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    Whistler-Blackcomb Cams
    Chilcotin-Tatla Area
    Mt St Helens
    3 dozen Pacific Mountain Cams This page takes a while to load
    Vancouver Cams
    From Above Burrard Bridge excellent cam
    Key to Above Burrard Bridge Landmarks (200 kb)
    Burrard Bridge Archives
    North Shore Mountains from Jericho Beach. Mt. Strachan on the far left
    Lion's Gate Bridge
    Bowen Ferry info
    Forecasts
    Alpine Forecast
    Mt. Seymour Alpine 5-day Forecast winter season only
    YVR (airport) 5-day Forecast
    YVR 24 hr. Trends
    New Pam Rocks past 24 hrs.
    Surface Maps
    N. Pacific
    World Surface Map
    Choose a LOOP (>0.5 meg) 60-hour predictions
    Use these to anticipate when systems will arrive.
    New Local Tide Chart
    New Skookumchuck Narrows Current
    Wait for above tide & current calculations
    Jet Stream
    Canada & USA
    Satellite Images
    Make your own IR loop popup window.
    Use the above when there is no sunlight. Click the Build Animation button.
    Make your own Visible light loop
    When there is sunlight on the Pacific, the visible light images show icefields and other landmarks as well as clouds. Click the Build Animation
    GOES-10
    Same coverage as above, but GOES-10 animation shows huge a huge animation of the N. Pacific. The file is large and may choke your browser. On dialup go make coffee while this loads.
    New N. America Colour loop
    New 3-week colour globe
    Radar Animation
    Seattle to Sunshine Coast
    Environment Can. Radar
    Current Avy Bulletin
    Don't leave home without it. Take the transceiver, shovel and probe too.
    The 2007/2008 season - avy reports started Nov. 19
    Recent bulletins for BC
    And here is the bad news for this season:
    Avalanche Reports

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