BELIZE WEATHER LINKS

AmbergrisCaye.com Hurricane Board
https://ambergriscaye.com/cgi-bin/forumdisplay.cgi?action=topics&number=7&SUBMIT=Go
Inactive when no storms are in the area of Belize
ALSO - related to a wider area of storms... http://www.palmbeachpost.com/storm/content/weather/special/storm/letstalk/bbs.html

Hurricane Tracking Chart from NOAA - to fill in- http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/AT_Track_chart2.pdf

My Main Weather Satellite Shots
The closest National Data Buoy to San Pedro (Station 42056 - Yucatan Basin -
19.87 N 85.06 W (19°52'27" N 85°03' 33" W))- http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=42056
B & W Visual - http://www.goes.noaa.gov/GIFS/HUIR.JPG - LOOP-
Atlantic Color - http://www.weather.com/maps/maptype/satelliteworld/tropicalatlanticsatellite_large.html - LOOP -
Sea Surface Temp - http://www.wunderground.com/tropical/
GOES-8 Interactive Infrared Satellite Imagery Viewer - http://wwwghcc.msfc.nasa.gov/GOES/goes8hurrir.html
Canadian- RAD - http://gfx.weatheroffice.ec.gc.ca/satellite/animateweb_e.html?imagetype=satellite&imagename=goes_enam_1070_m_..................jpg&nbimages=1&clf=1
Caribbean Color - http://www.weather.com/maps/geography/oceans/caribbeansatellite_large.html - LOOP -
Tracking/visible combo - use for background pattern during hurricane season http://www.atl.ec.gc.ca/weather/hurricane/current6.html
Whole earth images - http://www.sat.dundee.ac.uk/pdus.html
GOES Yucatan - IR - http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/TROP/DATA/RT/FLOAT/IR4/20.jpg
GOES Gulf of Mexico IR - http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/TROP/DATA/RT/GMEX/IR4/20.jpg
IR Satellite- Atlantic- http://www.wrel.com/hurr_sat.htm
AWESOME photograph-like view http://rsd.gsfc.nasa.gov/goese/autogvar/goes8/hurrican/color/0000_latest.jpg
NEW- TROPICAL UPDATE- WEATHER.COM - http://www.weather.com/newscenter/tropical/index.html
Central Florida Hurricane Center - very complete - http://flhurricane.com/
Cancun Radar - http://smn.cna.gob.mx/radares/rad-canc.jpg

Best Track- http://www.nrlmry.navy.mil/tc_pages/tc_home.html
National Hurricane Center / Tropical Prediction Center - http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/
Everything but the kitchen sink - Crown Weather Services Tropical Weather Information - http://www.crownweather.com/tropical.html
Quick Hurricane Web Resource Navigator - very complete - http://www.stormcarib.com/nav/
Weather Discussions and Local Reports - http://stormcarib.com/index.htm#disc
Jeff Masters- http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/show.html
Real Time GOES Imagery - Water Vapor Loop - http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/TROP/DATA/RT/float-wv-loop.html
Real Time GOES Imagery - Visible Loop - http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/TROP/DATA/RT/float-vis-loop.html
GOES Western Atlantic Water Vapor Loop - http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/TROP/DATA/RT/watl-wv-loop.html
Realtime Satellite Images From GOES - http://orbit-net.nesdis.noaa.gov/arad/fpdt/imgs.html
Graphic representation of computer generated projected tracks - http://www.wrel.com/modelmap.htm
Thermal map of upper clouds - http://www.wunderground.com/global/Region/AT/2xIRSatellite.html
Caribbean Sea Weather- http://www.tropicalweatherwatchers.com/CaribbeanSea.html
Java Track- Western Atlantic - http://www.hurricanetrack.com/Java/westatl.html
Java Track- Western Caribbean - http://www.hurricanetrack.com/Java/westcarib.html
Java Track- Eastern Caribbean - http://www.hurricanetrack.com/Java/eastcarib.html
Key West Radar - LOOP - http://www.srh.noaa.gov/radar/loop/DS.p20-r/si.kbyx.shtml
CNN Central American & Caribbean Satellite - http://www.cnn.com/WEATHER/CAmerica/sat.html

DISCUSSION-
accuweather - http://hurricane.accuweather.com/adcbin/hurricane/ocean.asp?ocean=atlantic&partner=accuweather
Also : http://hurricane.terrapin.com/
Here are a couple of tropical weather sites that have PLAIN TEXT displays and are therefore fast loading even at BTL speeds.
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/MIAOFFNT3.shtml
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/MIATWDAT.shtml
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/storm/content/weather/special/storm/letstalk/bbs.html - discussion site. everybody and joes uncle telling you whats up. everyone an expert, everyone guessing, but there are jewels in the rough. you get used to reading the more knowledgeable folks after awhile...
GO PBI - http://www.palmbeachpost.com/storm/content/weather/special/storm
Tropical Weather BBS - http://s2.invisionfree.com/Tropical_weathers/index.php

Come here for closeups
http://www.nrlmry.navy.mil/tc_pages/tc_home.html
http://wwwghcc.msfc.nasa.gov/GOES/goes8conusir.html
Same satellite but for entire Atlantic - http://wwwghcc.msfc.nasa.gov/GOES/goes8hurrir.html
GOES-12 Interactive Infrared Weather Satellite Image Viewer - Zoom right in on AC and see the satellite weather patterns over the island: - http://weather.msfc.nasa.gov/GOES/goeseastconusir.html
GOES-12 Water Vapor - http://wwwghcc.msfc.nasa.gov/GOES/goeseastconuswv.html

MAJOR SITES WITH MAPS, TRACKING INFO, DISCUSSIONS, PUBLIC ADVISORIES

National Hurricane Center / Tropical Prediction Center - http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/

Weather Underground
http://www.wunderground.com/tropical/
Blogs from Wunderground - http://www.wunderground.com/blog/index.html?range=updated

Intellicast
http://www.intellicast.com/Local/USNationalStd.asp?loc=usa&seg=StormCenter&prodgrp=Tropical&product=ActiveTropical&prodnav=none&pid=none

Tropical Outlook
http://www.intellicast.com/Local/USNationalStd.asp?loc=usa&seg=StormCenter&prodgrp=Tropical&product=TropicalOutlook&prodnav=none&pid=none

Dept Meteorology, Univ Hawaii
http://lumahai.soest.hawaii.edu/cgi-bin/tropicalwx.cgi

ACCU-Weather
http://hurricane.accuweather.com/adcbin/hurricane/ocean.asp?ocean=atlantic&partner=accuweather

Hurricane Alley - http://www.hurricanealley.net/

MAPS-
NRL Monterey Marine Meteorology Division Tropical Cyclone Page
BEST B/W satellite Image, Best tracking Maps
http://www.nrlmry.navy.mil/tc_pages/tc_home.html

Tropical RAMSDIS Online - http://www.cira.colostate.edu/ramm/rmsdsol/TROPICAL.html - used to display animated real-time GOES-8 imagery

Weather.com Caribbean Satellite
http://www.weather.com/maps/geography/oceans/caribbeansatellite_large.html

Weather.com Atlantic Satellite
http://www.weather.com/maps/geography/oceans/atlanticoceansatellite_large.html

GOES-8 Tropical North Atlantic
http://lumahai.soest.hawaii.edu/cgi-bin/satgroup.cgi?thumbs=on&group=g08trop

Tropical Strike Map- change link each storm
Claudette http://www.wunderground.com/tropical/tracking/at200304.html
or link from http://www.wunderground.com/tropical/

Tropical Atlantic Satellite
http://www.weather.com/maps/maptype/satelliteworld/tropicalatlanticsatellite_large.html

Caribbean Loop
http://www.intellicast.com/Local/USNationalStd.asp?loc=usa&seg=StormCenter&prodgrp=SatelliteImagery&product=CaribbeanLoop&prodnav=none&pid=none

Atlantic Loop
http://www.intellicast.com/Local/USNationalStd.asp?loc=usa&seg=StormCenter&prodgrp=SatelliteImagery&product=AtlanticLoop&prodnav=none&pid=none

LARGE Atlantic Loop
http://www.weather.com/maps/maptype/satelliteworld/tropicalatlanticsatellite_large_animated.html

LARGE Caribbean Loop
http://www.weather.com/maps/maptype/satelliteworld/caribbeansatellite_large_animated.html

Hurricane & Storm Tracking for the Atlantic & Pacific Oceans
http://hurricane.terrapin.com/

NOAA's Geostationary Satellite Server (GOES)
http://www.goes.noaa.gov/g8hu.html

GOES-8 Interactive Global Geostationary Weather Satellite Images
http://www.ghcc.msfc.nasa.gov/GOES/

GOES-8 Interactive Infrared Satellite Imagery Viewer
Come here when it gets close
http://www.ghcc.msfc.nasa.gov/GOES/goes8hurrir.html
or http://wwwghcc.msfc.nasa.gov/GOES/goes8conusir.html
Second one appears a bit more up to date, by 30 minutes or so....
This GOES satellite is by far the best and most updated. Click on the area you wish to see close up, and up comes a huge less than 15 minutes old satellite shot.

Belize City Area Satellite
http://www.intellicast.com/Local/IntlLocalWide.asp?loc=mzbz&seg=LocalWeather&prodgrp=CentralAmerica&product=CaribbeanHIRES&prodnav=none

Modelling - http://met.psu.edu/tropical/tcgengifs/
a page that lets you see a nice animation of various models' predictions. I suggest using 500MB Vorticity as a good way to tell the predicted track of a storm.

Significant wave height in the Caribbean - http://www.navo.navy.mil/LIBRARY/Metoc/Caribbean/Regional+Caribbean/MODELS/SWAPS/Sig+Wav+Ht+and+Dir+Series/index.html

Cuban Weather Site - http://www.met.inf.cu/
Cuban radars - http://www.met.inf.cu/radar.asp

GENERAL INFORMATION

NOAA News
http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/

Shows the center of the low based on barometric readings as opposed to the cloud mass
http://lumahai.soest.hawaii.edu/cgi-bin/satview.cgi?sat=g08&channel=UI4&size=stand&satregion=gmx&anim=no

Cancun & Cozumel WebCam
http://www.cozumel-hotels.net/webcam/index.htm

Captain Tropic's Hurricane Survival - http://www.captaintropic.com/ -
this site is totally dedicated to the task of hurricane and tropical storm survival. You can explore all aspects of hurricane preparedness on one site.

The Hurricane Hunters - http://www.hurricanehunters.com/

All about Hurricanes- Hurricanes as Heat Engines
http://mynasadata.larc.nasa.gov/hurricanes-as-heat-engines

Dundee Satellite Receiving Station - http://www.sat.dundee.ac.uk/auth.html
Whole earth images - http://www.sat.dundee.ac.uk/pdus.html

OFFICIAL BELIZEAN SITES
NEMO Belize Online, Weather - disaster site
http://www.geocities.com/nemobz

Meteorological site for Belize
http://www.hydromet.gov.bz

Disaster organization NEMO in Belize
http://www.nemo.org.bz

Peter's faves
http://www.nrlmry.navy.mil/tc_pages/tc_home.html

http://www.goes.noaa.gov/GIFS/HUIR.JPG

http://www.goes.noaa.gov/FULLDISK/GEIR.JPG

Rays Faves
http://wwwghcc.msfc.nasa.gov/GOES/goes8hurrir.html

http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/g8/latest_g8ir.gif

RECENT BATCH O Links, October 2011