SABRE Planning

Meteorological Forecasts

• Panama Institute of Meteorology
• Panama Canal Weather Radar
• AccuWeather Panama City forecast
• Met Office Panama City forecast
• ventusky Panama satellite/radar/forecasts
• meteoblue MultiModel for Panama City wind/precip/meteograms
• University at Albany GFS weather forecasts
• NOAA National Hurricane Center and Central Pacific Hurricane Center

Satellite Products

• RAMMB/CIRA at CSU Slider: GOES-east
• NASA LaRC GOES-east
• NASA LaRC global merged cloud satellite product
• NASA LaRC global satellite composite visible imagery

Flight Resources

Note: Tocumen International (MPTO) is the MET station for Panama City international airport. The airport for SABRE flights is MPPA.
Local time is UTC-5

• SkyVector Aeronautical Charts (METAR/sigmets)
• Aviation Weather Center
• Aviation Weather Center: METAR lookup
• METAR MPHO interpreted
• ForeFlight
• FAA Aviation Handbook - a useful if somewhat intense guide to Aviation Forecasting
• Guide to METARs: How to Read An Aviation Routine Weather (METAR) Report + METAR Examples

Chemical Forecasts

• Experimental UFS-Chem Forecast
• CAMS global chemical forecasts
• Volcano Discovery currently active volcanoes
• NOAA Volcanic Ash Advisories
• IQAir global air quality maps
• NASA FIRMS global fire map