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<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF">  <font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=2 color=#000000> <h6>Weather Resources</h6> </p> <p>If you can read this, I know that you are not using a browser with frames. Since I don't see this material, it is possible for me to make coding errors in this 'no-frame' section. I'd like this to to be useful to you, and I would appreciate it if you would drop me a note if something is not working.</p> <p> This is a collection of links to pages of weather forecasting information that we use when planning a trip into the mountains around Vancouver. I am grateful to the sites that have posted this excellent information. Let me know if any of these links vanish, or of relevant new sites. Write to <a href="mailto:Ski (please type @ yourself) ballantyne.com">Skiing or Riding</a>. Please put <b>Backcountry BC</b> in the <b><i>Subject</i></b>.</p> <p>This page is easier to navidage in a browser that can display frames. Sorry, this is the only use of frames at this site.</p> <p> <b>Contents</b></p> <p><b><font color="#FF0000">Feature</font></b> How-to <a href="Plotting_GPS.html" target="_blank">plot GPS tracklogs and waypoints</a> on a topo map</p>  <table border=1><tr><td> <applet codebase="http://www7.counter.bloke.com/c/" code="Counter.class" width=75 height=20> <param name=URL value="http://www.ballantyne.com/contents.html"> <param name=reset value="1000"> <param name=img value="/c/default-white-black.gif"> <param name="showString" value="false"> </applet></td></tr></table>  <hr> <font color="#663300"><b>Mountain Cams</b></font><br> <a href="Whistler1.html">Whistler Pan #1</a><br> <a href="Whistler2.html">Whistler Pan #2</a><br> <a href="Whistler3.html">Whistler Pan #3</a><br> <a href="http://142.29.203.232/cgi-bin/jpg/image.cgi">Chilcotin-Tatla</a> Area<br> 3 dozen <a href="http://www.cascadeclimber.com/web_cams.htm" target="_blank">Pacific Mountain Cams</a> <span style="font-size: 64%;">This page takes a while to load</span><br> <a href="http://www.cypressmountain.com/CBRbaseCam.jpg">Cypress Bowl/Black Mt.</a> <font size="-2"></font><br> Mt. Rainier facing <a href="http://www.nps.gov/mora/cam/paradise.jpg">Wilson Headwall</a><br> <font color="#663300"><b>Vancouver Cams</b></font><br> <a href="http://www.katkam.ca/p.asp?what=currentjpg">From Above Burrard Bridge</a> <font size="-2"> excellent cam</font><br> <font size="-2">Key to <i>Above Burrard Bridge</i> <a href="VancouverCamKey.jpg"><i>Landmarks</i></a> (200 kb)<br> Burrard Bridge <a href="http://www.katkam.ca/">Archives</a></font><br> <a href="http://www.jericho.bc.ca/webcam/images/webcam.jpg">North Shore Mountains</a> <font size="-2"> from Jericho Beach. Mt. Strachan on the far left</font><br> <a href="http://www.portvancouver.com/images/webcam/Harbour_v.jpg?584">Lion's Gate Bridge</a> <br> <a href="Snug_Cove_Ferry.html">Snug Cove Ferry Berth</a> <br> <hr> <font color="#663300"><b>Forecasts</b></font><br> <a href="http://www.weatheroffice.com/scripts/nphshowarf.pl?html&1010.txt"> Alpine Forecast</a><br> <a href="http://www.weatheroffice.com/scripts/citygen.pl?city=cp-5&client=seymour_e&cmap=cp">Mt. Seymour Alpine 5-day Forecast</a> <span style="font-size: 64%;">winter season only</span><br> <a href="http://www.weatheroffice.ec.gc.ca/city/pages/bc-74_metric_e.html">YVR (airport) 5-day Forecast</a> <hr> <font color="#663300"><b>Surface Maps</b></font><br> <a href="http://www.opc.ncep.noaa.gov/UA/entire_UA.gif">World Surface Map</a><br> <a href="http://www.prh.noaa.gov/hnl/graphics/npac.gif">N. Pacific</a><br> <a href="http://www.atmos.washington.edu/mm5rt/gfsinit.html">Choose a LOOP</a> (>0.5 meg) <span style="font-size: 64%;">60-hour predictions</span><br> <font size="-2">Use these to anticipate when systems will arrive.</font><br> <a href="New_Snowfall.html" target="_blank">Recent Snowfall</a> maps.<br> <hr> <font color="#663300"><b>Jet Stream</b></font><br> <a href="Jet_Stream_Combined.html">Canada & USA</a> <hr> <font color="#663300"><b>Satellite Images</b></font><br> <a href="http://squall.sfsu.edu/scripts/gwir_big.html" target="_blank">Make your own IR loop</a> popup window.<br> <font size="-2">Use the above when there is no sunlight. Click the <b>Build Animation</b> button.</font><br> <a href="http://squall.sfsu.edu/scripts/gwvis_big.html" target="_blank">Make your own Visible light loop</a><br> <font size="-2">When there is sunlight on the Pacific, the visible light images show icefields and other landmarks as well as clouds. Click the <b>Build Animation</font></b><br> <a href="http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/west/animation/goeswestvis.html" target="_blank">GOES-10</a><br> <font size="-2">Same coverage as above, but GOES-10 animation shows huge a huge animation of the N. Pacific. The file is large and may choke your browser. On dialup go make coffee while this loads.</font><br> <font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=2 color=#FF0000>New</font> <a href="http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/us_comp/us_comp.html"><a href="http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/us_comp/us_comp.html" target="_blank">N. America Colour loop</a></a><br> <font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=2 color=#FF0000>New</font> <a href="http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/globe/cldspin.html" target="_blank">3-week colour globe</a> <hr> <font color="#663300"><b>Radar Animation</b></font><br> <a href="http://66.28.250.180/data/nids/ATX19_anim.gif?t=_0_t.gif?t=1049918307">Seattle to Sunshine Coast</a><br> <a href="http://www.weatheroffice.ec.gc.ca/radar/index_e.html?id=xsi">Environment Can. Radar</a><br> <hr> <font color="#663300"><b>Current Avy Bulletin</b></font> <br> Don't leave home without it. Take the transceiver, shovel and probe too.<br> <a href="http://www.avalanche.ca/default.aspx?DN=5,4,3,Documents" target="_blank">Recent bulletin for South Coast / BC</a> <br> And here is the bad news for this season:<br> <a href="http://www.avalanche.org/av-reports/index.html">Avalanche Reports</a><p> <div align="center"><font size="-2"> RELATED SITES WE FREQUENT <br> <b><a href="http://www.telemarktips.com/" target="_blank">TelemarkTips</a> News and Forum <br> <b><font color="#FF0000">NEW</font></b> The Message Board at <b><a href="http://www.clubtread.com/">ClubTread</a></b> encourages member to post pictures as well as trip reports. Good discussion here too. Orientated to hiking in the Pacific Northwest.<br> <a href="http://www.bivouac.com/" target="_blank">Canadian Mountain Encyclopedia</a><br> Please register and support this service. The information, photo essays and trip reports at this site are fantastic. </b><br> Please discover and support the <a href="http://www.wepbc.ca/index1.html">Wilderness Education Program</a>. Robert has provided some volunteer assistance to this worthy legacy of the work of John Clarke.<br> </font> </div> <hr> Thanks to all the sites that post this information.<br> If you use this site, we'd love to know the reason - or if you know of new and better sites, or spot problems here, please write to: <a href="mailto:Ski (please type @ yourself) ballantyne.com">Skiing or Riding</a>. 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