Thursday, April 05, 2007

NOAA Joins with Universities to Launch Marine Weather Website

This week marked the launch of a new collaborative effort between NOAA and several universities that should have NC fishermen smiling. Their new marine weather web portal will be a gateway to access a variety of real-time marine observations, hazards and forecasts along the Carolina coastline and integrates real-time data from eight major providers including the National Weather Service (NWS); National Ocean Service; National Data Buoy Center; Coastal Ocean Research Monitoring Program; Carolina's Coastal Ocean Observing and Prediction System; United State Geological Survey, Federal Aviation Administration, Department of Defense, and The Skidaway Institute of Oceanography. The new portal provides access to current observations, land and sea surface temperatures, official NWS five day forecasts and warnings, radar data, wind speeds and directions, wind gusts, air pressure and coastal bathymetry for a distance of 250 nautical miles from the Carolina coastline. We've had our eyes on this project for about two years and are really excited about the sea surface temperature data. The new weather portal is available at www.weather.gov/carolinascoast.

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