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Current Florida Weather...Reasonably current anyway. These links are provided here for youto plug the data into your Flight Simulator program cause we know your playing with your computer more than your flying. I wouldn't recommend planning a flight with them because everyone knows that calling flight service so they can tell you that VFR is not recommended is really the right thing to do. They are really great folks after all and need to talk to other humans occasionally, so give em a call - ey. To interpret the little wind arrows, they are not like wind socks, the wind is blowing from the tail to the point of the arrow. Also a long tail is 10 Knots a short tail 5 Knots of wind, so 2 long and one short would be (where is that calculator) 25 Knots. Who came up with this knot stuff? MPH, you get more of them per gallon, sounds faster,I like that. Back to the maps... The more the circle is filled in, the more cloud cover you have. The maps are all marked with this Z thing. To convert from Florida time add 5 hours during daylight savings time, in fact lets just stay on daylight savings time, I like it better. In fact Florida should be the standard, let everyone else set there watch by ours. In fact, what do we need watches for other than to see how old these maps are? Lets go flying!

Intellicast.Com - A great deal of information if you can find it all! Need to learn to use this.

US Weather - Unisys Weather Site. Excellent site, with lots of info. Chose links below to avoid figuring theirs out.

http://cdm.awc-kc.noaa.gov/ncwf/ - NWS Convective Weather Info. Interesting.

http://aviationweather.gov/ Aviation Weather

http://www.wunderground.com/ Weather Underground (weird name ya)

NOAA - Florida

NWS Tampa bay

FAA ASOS Weather

SurfaceWind, Cloud Cover, Rain, Fronts - a really busy map, almost too much information.

IFR/VFRChart - Cloud Cover, base also.

SouthEast Only Surface Wind, Cloud Cover. Now why would you wantto fly past the N. Florida border anyway?

Cool US Map, mixes sat cloud cover with fronts and radar - a easy to understand map.

Forecasts with MVFR, IFR, Rain,Cool little thunderstorm things... If you believe in forecasts that is, personally I'd rather see them put some windows in those new FSS buildings!

12hour Wind, Rain, Cloud Cover Forcast.

24hour Wind, Rain, Cloud Cover Forcast.

36hour Wind, Rain, Cloud Cover Forcast.

48hour Wind, Rain, Cloud Cover Forcast.

Now if you believe that they can predict 48 hours in advance...I've got some swamp land you might be interested in.

High Temps and Chance of Rain Map...If you can figure this one out your doing good.

Temp/RainHigh Temp and Rain Forcast.

Winds Aloft Map... 850 Milibarmap, who knows what altitude that is?

850Milibar Map Winds aloft Map. Now how high do you have to fly anyway?

Radar Map...

US RadarEcho's Map Don't fly in the colored areas if you want your wings to stay on.

Other Cool Weather Sources.