This is my AM soaring forecast routine

1. Forecast soundings:

(Often, one or the other of RUC and MAPS will not cover the whole day)

2. Blipmaps:

( I find height much more useful than strength. Don’t forget to subtract 200 fpm for the glider!)

(Someday, this may point us to a good lake breeze convergence)

(Good for seeing the possibility of strong thunderstorms)

3. General weather from ADDS

Prog charts (surface weather maps)

Dupage TAF (Look here for cirrus – not in the blipmaps. Type “kdpa” in the field. )

TAF map (good to see if TAF varies a lot over the region, but slow to load)

Winds ( I like the streamlines option)

Current visible satellite (Another place to look for cirrus)

Visible satellite loop (takes longer to load, but nice to see where things are going.)

4. NWS weather

Joliet weather 5 day forecast

Forecast discussion Really useful to see what’s going on.