Heres a few visual links, I like these for quick no fooling around. The GOES satellites are putting out tons of great info.
Between these two, I don't know which one is more accurate. (If anyone does, please let us know here.)
Best regards,
MH
The purpose of this post is for everyone to start posting their websites they turn to for understanding weather, earthquakes, and other natural phenomena that affect us here in and around SB. The Zaca fire is what led me to Edhat which was convenient to get info casually, however, as we all know it can get overloaded making access impossible. Last year when the Edhat blackout happened, I resorted to beefing up my personal set of links. Thanks to John setting up this forum to discussion. I appreciate intelligent discussion, I disdain the army of trolls on Edhat, and I'm a "live and let live" and "let's agree to disagree" kind of person.
1. California Earthquake activity, and Santa Barbara Quad:Comment: If someone could locate and post a seismograph link to our area, that would be great. I'm sure there's one at UCSB.2. California Fire Incidents via US Forest Service:
There usually is a delay between when smoke is first spotted and when fire is named and starts showing up as an incident. this is where to go to get the updated perimeter maps of a fire which are posted in the morning and sometimes updated at the end of the day.
3. California Fire Detection MapOnce you click this, you'll then need to click the JPEG image button then click the image to enlarge the map. This just shows detected hotspots all over the state. You can access the really cool satellite showing smoke from all the fires. You can find them on your own. JW has posted the higher resolution hotspot maps from a mapping site (geomac I believe). Geomac was a little tedious for me so I stopped using.4. National Situational Awareness Map
I found this one during the Thomas Fire which compiles hotspot detects and puts them on an area topo map. I really liked it. Because there are no fires in our area it just looks like a topo map. I used this map to assess the Thomas Fire risk for my neighborhood.
5. Southwest Regional Doppler Radar and Vandenburg DopplerIf you what to loop them, select that option. This SW map is good for seeing what's coming our way, then the Vandenberg map tells you what may hit you in the next 30 min. There are others that work too, but this is what I check first.
6. Space Weather and SunspotsThese give updates on coronal mass ejections, and image of the sunspots on the sun, and plots of the sun spot count. Based on sunspot counts, we are entering a new grand solar minimum. Solar minimums, especially grand solar minimums, result in global cooling via increased cloud cover. Our current sunspot numbers are lower than the 1970's when the media when crazy about the "Coming New Ice Age" I'll probably put those links in a separate post. It will provoke intelligent discussion, but it will also release the Kraken in terms of trolls. I once posted one comment on Edhat related to this, and I should have just said that I like torturing puppies instead.7. Cascade Volcanic Activity and Mount ShastaThe first link shows the earthquake activity for the Cascade volcanos. You can use this website to link to seismographs on the individual mountains or see the earthquake trend. Currently Mount Saint Helens is perking up an ongoing series of earthquake clusters. The second link is the live webcam for the fairest Volcano of them all, Mount Shasta. I'm from Northern California, and Shasta is my second home.
The purpose of this post is for everyone to start posting their websites they turn to for understanding weather, earthquakes, and other natural phenomena that affect us here in and around SB. The Zaca fire is what led me to Edhat which was convenient to get info casually, however, as we all know it can get overloaded making access impossible. Last year when the Edhat blackout happened, I resorted to beefing up my personal set of links. Thanks to John setting up this forum to discussion. I appreciate intelligent discussion, I disdain the army of trolls on Edhat, and I'm a "live and let live" and "let's agree to disagree" kind of person.
1. California Earthquake activity, and Santa Barbara Quad:Comment: If someone could locate and post a seismograph link to our area, that would be great. I'm sure there's one at UCSB.2. California Fire Incidents via US Forest Service:
There usually is a delay between when smoke is first spotted and when fire is named and starts showing up as an incident. this is where to go to get the updated perimeter maps of a fire which are posted in the morning and sometimes updated at the end of the day.
3. California Fire Detection MapOnce you click this, you'll then need to click the JPEG image button then click the image to enlarge the map. This just shows detected hotspots all over the state. You can access the really cool satellite showing smoke from all the fires. You can find them on your own. JW has posted the higher resolution hotspot maps from a mapping site (geomac I believe). Geomac was a little tedious for me so I stopped using.
4. National Situational Awareness Map
I found this one during the Thomas Fire which compiles hotspot detects and puts them on an area topo map. I really liked it. Because there are no fires in our area it just looks like a topo map. I used this map to assess the Thomas Fire risk for my neighborhood.
5. Southwest Regional Doppler Radar and Vandenburg DopplerIf you what to loop them, select that option. This SW map is good for seeing what's coming our way, then the Vandenberg map tells you what may hit you in the next 30 min. There are others that work too, but this is what I check first.
6. Space Weather and SunspotsThese give updates on coronal mass ejections, and image of the sunspots on the sun, and plots of the sun spot count. Based on sunspot counts, we are entering a new grand solar minimum. Solar minimums, especially grand solar minimums, result in global cooling via increased cloud cover. Our current sunspot numbers are lower than the 1970's when the media when crazy about the "Coming New Ice Age" I'll probably put those links in a separate post. It will provoke intelligent discussion, but it will also release the Kraken in terms of trolls. I once posted one comment on Edhat related to this, and I should have just said that I like torturing puppies instead.7. Cascade Volcanic Activity and Mount ShastaThe first link shows the earthquake activity for the Cascade volcanos. You can use this website to link to seismographs on the individual mountains or see the earthquake trend. Currently Mount Saint Helens is perking up an ongoing series of earthquake clusters. The second link is the live webcam for the fairest Volcano of them all, Mount Shasta. I'm from Northern California, and Shasta is my second home.
The purpose of this post is for everyone to start posting their websites they turn to for understanding weather, earthquakes, and other natural phenomena that affect us here in and around SB. The Zaca fire is what led me to Edhat which was convenient to get info casually, however, as we all know it can get overloaded making access impossible. Last year when the Edhat blackout happened, I resorted to beefing up my personal set of links. Thanks to John setting up this forum to discussion. I appreciate intelligent discussion, I disdain the army of trolls on Edhat, and I'm a "live and let live" and "let's agree to disagree" kind of person.
1. California Earthquake activity, and Santa Barbara Quad:Comment: If someone could locate and post a seismograph link to our area, that would be great. I'm sure there's one at UCSB.2. California Fire Incidents via US Forest Service:
There usually is a delay between when smoke is first spotted and when fire is named and starts showing up as an incident. this is where to go to get the updated perimeter maps of a fire which are posted in the morning and sometimes updated at the end of the day.
3. California Fire Detection MapOnce you click this, you'll then need to click the JPEG image button then click the image to enlarge the map. This just shows detected hotspots all over the state. You can access the really cool satellite showing smoke from all the fires. You can find them on your own. JW has posted the higher resolution hotspot maps from a mapping site (geomac I believe). Geomac was a little tedious for me so I stopped using.
4. National Situational Awareness Map
I found this one during the Thomas Fire which compiles hotspot detects and puts them on an area topo map. I really liked it. Because there are no fires in our area it just looks like a topo map. I used this map to assess the Thomas Fire risk for my neighborhood.
5. Southwest Regional Doppler Radar and Vandenburg DopplerIf you what to loop them, select that option. This SW map is good for seeing what's coming our way, then the Vandenberg map tells you what may hit you in the next 30 min. There are others that work too, but this is what I check first.
6. Space Weather and SunspotsThese give updates on coronal mass ejections, and image of the sunspots on the sun, and plots of the sun spot count. Based on sunspot counts, we are entering a new grand solar minimum. Solar minimums, especially grand solar minimums, result in global cooling via increased cloud cover. Our current sunspot numbers are lower than the 1970's when the media when crazy about the "Coming New Ice Age" I'll probably put those links in a separate post. It will provoke intelligent discussion, but it will also release the Kraken in terms of trolls. I once posted one comment on Edhat related to this, and I should have just said that I like torturing puppies instead.7. Cascade Volcanic Activity and Mount ShastaThe first link shows the earthquake activity for the Cascade volcanos. You can use this website to link to seismographs on the individual mountains or see the earthquake trend. Currently Mount Saint Helens is perking up an ongoing series of earthquake clusters. The second link is the live webcam for the fairest Volcano of them all, Mount Shasta. I'm from Northern California, and Shasta is my second home.
The purpose of this post is for everyone to start posting their websites they turn to for understanding weather, earthquakes, and other natural phenomena that affect us here in and around SB. The Zaca fire is what led me to Edhat which was convenient to get info casually, however, as we all know it can get overloaded making access impossible. Last year when the Edhat blackout happened, I resorted to beefing up my personal set of links. Thanks to John setting up this forum to discussion. I appreciate intelligent discussion, I disdain the army of trolls on Edhat, and I'm a "live and let live" and "let's agree to disagree" kind of person.
1. California Earthquake activity, and Santa Barbara Quad:Comment: If someone could locate and post a seismograph link to our area, that would be great. I'm sure there's one at UCSB.2. California Fire Incidents via US Forest Service:
There usually is a delay between when smoke is first spotted and when fire is named and starts showing up as an incident. this is where to go to get the updated perimeter maps of a fire which are posted in the morning and sometimes updated at the end of the day.
3. California Fire Detection MapOnce you click this, you'll then need to click the JPEG image button then click the image to enlarge the map. This just shows detected hotspots all over the state. You can access the really cool satellite showing smoke from all the fires. You can find them on your own. JW has posted the higher resolution hotspot maps from a mapping site (geomac I believe). Geomac was a little tedious for me so I stopped using.
4. National Situational Awareness Map
I found this one during the Thomas Fire which compiles hotspot detects and puts them on an area topo map. I really liked it. Because there are no fires in our area it just looks like a topo map. I used this map to assess the Thomas Fire risk for my neighborhood.
5. Southwest Regional Doppler Radar and Vandenburg DopplerIf you what to loop them, select that option. This SW map is good for seeing what's coming our way, then the Vandenberg map tells you what may hit you in the next 30 min. There are others that work too, but this is what I check first.
6. Space Weather and SunspotsThese give updates on coronal mass ejections, and image of the sunspots on the sun, and plots of the sun spot count. Based on sunspot counts, we are entering a new grand solar minimum. Solar minimums, especially grand solar minimums, result in global cooling via increased cloud cover. Our current sunspot numbers are lower than the 1970's when the media when crazy about the "Coming New Ice Age" I'll probably put those links in a separate post. It will provoke intelligent discussion, but it will also release the Kraken in terms of trolls. I once posted one comment on Edhat related to this, and I should have just said that I like torturing puppies instead.7. Cascade Volcanic Activity and Mount ShastaThe first link shows the earthquake activity for the Cascade volcanos. You can use this website to link to seismographs on the individual mountains or see the earthquake trend. Currently Mount Saint Helens is perking up an ongoing series of earthquake clusters. The second link is the live webcam for the fairest Volcano of them all, Mount Shasta. I'm from Northern California, and Shasta is my second home.
I'll figure out the old post editing later.
The purpose of this post is for everyone to start posting their websites they turn to for understanding weather, earthquakes, and other natural phenomena that affect us here in and around SB. The Zaca fire is what led me to Edhat which was convenient to get info casually, however, as we all know it can get overloaded making access impossible. Last year when the Edhat blackout happened, I resorted to beefing up my personal set of links. Thanks to John setting up this forum to discussion. I appreciate intelligent discussion, I disdain the army of trolls on Edhat, and I'm a "live and let live" and "let's agree to disagree" kind of person.
Thanks for everyone's input. I've cleaned things up and organized it. The nominal order is: Weather, Fire, Earthquakes, Sun Activity, and Volcanoes. I'll add more links as they are suggested, and I'll work to keep the format clean.
Shasta Guy1. Weather LinksSouthwest Regional Doppler Radar and Vandenburg Doppler. You can select the option to loop them to get an idea of trend where the rain bands will go. This is important if heavy precipitation is on the way.This is a 8km animated IR map of the western US which gives an idea what may be coming our way in the next 24-48 hrs. Things change a lot, and it can give a good idea how the rain will interact with ridge behind us.
This is a really nice multi-map of weather
Intellicast - http://www.intellicast.com/National/Satellite/Visible.aspx?location=USCA1017&enlarge=trueWind prediction map by Caltopo, with optional overlays for many things including terrain and maps of past fires. A little bit slow to load at first but very information.
https://caltopo.com/map.html#ll=34.50761,-119.54558&z=12&b=hyb&a=modis_mp,wxd_wspd-01,wx
Another real-time wind map by Windy.com, with overlay options. This one is animated and has a different (and more attractive) interface than the Caltopo map. (Originally posted to SBitz.net by "Section Make8R" in December):
https://www.windy.com/overlays?gfs,950h,34.153,-119.844,11,m:eCvacPS
In depth weather discussionhttp://weatherwest.com/archives/6072#disqus_thread
2. Fire Links
There usually is a delay between when smoke is first spotted and when fire is named and starts showing up as an incident. this is where to go to get the updated perimeter maps of a fire which are posted in the morning and sometimes updated at the end of the day.
California Fire Detection MapOnce you click this, you'll then need to click the JPEG image button then click the image to enlarge the map. This just shows detected hotspots all over the state.
National Situational Awareness MapI found this one during the Thomas Fire which compiles hotspot detects and puts them on an area topo map. I really liked it. Because there are no fires in our area it just looks like a topo map. I used this map to assess the Thomas Fire risk for my neighborhood.
3. Earthquake activity, and Santa Barbara Quad:
Here are earthquake maps. If you feel a shake, check these out because it might have been nearby.Here is a map of USGS live seismographs in CA. There are none in the SB area, but there are lots to choose from. Just click on one of the dots, then click on the tiny graph to make it a full page.
4. Space Weather and Sunspots
These give updates on coronal mass ejections, and image of the sunspots on the sun, and plots of the sun spot count. Based on sunspot counts, we are entering a new grand solar minimum. Solar minimums, especially grand solar minimums, result in global cooling via increased cloud cover. Our current sunspot numbers are lower than the 1970's when the media when crazy about the "Coming New Ice Age" I'll probably put those links in a separate post. It will provoke intelligent discussion, but it will also release the Kraken in terms of trolls. I once posted one comment on Edhat related to this, and I should have just said that I like torturing puppies instead.
5. Cascade Volcanic Activity and Mount Shasta
The first link shows the earthquake activity for the Cascade volcanos. You can use this website to link to seismographs on the individual mountains or see the earthquake trend. Currently Mount Saint Helens is perking up an ongoing series of earthquake clusters. The second link is the live webcam for the fairest Volcano of them all, Mount Shasta. I'm from Northern California, and Shasta is my second home.
Heres a few visual links, I like these for quick no fooling around. The GOES satellites are putting out tons of great info.
Santa Barbara Weather Links and other Natural Phenomena HereThe purpose of this post is for everyone to start posting their websites they turn to for understanding weather, earthquakes, and other natural phenomena that affect us here in and around SB. The Zaca fire is what led me to Edhat which was convenient to get info casually, however, as we all know it can get overloaded making access impossible. Last year when the Edhat blackout happened, I resorted to beefing up my personal set of links. Thanks to John setting up this forum to discussion. I appreciate intelligent discussion, I disdain the army of trolls on Edhat, and I'm a "live and let live" and "let's agree to disagree" kind of person.Thanks for everyone's input. I've cleaned things up and organized it. The nominal order is: Weather, Rainfall & Reservoir data, Webcams, Fire, Earthquakes, Sun Activity, and Volcanoes, . I'll add more links as they are suggested, and I'll work to keep the format clean.Some links you'll need to paste in your browser, sorry.Shasta Guy1. Weather LinksSouthwest Regional Doppler Radar and Vandenburg Doppler. You can select the option to loop them to get an idea of trend where the rain bands will go. This is important if heavy precipitation is on the way.This is a 8km animated IR map of the western US which gives an idea what may be coming our way in the next 24-48 hrs. Things change a lot, and it can give a good idea how the rain will interact with ridge behind us.
This is a really nice multi-map of weather
Intellicast - http://www.intellicast.com/National/Satellite/Visible.aspx?location=USCA1017&enlarge=trueWind prediction map by Caltopo, with optional overlays for many things including terrain and maps of past fires. A little bit slow to load at first but very information.
https://caltopo.com/map.html#ll=34.50761,-119.54558&z=12&b=hyb&a=modis_mp,wxd_wspd-01,wx
Another real-time wind map by Windy.com, with overlay options. This one is animated and has a different (and more attractive) interface than the Caltopo map. (Originally posted to SBitz.net by "Section Make8R" in December):
https://www.windy.com/overlays?gfs,950h,34.153,-119.844,11,m:eCvacPS
Accuweather:Weather in Motion:In depth weather discussionHeres a few visual links, I like these for quick no fooling around. The GOES satellites are putting out tons of great info.The next one is the approximate weather map, highs N lows etc, which helps me to "somewhat" figure things out.
2. Santa Barbara HydrologyThis is a regional interactive rainfall map from Ventura County via JW:It shows SB County and the main Southern CA counties, with lots of options including those in the "three dots" (...) menu at the top-left. Choose the accumulation time that you want, and zoom in on the Santa Barbara area. It's really deluxe in my opinion.Santa Barbara County Rainfall MapsCounty rainfall totals and reservoir levels:3. WebcamsThis link will take you to traffic cams in our area. You may need to move the map and expand the Santa Barbara area. You then select the camera icon you want. Linking to individual cameras does not work.Santa Barbara County Fire Webcams:HPWREN Web Santa Ynez Peak4. Fire Links
There usually is a delay between when smoke is first spotted and when fire is named and starts showing up as an incident. this is where to go to get the updated perimeter maps of a fire which are posted in the morning and sometimes updated at the end of the day.
California Fire Detection MapOnce you click this, you'll then need to click the JPEG image button then click the image to enlarge the map. This just shows detected hotspots all over the state.
National Situational Awareness MapI found this one during the Thomas Fire which compiles hotspot detects and puts them on an area topo map. I really liked it. Because there are no fires in our area it just looks like a topo map. I used this map to assess the Thomas Fire risk for my neighborhood.I found this twitter account to have the best live coverage of the actual Thomas fire around. They had a webcam on their tower and were monitoring and summarizing radio traffic.
5. Earthquake activity, and Santa Barbara Quad:Here are earthquake maps. If you feel a shake, check these out because it might have been nearby.Here is a map of USGS live seismographs in CA. There are none in the SB area, but there are lots to choose from. Just click on one of the dots, then click on the tiny graph to make it a full page.6. Space Weather and SunspotsThese give updates on coronal mass ejections, and image of the sunspots on the sun, and plots of the sun spot count. Based on sunspot counts, we are entering a new grand solar minimum. Solar minimums, especially grand solar minimums, result in global cooling via increased cloud cover. Our current sunspot numbers are lower than the 1970's when the media when crazy about the "Coming New Ice Age" I'll probably put those links in a separate post. It will provoke intelligent discussion, but it will also release the Kraken in terms of trolls. I once posted one comment on Edhat related to this, and I should have just said that I like torturing puppies instead.7. Cascade Volcanic Activity and Mount ShastaThe first link shows the earthquake activity for the Cascade volcanos. You can use this website to link to seismographs on the individual mountains or see the earthquake trend. Currently Mount Saint Helens is perking up an ongoing series of earthquake clusters. The second link is the live webcam for the fairest Volcano of them all, Mount Shasta. I'm from Northern California, and Shasta is my second home.