Weather
Overview
There are many excellent sources of weather data and soaring forecasts available on the internet that lend themselves to creating your total picture of the weather.
In the eyes of the FAA, only one of the following sources are approved methods to receive your weather briefing:
(800) WX.BRIEF
This is a phone call with a live person at a Flight Service Station regarding the specifics of your flight.
Online
Real Time Lightning MapStrikes of the last 60 minutes are shown. The color of filled circles represent the age of strikes up to 60 minutes. Brand new lightning strikes have a red circle which gets smaller and disappears when it gets older than 30 seconds. The newest strikes are yellow. The older they get, the darker the color. Dark brown is equal to almost 60 minutes. Those strikes will vanish soon.
Pre-Flight BriefingYou can now get "fully briefed" online for weather information and temporary flight restrictions. By logging into your free account with the Flight Service Station contract provider (Martin Marietta), your viewing of the content is now recorded. Read More...
Current Conditions - METARS
Enter the following airport identifiers to see the current conditions around SCOH and Houston:
K11R Brenham
KDWH David Wayne Hooks
KSGR Sugarland
KIAH Houston Intercontiental
Soaring Forecasts
Radar
NOAA National Weather Service
Houston Area Briefings
National Weather Service Audio & visual briefing updated multiple times daily
Intellicast - Waller TX
Weather Underground - Waller, TX
Dr Jack's Soaring Forecast
Kevin Ford's Soaring Forecast
The Soaring Society of American has more information on weather including Tutorials, links, texts and news. More..
Learn About Soaring Weather
