Paraglider soaring the foothill ridge above Boulder, Colorado at sunset

NWS Boulder Forecast

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North Boulder Ridge · Colorado

Soaring & Safety Forecast for North Boulder Ridge

NWS grid forecasts, model soundings, wind aloft, instability and live alerts — distilled into a single tool, with all the raw data one tap away.

Soaring & Safety Forecast for North Boulder Ridge

Right now

Go / no-go merges live launch readings, ridge-top stations and winds aloft — not only the single wind readings shown below.

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Sourcing fresh weather data

What's driving the call

Flags raised for the current hour. No flags means nothing exceeded a limit.

  • All monitored parameters within normal soaring limits.

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Forecast sources behind this window

Last updated — MT · auto-refresh every 5 minutes

  • NOAA HRRR/NAM/NBM hourly — surface wind, gust, dew point, CAPEunavailable
  • Winds aloft (~6,400 ft / ~10,000 ft)unavailable
  • NWS Boulder gridpoint forecastunavailable
  • NWS active alerts (Colorado)unavailable

Look-ahead model output for 8am–7pm today; live stations only inform the go/no-go call.

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Safety forecast — go / no-go

Wind at launch, behind the ridge, aloft, live stations, NWS alerts and what is driving the call.

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Soaring forecast

Thermal energy, cloudbase, hour-by-hour quality at the ridge, plus statewide Colorado tools.

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Raw data

Every source behind the numbers, grouped the way Boulder pilots check them.

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