Steve's 2009 Solar Eclipse Weather Page

Here you can file weather forecasts for the area covered by the upcoming solar eclipse on July 22, 2009. A brief explanation of the charts including some notes on the models and the time references found in the plots can be found at the above link.

Eclipse charts

Solar Eclipse path from the NASA Eclipse Bulletin Web site

Weather conditions and forecasts from the Weather Underground

• Beijing, China
• Cheju, South Korea
• Kagoshima, Japan
• Kobe, Japan
• Shanghai, China

Other links

WRF simulations over eastern Asia and the western Pacific Ocean (to 72 hours)

• Sea Level Pressure and Precipitation
• Cloud cover
• Surface temperature
• Surface winds
• 500 hPa heights and wind speed

Global Forecast System (GFS) data, animations and point forecasts (to 16 days)

• Current Sea Surface Temperature
• 16-day Sea Level Pressure and Precipitation forecast
• 16-day Surface winds forecast
• Ocean wave height forecast

Location	GFS Days 1-8	GFS Days 9-16	WRF Days 1-3	Location	GFS Days 1-8	GFS Days 9-16	WRF Days 1-3
Beijing, China				Max eclipse point
Cheju, South Korea				Kagoshima, Japan
Kobe, Japan				Shanghai, China

Model forecasts by time along the centeral line. GFS1 is days 1-7 of the Global Forecast System (GFS). GFS2 is days 8-14. WRF shows a 72 hour forecast from my local WRF simulation.

Time(UTC)	GFS 1	GFS 2	WRF		Time(UTC)	GFS 1	GFS 2	WRF		Time(UTC)	GFS 1	GFS 2	WRF		Time(UTC)	GFS 1	GFS 2	WRF
01:00					02:00					03:00					04:00
01:05					02:05					03:05					04:05
01:10					02:10					03:10					04:10
01:15					02:15					03:15					04:15
01:20					02:20					03:20					04:20
01:25					02:25					03:25					04:25
01:30					02:30					03:30					04:30
01:35					02:35					03:35					04:35
01:40					02:40					03:40					04:40
01:45					02:45					03:45					04:45
01:50					02:50					03:50					04:50
01:55					02:55					03:55					04:55