In 2000 CraginS posted a simple web page of links to helpful weather forecast sites. Hosting was on a local DC area internet service provider, and coding was basic HTML to be easily accessible with 1200 baud dial-up internet access. The hosting has changed twice (2002 & 2008), and is now at Google Sites. Coding is now controlled by Google's managed site interface. Updates have been based on adding newly discovered sites, updates to broken links, and suggestions from users. In 2019 CraginS transitioned the site from personal management to a shared site with selected CHGPA members as co-administrators.
Update Summaries, newest at top.
February 1, 2020. Web site maintenance, correcting and removing links
January 26, 2019. Added links for the Holfuy Wind Meter reports at Woodstock and The Pulpit to the top of the Winds table.
June 26, 2018. Updated to correct Windfinder link for Hyner View.
November 29, 2017. Added Wunderground link for McConnellsburg (Tuscarora Summit).
July 3, 2017. Added Windy.com to the Winds table.
April 21, 2017. Updated NOAA Recent Observations for Winchester from noaa.gov to weather.gov URL.
April 15, 2017. Deleted the Meteograms column, since Weather Underground killed theirs. Moved Unisys meteograms into City Forecast column
February 24, 2017. Updated Weather Underground links after the scoundrels changed the URLs again.
September 8, 2016, Updated the NOAA Recent Observations links (all had gone dead) and also added NOAA's Hourly Forecast links to the Hourly column.
May 6, 2016. Retired Highland Aerosports & Ridgely MD links. We miss you guys.
May the Fourth, 2016. Removed WeatherSparks links, which no longer provided useful wind information. Thanks, John.
August 30, 2015. Moved Weather Underground tiles to their own table.
May 5, 2015. Removed WeatherUnderground Classic links, which no longer work. Added AccuWeather Hourly links in the column with TWC Hourly.
January 18, 2015. Added Windfinder links.
December 28, 2014, Updated out-of-date broken links.
December 21, 2013, Added Earth Winds link to top row of Winds table.
April 11, 2013, Updated links to FAA's ASOS/AWOS and ADDS sites on Other Recommended Weather Pages.
August 25, 2012, Added links for books at Amazon.
March 29, 2012, Added hint.fm wind map
November 5, 2011, Added Orlando FL (Quest, Wallaby), Rising Fawn GA (Lookout Mountain), Kill Devil Hills NC (Kitty Hawk Kites), and Ellenville NY (Ellenville Flight Park, Mountain WIngs, Fly HIgh NY) to a Flight Parks section at the bottom of the main table; updated Unisys Weather links for Skew-T plots and meteograms, added linked table of contents at top of page.
June 17, 2011, Added Windmapper, Wundermap, and Weatherspark links.
February 6, 2011, Added links to Weather Underground "Classic View" pages following WU update of page design.
March 7, 2010. Added NOAA CWSU maps with current condition hover details.
December 31, 2008, Moved hosting to sites.google.com. Organized content into main and sub pages.
October 10, 2008, Fixed the broken FAA ASOS link. Changed Current Conditions for Shannon Aprt, Fredericksburg, to Stafford VA. Removed link to ToweringQ's page which is gone. Changed selected local forecasts for Oregon Ridge to Timonium and Cockeysville for more accurate reporting.
November 11, 2007, Changed Weather Underground local banner from Woodstock to Winchester, because Woodstock wind direction data was consistently inaccurate.
October 28, 2007, added WeatherUnderground stickers for current conditions and sun and moon times.
April 14, 2007, added MHGA link.
April 23, 2006, Updated Flight(b)Log Ego Link.
March 4, 2006, Updated Intellicast and Skew T links.
March 26, 2005. Re-arranged layout, repaired broken links.
June 9, 2004. Repaired broken links.
April 8, 2004. Removed bad daily forecast links.
April 29, 2004. Added Alek Beynenson's NOAA ARL Accumulator Page.
March 13, 2004. Improved organization by site, added more locality forecasts.
March 7, 2004. Added more Meteograms, new clean-up.
January 31, 2004. Cleaned up dead links, moved to new server, updated e-mail address.
June 22, 2003. Continued clean-up of TWC links in Weather Maps table. Removed dead link to MHGA. Removed link to Jim Keller's weekend forecast, which he no longer updates.
June 20. 2003. Another attempt to clean up the Weather Channel maps links.
June 14, 2003. Updated Weather Channel map page links (again!), linking full pages instead of just maps. Sorry about that, Chief. Page now fails W3C validation due to details in Intellicast link URL.
August 23, 2002. Updated weather map links for The Weather Channel.
June 23, 2002. Added Airsports Launch Code links to the Forecasts by Location table.
May 25, 2002. Reorganized Winds table and added NOAA Surface Winds forecast for three days (same data usd by Boater's Box). Added link to BLIPMAPS
April 21, 2002. Updated club links.
April 5, 2002. Updated links to the new format for NGM/MOS Meteograms at Weather Underground. Added Kevin Ford's Soarcast at the new site.
March 15, 2002. Corrected doctype specification and validated page code with W3C HTML Validator.
March 7, 2002. Changed to new ADDS link and added note on proper display.
January 19, 2002. Moved page to new internet service provider. Updated mailto: link for new e-mail address.
December 22, 2001. Replaced dead NOAA link in Winds table with Boaters Box link. Updated club name reference to the new biwingual CHGPA name.
November 25, 2001. Removed links to Soarcast from Texaas A&M University (because I never found it useful). If anyone was actually using this feature, e-mail me and I'll add it back to the page. Reorganized links to a more logical layout, related to major flying sites. Added links to The Weather Channel's hourly detail forecast.
July 29, 2001. Added new SkewT plot for Dulles. Brought code into compliance with HTML 4.0.
June 3, 2001. Added new surface map and SkewT plot for Dover. Removed Dover from Soarcast options.