Quote Originally Posted by Polar Eyes View Post
In my mind, NOAA is the Standard, but here are a few others I check:

http://www.windfinder.com/forecast/south_bass_island

http://www.windfinder.com/forecast/m...buoy_lake_erie

http://www.iwindsurf.com/windandwher...=95&siteID=849

http://windmapper.com/GL/forecast

I sort of take what all of the sites predict and aggregate them into my own "forecast".

In terms of wind & wave forecast, anything beyond 5 days is a crap shoot. You may find someone forecasting it, but its only slightly better than an educated guess.

I must respectfully disagree with the NOAA analogy. I have found them to be the most inaccurate weather forecaster available for lake Erie. Their forecasts leads to more disappointed fishermen than all the rest combined. They are most often wrong in wind speed and direction. They will lead people to stay home when the lake is fine and entice you to come with a favorable forecast when it is not only not fit to be on the lake but dangerous as well. NOAA and their weather buoys and weather station reports are much more accurate and directly conflict with their written forecast for either the inshore forecast or the open water forecast only because they're real time reports and not forecasts.