VFR Cross Country Weather Planning

A very important part of preflight planning is obtaining weather information. It really pays off to start observing the weather a number of days ahead of the flight to see what the weather systems are doing, getting the big picture is important.

The views below represent an overview of worldwide weather and gives you an idea of what the weather is doing around the globe. Use this before studying the local weather systems that may influence your flight.

World Cloud Map

The world could map is movable and zoomable. Using these tools you can see the clouds and weather over any location.

This overview gives a big picture of weather worldwide.

World Weather Map

Watch the sun rise and set all over the world on this real-time, computer-generated illustration of the earth's patterns of sunlight and darkness. The clouds are updated every 3 hours with current weather satellite imagery. If you do not see the images, you might have to adjust your adblocker.

The view below is in Hemisphere mode, here you see the sunrise and sunset areas, enjoy.

The left image shows were the sun rises and the right sphere of the earth shows the areas were the sun sets at this moment.

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