Arizona Regional Soaring Forecast

Ewan's forecast page at University of Arizona.

XC Skies Soaring and Forecast

Interactive soaring forecast maps and tools for virtually every flyable location on planet Earth.

The Soaring Predictor

Gives detailed soaring forecasts for the next coming week. Click on "Southern Arizona" for our sites.

NOAA's FSL soundings page

Produces skew-T charts from balloon soundings, starting from any time and predicting out any number of hours, for any sounding location. To see what it can do, choose the "Op40" (short term) model, start time "Latest", number of hours "8" and Site "TUS". There's a link to tutorials about skew-T charts at the bottom of the page.

Dr. Jack's BLIPMAPS

(Boundary Layer Information Prediction Maps). Graphical thermal soaring forecasts. The NAM model covers up to 72 hours. Or, try the RUC model here for 12 hour soaring forecasts. Free, but registration is required.