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\ Central Coast area motorcyling Weather Observation Page
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Site Meteorologists: Gail Storm and Claudio VerKnight
Click for Santa Maria, California Forecast
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\ Local Traffic Info
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\ Dual Sporting the Carrizo Plain
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\ Local Weather. Click any graphic for complete forecast.
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\ Click for Paso Robles, California Forecast
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Click for San Luis Obispo, California Forecast
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\ Current Weather observations from other local sources: (back to top)
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\ Local Airports (NWS):
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\ WebCams where you can SEE the current traffic and weather! (back to top)\

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\ Additional traffic info -->
\ 		CHP: select San Luis Obispo area for recent activityCal Trans: Enter highway number for current status.
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\ Radar (back to top)
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Local Radar from IntellicastRegional radar from the Weather Channel
Nexrad Composite Loop of local radar over last hour.mRegional Radar from Intellicast
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National Satellite Views (back to top)

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  • Latest Visible Satellite Image. From the GOES-9 Satellite, the most recent visible light view for the Western Hemisphere. Located at Purdue Univ., updated hourly.\
  • Visible Satellite loop.. this is a great GOES-9 Western Hemisphere satellite loop which you can control. Java-savvy browser needed. Takes a while to load.\
  • Latest Water Vapor Image. GOES-9 water vapor image for the Western Hemisphere. At Purdue.\
  • Water Vapor Loop. this is a great GOES-9 Western Hemisphere satellite loop which you can control. Java-savvy browser needed. Takes a while to load.\
  • Latest Infrared Satellite Image. Look at this one if it is night time! \
  • NASA GOES images. The Geosynchronous Orbit Environmental Satellites stay in the same place over a point on Earth all the time. Get images for the whole country from this site.\
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Marine Conditions (back to top)

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  • NDBC # 46011. Point Sal- Santa Maria 3-meter Discus Buoy. Get up to date marine observations from the buoy. This page, and the three below are all in the Santa Maria area, and provide hourly reports on such conditions as temperature(air and water), pressure, wind and waves. There are charts of the previous 12 reports, and graphs of the past several days of data. Also, if you scroll down the page, you will find detailed wave information, and a significant amount of historical data for each buoy for the previous 12 months, and for several years back.\
  • NDBC # 46023. Pt. Arguello 10-meter Discus Buoy. 21 mi. Northwest of Pt. Arguello\
  • NDBC # 46054. Santa Barbara 10-meter Discus Buoy. 12 mi. south of Pt. Conception\
  • Beach Closures in Santa Barbara area: Thinking of going to the beach? you might want to check this page first! It gives the current closures due to problems like coliform counts at beaches between El Capitan and Rincon. Click the graphic at the top of the page and it will show you the raw data used in determining whether a beach should be closed.\
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    • Port San Luis Obispo tides. Generated at The University of South Carolina's Biological Science Department. Provides textual information of high and low tides at the location for the next 48 hours. There is also provision for producing a graph of predictions for up to a month, although this is time consuming. This server is used for a lot of research projects, and is always busy, so expect to wait a little for your connection. Remember, tide predictions are just that PREDICTIONS. They cannot be relied upon to be 100% accurate.\
    • Morro Bay Tides. Also from The University of South Carolina's Biological Science Department\
    • West Coast Tides. Select a site from The University of South Carolina's Biological Science Department. Sites are listed from North to South.\
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\ Local dealers by brand (back to top)
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HarleyHondaKawasakiKTMSuzukiYamahaVictory
Santa MariaLompocSan Luis ObispoPaso RoblesSanta MariaSanta MariaPaso Robles
AtascaderoSan Luis ObispoSanta MariaSanta BarbaraPaso RoblesSan Luis Obispo
Santa BarbaraSanta BarbaraSanta BarbaraSan Luis ObispoPaso Robles
Paso RoblesLompoc
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\ Questions, comments or other info you'd like to see here? email: Walt Bunning
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