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From: budden@trout.nosc.mil (Rex A. Buddenberg)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Weather at US Bases?
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Date: 21 Dec 90 02:58:37 GMT
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From: budden@trout.nosc.mil (Rex A. Buddenberg)

JLH asked about weather in Guam.  

The Joint typhoon tracking center is located at Guam.  When I was
on Iwo Jima, they would courteously add us to the addee list on the
warning messages if it looked like we might be in the path of one.
The messages came in every four or six hours; I'd plot them with
a grease pencil in my office.
   For confirmations ad a bit more graphic information, I'd tool
over to the Japanese base and look at the weather faxes in their
aero briefing center -- which came from the same warning center in
Guam.  (Since Loran stations aren't supposed to be in the weather
business, we didn't have a fax machine....)
   All of this stuff was unclassified and weather faxes were broadcast
in the clear on several HF frequencies.

None of which probably helps JLH much ...  typical civilian weather
reports are rather local.  Gander at the weather channel on your cable
TV...the one in my area frequently cuts to European weather reports.
I haven't noticed any Pacific reports, but then I'm not exactly a
connoisuer of the weather channel (Sesame Street, however, is a different
story:-)  
  Probably the best available source is flight services at an international
airport.

Guam, on the other hand, has rather boring weather.  It's hot, muggy, ...
almost all the time.  Except for the typhoons, there isn't much
else.  And Russ is quite late in the season; a leftover.

Rex Buddenberg