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Current Conditions

Sat24 - (almost) live satellite pictures of UK
Bramblemet - roughly equidistant from Cowes, Calshot and Hill Head. Also available as WAP at www.bramblemet.co.uk/wap
Hurst Castle - east of Barton-On-Sea (seems to only work with IE, not Firefox)
Poole Harbour Weather
Skylinkweather - 100 UK locations
Strategic Regional Coastal Monitoring Programmes - south coast stations
Wendy Windblows - telephone into automated weather stations (paid subscription)
Weymouth Weather
XC Weather - Actual Wind/Temp/Pressure/Weather
Henstridge Airfield weather station which gives up-to-the minute accurate weather reports 24/7. It is 8 miles NW of Bell and slightly less SW of Mere, so useful for both sites

Live Webcams

Swanage webcam - controllable web cam you can zoom on Ballard take-off. log in is guest, pswd guest
Ballard Down
Bournemouth Webcams
Milford-on-Sea - Hordle Cliffs (beach huts) with view W to Barton
Weymouth
Dorset Webcams

Forecasts

Technical
COLA - Euro and World Charts
ECMWF - synoptic charts +3-6 days
Glidemet - gliding weather for southern Britain
RASP - Regional Atmospheric Soaring Prediction: thermal strength, cloudbase, soundings, etc.


Local
Met Office SW forcast
Blandford - for Bell Hill
Bournemouth - for Southbourne
Christchurch - for Barton
Dorchester - for Cowdown / Telegraph(Batcombe) / Eggerdon
Lasham Gliding Society - nr Alton, Hants (email subscription)
Shaftesbury - for Monk's Down / Winklebury / Whitsheet
Swanage - for Ballards / Knitson / Kimmeridge
Weymouth - for White Horse / Ringstead

General
Accuweather - a selection of UK cities
BBC UK Weather - wind and synoptics avalable
hgpg.co.uk - a collection of weather links
Meteorologica
Netweather GFS and other charts
Oceanweather
Ten day temperature outlook for Europe
Ten day precipitation outlook for Europe
Windguru - coastal weather, Kimmeridge Bay selected

Satellite


High Resolution Images, Dundee (subscription service)

 

 

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