Wind Resources
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General Information about wind & weather

Not many sports are more reliant on the weather than windsurfing, kite surfing & sailing. 
We do not need sunshine, but we definitely need some wind !!!

Below we have collected some useful links & radio stations to wind forecast services mainly in Northern Europe. If you are interested how wind develops and how different 
factors influence the climate you may find the following links useful:
 Wind
 Allosurf.net - focused on france (french) Wind - Wikipedia (english or german) Klimatologie - Uni Freiburg (german) Wind / Beaufort-Scale - wir-lieben-segeln.de (german) 

Weather Analysis
 Surface Weather Analysis - Wikipedia (english) Interpretation von Wetterkarten - Wikipedia (german) weathercharts.org - lots of weather charts (english) NWA Study Portal - comprehensive resource of the 
National Weather Assoc. (english)
(you need to log-in, but its free) NWA Guide to operational forecasting research papers 
if you want to study even more (english)

 Interpretation of clouds
 theweatherprediction.com by Jeff Haby (meteorologist) -
weather forecast, clouds & more (english) Meteoblue (Uni Basel) - cloud types (pics) & general
knowledge about weather (english)
Wolkenmuster & allgemeine Information ueber 
die Entstehung des Wetters (german) Mountain Weather - Although focused on mountain weather useful 
information incl. cloud formation (english) Wolkenatlas by Stefan Bauer - very good overview
about clouds (german) 

Individual Weather forecasts

Belgium KMI -Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium
Local weather conditions including wind reports.
KMI Windreports    Vlaanderen.be
Regional Page.
Vlaanderen Homepage  Status reports.
Vlaanderen Wind      Denmark  DMI - Danish Meteorological Institute Homepage - English index.
DMI Homepage  Forecasts - regionally organized.
DMI Forecasts      Germany  DWD - Deutscher Wetterdienst Very good and reliable forecast for the eastern part of the North Sea & the Baltic Sea
Küstenwetterbericht
(coastal area)  Report on weather conditions on the open sea.
Seewetterbericht
(open sea)   General wind forecast.
Forecast  Detailed report on each station.
Report from stations  
Detailed forecast for each station (next 3 days) Forecast for stations Maps (open sea)   
 Netherlands  KNMI- Royal Meteorological Institute of the Netherlands Windreports and Forecasts
KNMI Windreport 


Others - international 

Wetter.de
Infos on general weather conditions.
Wetter.de    Wetter.com
Infos on general weather conditions.
Wetter.com  Direct link `Wunstorf-Steinhude´     Wetteronline.de
Very good information service.  
Watersport weather for the most
 important spots in Europe. 
Maps for regional overview.
Wetteronline.de  Choose the direkt link to go to the sailing section.
Direct link for sailing    Windfinder.com
Detailed wind info for many European spots. Offers also SMS-service.
Windfinder.com     Windguru.cz
One of the best and most reliable wind forecasts on the net. International coverage.
Windguru.cz Australia - Bureau of Meteorology Austria - Zentralanstalt für Meteorologie und Geodynamik Canada - Meteorological Service of Canada Fidschi Islands - Fiji Meteorological Service France - Meteo France Kenia - Kenya Meteorological Department Maledives - Department of Meteorology Portugal - Instituto de Meteorologia Russland - Russian Federal Service for Hydrometeorology 
and Environment Monitoring South Korea - Korea Meteorological Administration Spain - Instituto Nacional de Meteorologia Switzerland - MeteoSchweiz Turkey - General Directorat of the National 
Turkish Meteorological Service UK - Met Office USA - NOAA - National Weather Service   Radio stations   Jever Seewetterbericht Very good forecasts for
Northern Germany.
Radio FFN at 8:40 am and in the early afternoon.
Frequency in Hannover
UKW 101,9 Mhz NDR 1 Seewetterbericht Very detailed wind info for Northern Europe (North Sea, Baltic Sea) i
ncl. detailed reports from measuring stations and f
orecasts for the next 12/24 hours. Lasts about 20 min (!!).
NDR Radio at 8:30 am and 22:05 pm
Frequency in Northern Europe
MW 702 Khz u. 972 Khz.   Phone Service   Steinhuder Meer (Germany) Automatic phone voice service for Steinhuder Meer, Level Island Wilhelmstein.
Continuous updates for water level, temperature, wind speed and direction.
Phone No.: 05033-2609       please report broken link

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