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Which weather forecasting services do you use to make lesson scheduling decisions ?
We depend on several weather forecasting services in order to make a decision to post a lesson schedule. Here's a quick summary:
ikitesurf.com
- local human forecast and a few localized computer model forecasts,
private sensors near most kite beaches in US, as well as lots of other
very useful info like tides, wind history, etc. Membership is $120 per
year, or $100 for the first time members, if you go through this link http://ikitesurf.com/kiteisland
weather.com
- hour-by-hour and radar functions are very useful to watch the storms.
Their wind forecast is a little off , but after a while it's easy to
spot the trends (for example, anything with south component is usually
underestimated by at least 5 mph).
noaa marine - excellent general wind forecast - it's not localized at all. This forecast is in text format, but click here to see a graphical representation of this text.
Forecasting services are never perfect, so there is always a chance
that lessons may not be carried out even if we posted a schedule.
However, we try our best to avoid these situations - most of the time
we succeed.
After you reserve a lesson, please always check
back to see the status - it will be posted on the schedule item under
the "meeting time" section.
Tags: schedule, forecast, weather
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Last update: 2009-08-01 06:06
Author: Green Hat Kiteboarding
Revision: 1.0
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