WEATHER

Weather Happenings in the Cloudforest

The Weather Cockpit Our weather cockpit gives you access to all the California live and historical weather data you want just a single mouse click away. A Freeze Primer Read about the counter-intuitive physics of freezes. Online Weather Resources As a companion to the weather cockpit, read our editorial on online weather resources and how you can make use of the data.

Will this Winter bring another freeze? Last Winter's La Nina sent the mercury below 32 for several nights. But this year, it seems that the La Nina conditions have intensified. does this mean we can expect yet another cold winter?              Read what the experts say... El Nino/La Nina Visit the National Climate Data Center El Nino/La Nina Page to get the latest update on this winter's La Nina conditions. If you're not convinced La Nina is still around, then the `Daily' SST Anomaly Charts from the NCDC will quickly change your mind.

	Why do we show the weather for Quito in the upper left hand of our pages? The Andean Weather Page: The main theme of the Cloudforest Gardener is ...well... Cloudforest Gardening on the central coast, and this is made possible by the fact that our central coast climate is very similar to the climates found in the higher elevations of the Andes. We wanted to quantify this a bit more, so we've researched the weather data and we have summarized the results in our Andean Weather page. Understanding Andean weather makes it easier to figure out the kinds of conditions necessary for growing the lost crops of the Incas.

NWS Monterey Bay Office
Visit the National Weather Service Monterey Bay Office's home page. They've done a fantastic job of providing excellent resources.

Yahoo Weather
Yahoo weather is provided by Weathernews Inc. a very respectable and reliable provider of weather content.

Accuweather Accuweather seems to be one of the few providers who has a true microclimate forecast according to zipcode. See for example Monterey Bay microclimates.

The Weather Channel This site has easy to navigate graphics, including outlines of the jet stream, an item that should be watched closely throughout the winter months to predict the likelihood of freezes.