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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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