very local weather forecast

[rolmops]

The last few years we had a link in the website called "noaa weather service" that directed us to very localized weather prediction and wave height expectation. I tried the link a few times this week ,but it does not work anymore. Has the web address changed,or has the link been taken down? If anybody knows what happened,please let me know.

Edited April 14, 2016 by rolmops

[smallboat]

I have also found that a number of NOAA website addresses that I have saved don't work anymore. All of the information is still available but you have to look for the new addresses.

I found wave height and wind speed at: http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/res/glcfs/

Hope this helps.

[Smeltz]

Here's the site I use.  I went to buoy # OLCN6 in Ontario & got today's data:

 

http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/maps/EastGL.shtml

 

Some of the L Erie ones show nothing yet.  I think those buoys were removed for the winter.  They'll get back online later.

 

Hope it works for you.

[dukhnter8]

http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/

 

Here's one where you can get buoy data.

[m8ball48402]

https://www.wunderground.com/MAR/LO/042.html. If you scroll down you can choose different areas of lake

[Sk8man]

Looking at this kinda hit me as being pretty amazing this AM . Back in the seventies when I had my 13 ft Whaler I would have to drive from Geneva to Sodus Point to see what the waves were like and then decide whether it was "fishable" and sometimes had to sit in the parking lot or go to Chase's restaurant and hope it would calm down.  Nowadays we take a lot for granted in this age of electronic technology and forget just how wonderful some aspects of it can be .

[Thun]

Using the NDBC links posted above, I found one 20 NM NNE of Rochester.

 

http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=45012

[kayaker919]

try this:

 

Marine Point Forecast

 

select your location on the map, then click on the Hourly Weather Graph right below the map.

[chinook35]

This one still works www.weather.gov//buf/   I have found that the best way to see conditions on the lake is to be there . Many mornings ,when NOAA predicts 1-3 ft. waves ,I get to the lake and find solid 3-5 's . Time for breakfast and hope it calms down .

[bigturk_80]

I use this for both Erie and Ontario, and find it bang on all the time. 

 

https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/ofs/ofs_animation.shtml?ofsregion=lo&subdomain=0&model_type=wind_forecast

[Peave]

_{Is this the NOOA site you were looking for originally?}

 

_{http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/marine/zone/gtlakes/bufmz.htm}