Albuquerque Soaring Association

Weather Links

AccuWeather
A great, easy to understand weather site. Just enter the city, state or ZIP code you're interested in. They provide hourly forecasts out to 15 days. Don't know if their crystal ball is really that clear, but it's better than nothing. This link was brought to you by Kevin Berger. Thanks Kevin!

Sandia Lab
This link will get you current weather, not daily, not hourly, but by the MINUTE. Sandia has an on-line reporting station that should give current conditions near the So. Eubank/Tijeras Arroyo dump slope site--for those days when you want to go sloping with dead mattresses and other discards. Also provides general wind conditions good for most of southern ABQ. The site will even tell you the current solar irradiance so you can figure how much sunscreen to put on.

AWS/KOBTV weather sites for Moriarty http://weather.weatherbug.com/NM/McIntosh-weather.html?zcode=z6286&zip=87032

RAP Surface Wind Chart
And, to interpret the symbols there visit here... 

From Richard Shagam, our resident "Howard Morgan ", here several good sites.

Windcast-NM
Intellicast has wind prediction maps for the next two days--enough time to decide whether to go sloping or thermalling (or stay home and build something)

The Weather Underground
A graph of trends in Albuquerque.

National Weather Service
Graphical forecast for McIntosh, NM (the sod farm): http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?CityName=Mc+Intosh&state=NM&site=ABQ&textField1=34.8523&textField2=-106.043&e=0&FcstType=graphical

Richard's Roof
Finally, check out the weather at Richard's house in Four Hills.

The Albuquerque Aerostat Association (otherwise known as the Hot Air Balloon Club) has a phone number that you can call for wind forecasts in the Rio Rancho area 891-1733. Rich Shagam says that the temperature, windspeed, and direction info that they give out pretty well correlates to the conditions at Jemez Dam.