Weather Radar - Best Sites

Here's my favorite:

http://radar.weather.gov/radar.php?rid=jua&product=N0R&overlay=11111111&loop=yes

Here's another one that shows more if you scroll down the page:

http://marquitosweather.com/cgi-bin/noaaport_satblast.pl

This is the best one I have found, and the one most of the pilots use at work.

http://www.wunderground.com/radar/radblast.asp?ID=JUA

You can get the radar feeds from down island at -- www.weathercarib.com
And also using the satellite motion loops should give you a better idea for STX

I know it wasn't what you were really asking for, but I like the NOAA C'sted Harbor buoy page for the 5-day graphs of wind direction and speed/gusts. (I don't care so much about air and water temps in this part of the hemisphere, but they've got that, too.) It's nice to have OTW readings for sailors.

http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=chsv3

I'd be interested in what else others rely on -- besides NOAA and Wunderground -- for local wind data.

IT

Thanks folks. Still hoping to find something awesome.

Still don't like the Puerto Rico radar as it is only good for STT, -or if you're flying that way, but not so much for STX, especially when the weather is coming from the south like it has recently. The weather buoy from Csted harbor is very interesting, thx.

Best I've found is still http://www.weather.com/weather/map/interactive/SCXX0001:1

The radar feeds from downisland are real time and accurate - the St Martin one even reaches close to STX.

Neil: I think you are looking for a radar out of the USVI, and I don't believe it exists. You need to deal with the Puerto Rico and St Maarten radars.

To see what's coming from the south try ABC radar (Curacao) at http://www.meteo.an/Img_Radar_ABC_Cappi_Still.asp

On the NOAA PR/VI radar page - choose the Long Range radar and you'll see as far as down island. To see any farther east than that you'd probably have to subscribe to a commercial weather service.

The new St Martin radar site is down, and apparently often so. It takes you to the Curacao site's radar, which doesn't cover the Antilles.

The weather.com "trupoint" map I have linked up above is still the most comprehensive, navigable, and helpful radar site I've seen, though it is about 3 hours old each time I view it -which isn't helpful. Apparently it is a new feature/technology that composites and crunches data from a number of sources.

I wonder why the USVI doesn't have it's own radar.
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I wonder why the USVI doesn't have it's own radar.
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So you've been here awhile, then?

IT

Some other weather info sites I use are:

http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/goes/east/tatl/flash-vis.html

http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/goes/east/carb/flash-ir2.html

http://www.windfinder.com/forecast/salt_river_bay#

There are others for additional info during hurricane season, as they track the potential storm cells then but don't have much info on them this time of year.