Forecasts for Bay Area Observing Sites

This is a temporary page. I would like to combine this with the TAC Sites Page.

Site	Clear Sky Clock	Current Conditions	Nearest TAF	6 Day Digital Forecast
Blue Canyon	climate	Blue Canyon		digital forecast
Fiddletown	climate	Mt Zion RAWS	Sacramento Executive	digital forecast
Coyote Park		Gilroy	San Jose Airport	digital forecast
Fremont Peak	Climate	Salinas Airport	Salinas Airport	digital forecast
Henry Coe	climate	Diablo Grande RAWS	San Jose Airport	digital forecast
Houge Park		San Jose Airport Los Gatos RAWS	San Jose Airport	digital forecast
Lake San Antonio		Las Tablas RAWS Paso Robles Airport	Paso Robles Airport	digital forecast
Lake Sonoma	climate	Healdsburg RAWS Sonoma Co Airport Northern CA 1km Vis Satellite	Sonoma Co Airport	digital forecast
Montebello OSP (permit site see TAC sites)	climate	Palo Alto Airport	San Francisco Airport	digital forecast
Mount Lassen		Portable @4500' Manzanita Lake		digital forecast
Pacheco State Park (see TAC sites)		San Luis Dam RAWS		digital forecast
Plettstone		Bear Valley(limited) Catheys Valley		digital forecast

Some Caveats:

• The digital forecast may not correctly account for the thickness of the cloud layer
• Salinas does not include clouds over 12,000 ft in its forecasts. SJC does.
• TAF decode

• http://stoivane.kapsi.fi/metar/

  Clouds

  NsNsNshshshs or VVhshshs or SKC or NSC or CLR

  NsNsNs: Cloud amount. One of the following: FEW: Few (1/8–2/8) SCT: Scattered (3/8–4/8) BKN: Broken (5/8–7/8) OVC: Overcast (8/8) VV: The sky is obscured. hshshs: Height of cloud base or the extent of vertical visibility (VV) in hundreds of feet above field elevation. If height was not measured, /// is used instead. SKC: Sky clear. NSC: No significant clouds. There are no clouds below 1500 m and no Cumulonimbus at any height. CLR: No clouds below 3600 m (used in automatic observations). If a cloud layer consists of Cumulonimbus or towering Cumulus, CB or TCU is appended after cloud base height.

  FEW010 SCT020CB BKN070