Climbing

Panel 20 -- Weather

TABLE OF CONTENTS of this chain:

20/ Weather
21/ Climbing glossary
22/ Song
23/
24/
25/
26/ Climbing Humor
27/ Legal issues
28/ Alternative ways to read rec.climbing
1/ DISCLAIMER
2/ Previous topics
3/ Beginner's (climbing) post
4/
5/ Access
6/
7/ References
8/
9/
10/
11/
12/ Ratings and grades
13/
14/ In memoriam
15/
16/
17/
18/ Climbing GIFs
19/

Disclaimer: This information is provided with no hostinghostinghostingurance nor implicited
guarantee. The information provided by these numbers is not hostinghostinghostingured to be
current. The use of this information implies the reader understands this
fact. Use at your own risk.

During the 1980s, a suit was brought against NOAA for a bad weather forecast
in New England for the deaths of two fishermen.
Ref: comp.risks.

# %W% %H% %T%
Weather Condition Telephone Numbers

These are telephone numbers for weather condition reports near
various North American climbing areas:

State/Province Area Phone number
-------------- ---- ------------

California Pinnacles** 408 389 4485
California Redding 916 246 1556
California Tahoe 916 541 1151
California Yosemite Natl Park 209 372 0200
California **** 415 557 3755
Colorado Denver 303 398 3964
Colorado Denver* 303 236 9435
Colorado Ft.Collins* 303 482 0457
Colorado Frisco* 303 668 5485
Colorado Minturn* 303 827 5687
Colorado Aspen* 303 920 1664
New Hampshire Pinkham Notch***** 603 466 2727
New York New Paltz 914 485 1390
New York Lake Placid*** 518 523 3518

Notes:
* Avalanche information
** Not a recorded number, but a ranger station
*** Recorded weather and trail information
**** Recorded California highway conditions. Enter highway
number via telephone keypad.
***** Ask for "weather line"


Weather Conditions Via The Internet

Current weather condition information for the United States can also
be retrieved from the Internet. sci.geo.meteorology FAQ:
<URL:http://www.ucar.edu/dss/faq/weather-data.html>
If you are unfamiliar with the telnet and
ftp commands used to retrieve these data, please ask your site
administrator for help.

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Current weather data section now removed see instead:

<URL:http://www.ucar.edu/dss/faq/weather-data.html>



Acknowledgements

Weather condition phone numbers were provided by Michael Brodesky
(), David O. Blanchard (),
Clint hostinghostinghostingmins (), David K. Mellinger
(), Marc Breitfeld (),
and Polly Powledge ().
sci.geo.meteorology FAQ see:
<URL:http://www.ucar.edu/dss/faq/weather-data.html>
Corrections and additions should be sent to .

created: Fri Sep 24 1993

Great stories about Fred Beckey exist about the weather.

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