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Weather can make or break your boating experience in NY Harbor.  Before casting off your lines, you can check out the following sources of weather information for NY Harbor:

 

NOAA National Weather Service

 

 Detailed analyses and forecasts from the professionals.  7-day forecast with a 3-day hourly forecast (click "Tabular Forecast" in lower right-hand corner of page).  Excellent hurricane tracking and wind speed probabilities.
 

Stevens Institute NYHOPS wind

 

Great for real time variations of speed and direction of wind within harbor
[need to convert m/sec to knots]
   

weather.com  

Wind forecasts are generally 5-10 knots too low.
 

intellicast.com

 

 10-day forecast

accuweather.com

No percentages given for rain.

 

ABC Local Metro Weather

 

"Real time" (within last 15-30 minutes) Doppler radar
 

NOAA VHF WX-1

 

Average the Long Island Sound and Coastal marine forecasts to estimate NYC forecast. Severe weather alerts can be obtained by monitoring WX-1 while underway.

Interactive radar

Click on Future arrow for next 5 hours.

 

Local conditions

 Click on sun symbol, then click on Local Conditions and then on desired location on the Locations drop-down menu for local weather and water conditions:
 


Use the controls in the upper left corner to zoom in or out and to pan around the map. Click on the sun icons for more local conditions information.

 Sailing vessels:  Wind shadows, wind speed fluctuations and velocity shifts near large commercial vessels and tall buildings.

 

Sunrise and Sunset times

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