U.S. satellite images of visible cloud cover are shown below for the continental United States and its coastline and some or all portions of Alaska, Canada, Mexico, Hawaii, etc. At night the images are black - see the infrared page for clarity. The satellite feeds are updated every thirty minutes. Check the transmitted time on the images in the upper left corner. Hopefully you will have clear skies for your sailing adventure! (Times are UTC, a.k.a. Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) or Zulu time.)
Shown are parts of southwest Canada and its shoreline, the US west coast, Mexico, the Baja Peninsula and the Sea of Cortéz (aka the Gulf of California & Mar de Cortés). Keep the mast side up!
Shown is the visible cloud cover over parts of the eastern Canadian seashore, Newfoundland, the US eastern seaboard, the area of the Florida Keys, most of the Gulf of Mexico, Cuba, the Bahamas and the northernmost Carribean. Keep the keel side down!
Satellite image of the visible cloud cover over the northern U.S. West Coast, the West Canadian coast and southern Alaska. The ocean moans over dead men's bones ~ attributed to Thomas B. Adrich
Shown is a satellite image of the visible cloud cover over the Great Lakes. The Great Lakes are the largest group of freshwater lakes in the world (20% of the fresh surface water) and a source of fresh water for many millions of people. They are large enough to affect the local weather and can be the source of moisture for large snowfalls in their vicinity. Lake Superior is in the upper left, Lake Michigan in the lower left, Lake Huron in the middle, Lake Erie below Huron, and Lake Ontario on the right. There are approximately 35,000 Great Lake islands! Thousands of ships have sunk in the Great Lakes. Keep the water on the outside of your boat!
Hawaii - visible cloud cover. Aloha!
Global Cloudcover
Continental US (coming soon)
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