• PAGASA(Philippine atmospheric geophysical and astronomical services administration)weather branch homepage -weather bureau of the Philippines(Phil. gov't)
• Weathernews philippines- private weather bureau 

• Joint Typhoon Warning Center Products(typhoon forecasts and prognostic reasoning)
• search bulletins by WMO headers(observations also searchable by four letter ICAO)
• search bulletins by WMO headers(backup)
• latest tropical cyclone satellite fix(every 3 hrs.)
• TC model + TC warnings (JMA/Beijing/Philippines warnings: 00,06,12,18Z; HKO warnings: 01,04,07,10,13,16,19,22Z; JTWC warnings: 03,09,15,21Z)
• Significant Tropical Weather Advisory For The Western North Pacific Area (180 To Malay Peninsula)
• Typhoon 99-Philippine website on tropical cyclones(based in Bicol region) or alternate site
• Tropical cyclone strike probabilities for various Phil. cities
• Northwest Pacific Tropical Cyclone and Weather Information
• Hurricanes, Typhoons & Tropical Cyclones worlwide

• current weather-Philippine synoptic observations for many stations.
• METAR reports(RPVM-Masbate, RPLL-Ninoy Aquino Inter-National Airport, RPLB-Subic Bay Weather Station)-Hourly observations for these three stations(airport).
• Manila --CNN ||intellicast ||The Weather Channel ||usa today ||Washington Post ||Rain or Shine Weather
• Baguio--Washington Post ||CNN
• Quezon--Washington Post ||CNN
• Davao--Washington Post ||CNN

• Npmoc Hawaii GMS images. GMS IR- sector A, B C, D , Sector A , Sector B. Note: Sector A and B= Northern hemisphere. Sector A from about India to Japan, Sector B from Japan to Hawaii/Aleutians.  Updated regulary.
• satellite pictures from PAGASA(IR and visible). Enhanced and colors give an idea of rainfall rates.  If the site is too slow, you may want to try during non-peak hours.
• South-East Asia and Western Pacific S-VISSR JPEG image and
  MPEG animation ( 2days ~800KB) from kochi U Japan.
• GMS IR from nottingham(every 3 hrs.)

Weather Chart/map/NWP(Numerical Weather Prediction)

• Weather and Forecast Maps
• Honolulu Standard Heights Facsimilie Charts
• MISC. FAX Charts

Winds

See GRIB Data for info on present and forecast wind field in the area-many levels. NOGAPS Weather maps also contains wind info.

Both links are only for surface winds.

• latest ocean observation of vicinity
• Ocean Surface Winds - JTWC Forecast Area (satellite-derived winds)

Other info

To deal with the raw synoptic and upper air data directly, try this link to dowload digital atmosphere. Upper air data can also be retrieved by WMO headers here.

• sst(sea surface temp), ground temp, and cloud top temp
• Meteorological Services at Tiawan
• National Weather Service Tiyan, Guam

mostly non-real-time sites

• Colorado State U-tropical meteorology
• WMO FTP Directory-Data for several World Meteorological Organization publications
• UIUC Cloud Catalog
• surface weather codes(Florida State U)


Mostly climate
NCDC-National Climatic Data Center Asheville, N.C., USA-probably also have climatic data for the Philippines


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