Santa Monica Weather for Friday, 03-Sep-2010 00:53:26 PDT

Santa Monica Airport ATIS

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Van Nuys Airport ATIS

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Camrarillo Airport ATIS

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Live Web Cam From Will Rogers State Beach

This web cam is located mid-way along the route I've been taking on my lessons, so pretty much covers all the weather I'm likely to encounter during a flight.  Click on the pictures for a bigger view.  It's pretty cool.

Some Quick Links

The Aviation Digital Data Service - Interesting stuff, lots of Java interfaces to stuff like METAR, TAF, PIREPS and other data. Probably useful for planning longer flights.

Rainfall Radar from NOAA

False Color Clouds from NOAA

Four Hour Western USA Visible - From NOAA

This is what the satellite sees, so it gets dark at night.  This requires Java, so might not work in all browsers.  Go to Sun's Java Page, if you need to download the latest version of Java.

Java must be enabled for radar loops to display.

Reflective Radar from NOAA

This web page is designed to collect, in one place, and in real time, all the weather related resources that might be useful to someone who is flying out of Santa Monica Airport. It is a combination of information extracted from web pages using PERL scripts, linked images, java applets and entire embedded web pages.

Times in the METAR information, and on the satellite images are in Universal Time Code, or "Zulu" time, for example:  23:30 UTC or 2330Z.  Zulu time is the same as Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), and is 8 hours ahead of PST (Pacific Standard Time), or 7 hours ahead when Daylight Savings Time is in effect (PDT).  So, to convert FROM Zulu/UTC time, subtract eight hours, so 2330Z is 15:30 PST, or 3:30 PM PST.