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Wind & Satellite

Information

The winds around Toronto and Lake Simcoe prevail from the west. That means they blow from the west. The winds can really come from any direction. However, the most common direction is between north-west & south-west. If you want to get clean on shore wind, there are only a few locations that are close by. On shore means the wind is blowing from the water to the shore. You need to be very careful if the wind is not on shore. You could be blown away from the shore out to sea which is extremely dangerous if you don't know what you're doing.

Keswick and Willow Beach are my favourite locations. Both are very good launch sites. The water is quite shallow along both shores making it easy for beginners and beach starting.

Environment Canada

Some ways to get weather from Environment Canada:

Web

http://www.iwindsurf.com (the most accurate)

Barrie-Cam leaving lsws

E-Weather leaving lsws(Environment Canada)

Barrie Summary leaving lsws (Environment Canada)

24 Hour Retrospective leaving lsws (Environment Canada-can be slow sometimes)

http://www.navcanada.ca/flight/weather2/index_2E.htm leaving lsws(Weather for pilots in Canada)

http://www.meteomedia.com/ leaving lsws

http://www.intellicast.com/LocalWeather/World/UnitedStates/Midwest/Michigan/Detroit/Satellite/ leaving lsws (Satellite)

http://www.theweathernetwork.com/cities/can/toronto.htm leaving lsws (Weather Network)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/features/notebook/clouds2.shtml leaving lsws (Education-Cloud Types)

Phone

(416) 661-0123 General Weather

(416) 661-0104 Marine Weather (Summer only)

Radio

Using a weather radio leaving lsws, the weather is broadcast from Environment Canada weather office via the CN Tower 7/24. The weather tone alerts are tested on the first Wednesday of every month at 12 noon. The frequencies are:

  1. 162.400 MHz (works in Keswick & Sutton) *

  2. 162.425 MHz

  3. 162.450 MHz

  4. 162.475 MHz *

  5. 162.500 MHz

  6. 162.525 MHz

  7. 162.550 MHz *

* The Radio Shack leaving lswsweather alert radio uses these frequencies.

Products

www.peetbros.com leaving lsws devices

www.weathershop.com leaving lsws devices

www.columbiaweather.com leaving lsws devices

www.dawning.com leaving lsws PC interface

Grant Fitz, fitzgr@yahoo.com Copyright © 2001 Grant Fitz. All rights reserved.
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