Doing some idle searches on extreme wind conditions in the Columbia River Gorge last night and I stumbled across a wind surfer web site that has active wind conditions all over the place. They have gathered a whole bunch of small weather stations onto their web site so wind surfers could find nice places to play that is also a gold mine for drone pilots who want to know what the conditions are like at least at ground level. This is not going to give you flight conditions 400' in the air but does give a general idea of what to expect in the area you wish to fly. Wind surfers don't care as much about what is going on above their heads while they are playing on the water surface.
I have had a Davis weather station at my house for over a decade and I recall getting an email once from a wind surfer asking if they could tap my Weather Underground feed for their web site but that was quite a few years ago and I never thought about what they did with it until I started looking at the interactive maps on this web site. Sure enough they have my station on their maps as a reference for folks wind surfing on Vancouver Lake.
Wind Finder
The map in this case is centered on the Columbia River Gorge since I fly up there a lot but coverage is quite extensive on their interactive map. I did a quick search but didn't any posts on here that referenced this web site so I though it might help some folks out.
I have had a Davis weather station at my house for over a decade and I recall getting an email once from a wind surfer asking if they could tap my Weather Underground feed for their web site but that was quite a few years ago and I never thought about what they did with it until I started looking at the interactive maps on this web site. Sure enough they have my station on their maps as a reference for folks wind surfing on Vancouver Lake.
Wind Finder
The map in this case is centered on the Columbia River Gorge since I fly up there a lot but coverage is quite extensive on their interactive map. I did a quick search but didn't any posts on here that referenced this web site so I though it might help some folks out.