Ben Quinn of Brisbane Storm Chasers has kindly added the New Zealand domain to it's selection of great GFS maps.
What's available...
Instability Charts
SFC Lifted Index
Best (4 Layer) Lifted Index
SFC CAPE
ML CAPE
Cross Totals Index
Vertical Totals Index
Total Totals Index
SWEAT Index
Potential Instability
K Index
Shear Charts
1km Storm Relative Helecity
3km Storm Relative Helecity
Wind Gusts Surface
Probability Charts
Supercell Probability
Storm Probability
Pressure Level Charts
Temperature
2m | 925mb | 850mb | 700mb | 500mb | 300mb
Temperature & Streamlines
2m | 925mb | 850mb | 700mb | 500mb | 300mb
Wind Speed & Streamlines
10m | 925mb | 850mb | 700mb | 500mb | 300mb
Wind Speed & Vectors
10m | 925mb | 850mb | 700mb | 500mb | 300mb
Temperature, Wind Barbs & Geopotential Height
850mb | 700mb | 500mb | 300mb
Relative Humidity & Wind Barbs
2m | 925mb | 850mb | 700mb | 500mb | 300mb
Dew Point
2m | 975mb | 950mb | 925mb | 900mb | 850mb
Relative Humidity
2m | 975mb | 950mb | 925mb | 900mb | 850mb | 800mb
Cloud Cover
Total Cloud Cover
High Cloud Cover
Middle Cloud Cover
Low Cloud Cover
Surface and Precipitation Charts
MSL Pressure and Prev 3hr Precip
Assorted
Precipitable Water
Click the map for a forecast sounding for that selected point. There is also a 'raincast' at the top showing accumulated precipitation for a selected amount of time.
Check it out here!: http://nz.bsch.com.au/stormcast.html
BSCH adds New Zealand maps
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BSCH adds New Zealand maps
This is the best news for us weather nuts since 7mins radar scans. I have been wanting this for the past 5 years since I lived in Sydney for a summer and was using this site.
Fantastic!!!!! Well done and thank you.
Fantastic!!!!! Well done and thank you.
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Re: BSCH adds New Zealand maps
Maybe an idea if someone could do a sticky explaining how to read the sounding maps,i for one dont fully understand how they work
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Been looking at them for a week now, I got the feeling that the models runs seem to be outdated a little bit
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Re: BSCH adds New Zealand maps
This is good news, now I might just have to learn how to read them properly
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Re: BSCH adds New Zealand maps
Yes great news
Thanks Ben!
Thanks Ben!
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