) weather maps, predicted
rainfall maps. etc. I think it's one of the best sailing website there
is as far as weather is concerned.
It's good for forecasting Philippine weather, but its greatest
value must be for passage planning in the South East Asian Region.
It uses colors to show wind strengths over wide areas, and uses the
standard wind arrows to give direction as well as a more detailed strength
estimate.
It gives acurate forecasts of what wind conditions will be over periods
of several days, and it even has a movie so you can watch the weather move
accross your screen!
CNN's
Manila weather site
This used to be my default site on my browser. It's a pretty good site
that gets regular updates and is good for the person who doesn't think
of windstrength as a top priority. Its got quick downloads of asian maps
that show where the storms are.
Other
truly excellent, easy to use, Philippine weather sites
http://www.wniphil.com
This is a very new, very versatile site for philippine
weather, and the first site that shows local weather. It actually rates
as a favorite of mine because of this. It has good typhoon warnings and
news. From the main page, you can bookmark weather for specific locations
throughout the country. An excellent tool. For example, if you want to
check out Tagaytay weather, you can look at http://www.wniphil.com/guests/cities/tagaytay.htm
http://www.npmocw.navy.mil/npmocw/prods/products/wpac/wphwd.gif
Want to know the wind 36 hrs from now? This is
a direct connection.
www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/6825/
The Pinoy typhoon site. I find I'm checking
this site more and more.
Other new
sites added since April 1998 (most
of the better, new, sites are listed above)
http://weather.noaa.gov/weather/PH_cc.html
Gives airport weather, sometimes a bit late though.
The whole
list, broken down by category(excludes favorites and
new listings)
The information below this paragraph
was last updated in April of 1998. There is no plan as of now to update
the information below, however, if you do find that some of the links are
no longer working, please send me an update and I will remove them from
this page if I have time.
Forecasts and current weather for selected Philippine
cities
Current and forecast
weather: http://www.wniphil.com
current
weather
METAR
reports(RPVM-Masbate, RPLL-Ninoy Aquino Inter-National Airport, RPLB-Subic
Bay Weather Station)
PAGASA(Philippine weather
bureau- Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration)
HOMEPAGE :
24-hr Public Weather
Forecast
Area Synopsis
and 24-hr Shipping Forecast
Manila --CNN
||intellicast
||The
Weather Channel ||usa
today ||Washington
Post ||Rain
or Shine Weather
Baguio--Washington
Post ||CNN
Quezon--Washington
Post ||CNN
Davao--Washington
Post ||CNN
To call PAGASA directly for forecasts:
Weather Forecasting section:
+63-(2)-9264258, 9271335, 9271541, 9282031-I believe all these numbers
has FAXes
Meteorological Telecommunication Section:
9263767
Tropical cyclone info
Joint
Typhoon Warning Center Products(typhoon
forecasts and prognostic reasoning)
Significant
Tropical Weather Advisory For The Western North Pacific Area (180 To Malay
Peninsula)
latest
tropical cyclone satellite fix(every 3 hrs.)
Typhoon 98-The Philippines
first website on tropical cyclones
Tropical
cyclone strike probabilities for various Phil. cities
Northwest
Pacific Tropical Cyclone and Weather Information
Hurricanes,
Typhoons & Tropical Cyclones worlwide
Satellite picture
GMS
IR from nottingham(every 3 hrs.)
more
GMS-5 Satellite Images and Loops
Weather Chart/map/NWP(Numerical Weather Prediction)
Weather
and Forecast Maps
Honolulu
Standard Heights Facsimilie Charts
MISC.
FAX Charts
Map Image of JMA-Japan Meteorological
Agency GRIB(Numerical Weather Prediction Grid Point Values data) -for
Near Real Time info on parameters like Temperature, Wind for various levels,
pressure,etc. Hint: decrease the range of the map to increase resolution.
Look at the length of the wind vector for an estimation of its speed. If
you know how to process GRIB data, go
directly here to download the binary files.
PCMDI FNMOC NOGAPS Weather
Maps -- Tropical WESTPAC Area http://metoc-u1.fnmoc.navy.mil/wxmap/web/
Winds
See GRIB Data for good info on present and forecast wind
field in the area-many levels. NOGAPS Weather maps also contain good wind
info.
Both links are only for surface winds. Click
here for explanation of the wind plots.
PCMDI
FNMOC NOGAPS Weather Maps -- Tropical WESTPAC Area
latest
ocean observation of vicinity
Ocean
Surface Winds - JTWC Forecast Area
(satellite-derived winds)
36
Hr wind prediction http://www.npmocw.navy.mil/npmocw/prods/products/wpac/wphwd.gif
Other info
El Nino Theme
Page: Accessing Distributed Information Related to El Nino(NOAA)
sst(sea
surface temp), ground temp, and cloud top temp
Meteorological
Services at Tiawan
National
Weather Service Tiyan, Guam
weather underground
hk main page
Ocean
Surface Winds
Hong
Kong specific(Weather Wonderland of HK)
MISC.
info(includes the rest of Asia)
Mostly non-real-time sites
Colorado State U-tropical
meteorology
WMO FTP Directory-Data for
several World Meteorological Organization publications
UIUC
Cloud Catalog
decoding
SYNOP weather codes
mostly climate
NCDC-National Climatic Data Center
Asheville, N.C., USA-I think they also have climatic data for the Philippines
Deep Space Site: Weather-based
in Europe but it has worldwide climatic data
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