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The pacific northwest is divided into several marine geographic zones by the national weather service. Make sure to check the zone forecast for the area you will be paddling in and the adjacent one if your near a zone border.
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The NDBC designs, develops, operates, and maintains a United States network of data collecting buoys and coastal stations. At this site you can see in nealry real time what the buoys or weather stations are reproting for weather conditions. The data that can seen at this site are: wind speed, wind gusts, atmospheric pressure, air temperature, water temperature, wave heights and wave periods.
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The Weather Channel has a really useful interactive weather map that has detailed current and future weather information. They also have an app for your smart phone.
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The goal of this project is to provide the public, Washington State Ferries, recreational boaters, and other marine interests with up-to-date information on weather conditions over the inland waters of Western Washington. To do so, weather observing equipment is being placed on Washington State ferries.
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This is where serious kayakers that paddle on the coast go for the big picture. Here you will find synoptic charts of the weather patterns across the Pacific Ocean. Anyone paddling on the coast should be familiar with how to interpret these.
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On surface maps you will often see station weather plots. Since meteorologists must convey a lot of information without using a lot of words, plots are used to describe the weather at a station for a specific time. When all stations are plotted on a map, a "picture" of where the high and low pressure areas are located, as well as the location of fronts, can be obtained.
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Weather Forecast products from Environment Canada.
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This is NOAA's wave forecasting site with great graphs of pacific swell conditions.
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Surf forecasts, surf reports and surf photos, beach break webcams for surfers, and kayak surfers.
You can even set up an automated email when conditions YOU set are just right, alerting you to totally rad surf conditions!
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Surf Reports, Surf Forecasts, Web Cams and Surfing Photos for Spots around the Globe.
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This is a fantastic and beautiful animated wind map and weather forecast for kiters, surfers, pilots, sailors and anyone else. You can switch between wind, waves, swell, swell period, pressure and others. Very cool tool to visualize the storms!