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Forecast Model Packet

Everything a forecaster opens before a big weather day, in one place: NOAA's official outlooks shown right here, one-tap links into the Tropical Tidbits and College of DuPage model viewers for any field and forecast hour, and model soundings for Pennsylvania airports. The packet button saves it all as a ZIP you can open offline.

Official NOAA outlooks

Straight from the Storm Prediction Center, Weather Prediction Center and Climate Prediction Center. Tap an image to open the full-size original.

Model maps

Links open the viewer at that field and hour. If a viewer renames a product, the page still opens and you can pick the field from its menu. These images belong to their sites, so they are linked rather than copied.

Model soundings

Opens the NWS interactive model sounding viewer (Skew-T, hodograph, indices). Raw BUFKIT files for Pennsylvania are at Penn State's BUFKIT server; open them in the Bufkit Explorer.

Save a packet

Downloads a ZIP with an index.html of every link above plus copies of the SPC outlook images (SPC allows that). WPC and CPC images are linked in the index instead, because those servers don't let a browser page copy them.