Sources & Resources
Official weather sources, forecast tools and practical resources for Mexico's Pacific coast and the Sea of Cortez. Official agencies are listed first; independent tools and community resources are grouped separately below.
Official Weather & Emergency Agencies
- NOAA / National Hurricane Center (NHC)Primary source for Eastern Pacific tropical cyclone advisories, cones, and warnings.
- NHC RSS FeedsText product and storm-wallet RSS feeds for active systems.
- NHC GIS DataActive tropical cyclone tracks, cones, and watches/warnings in GIS formats.
- NHC Active KML/KMZForecast track, cone of uncertainty, and wind probability layers.
- SMN / CONAGUA - Avisos de ciclón tropical (Pacífico)Official Mexican tropical cyclone advisories for the Pacific.
- CICESE-UALPCICESE-UALP oceanography - sea-surface temperature and ocean observations for Mexican seas in the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.
- NOAA / NCEP GFS-Wave via NOMADSOffshore model guidance for combined wave height and swell height, period, and direction.
- PacIOOS WaveWatch III Global ForecastFree hourly global wave-model guidance used for the Marine Conditions card's 12-hour wave trend.
- SEMAR Oceanografía — MareasOfficial Mexican tide-station information and annual graphical and numerical tide predictions.
- NOAA CO-OPS Tide PredictionsOfficial high/low tide predictions for the exact Puerto San Carlos station used by the Magdalena Bay card.
- AVISO+ / CNES FES2022 Ocean TideFreely available global coastal tide model underlying point predictions for communities without an exact government station.
- DGFI-TUM EOT20 Ocean Tide ModelOpen ocean-tide model used for an exact Los Barriles point prediction after validation against nearby official and independent references.
- Protección Civil (BCS)State civil protection - official local instructions and alerts.
Weather Maps & Forecast Tools
Satellite
Waves & swell
Forecast models
Marine, Sailing & Boating Resources
Independent weather tools, regional knowledge and cruising resources for life on the water. These are external resources to explore, separate from the official agencies and data services used by BajaStorms.
- PassageWeather ↗
Wind and wave forecasts for passage planning.
- Saildocs ↗
Weather forecasts by email for use offshore.
- Sonrisa Net ↗
Sea of Cortez ham radio net and weather resources.
- AI Passage Plan ↗
Sailing forecasts and passage-planning tools.
- Noforeignland · Mexico ↗
Community guides to Mexico's cruising areas.
- Noonsite · Cruising Resources ↗
Cruising advice on weather, safety and life aboard.
- Ocean Posse ↗
Global sailing community and cruising resources.
Ports & Marinas
Port contacts, marinas and boating services by location.
Baja California Sur
Cabo San Lucas
Cabo harbor and marinas.
San José del Cabo
Puerto Los Cabos and La Playita.
Todos Santos
Punta Lobos and regional port contacts.
La Paz
La Paz marinas and Pichilingue port.
East Cape / Los Barriles
Los Barriles and Costa Palmas at La Ribera.
Loreto
Loreto harbor and Puerto Escondido, BCS.
Mulegé / Bahía Concepción
Mulegé, Bahía Concepción and regional contacts.
Santa Rosalía
Working harbor and Marina Turística.
Ciudad Constitución
Nearby San Carlos and López Mateos ports.
Magdalena Bay / Puerto San Carlos
San Carlos and López Mateos ports.
Bahía Tortugas / Pacific Northwest
Bahía Tortugas / Puerto San Bartolomé.
Guerrero Negro
Ojo de Liebre and industrial port contacts.
Mainland Mexico
Salina Cruz
Commercial and fishing port contacts.
Puerto Escondido
Bahía Principal and port contacts, Oaxaca.
Acapulco
Acapulco, Puerto Marqués and marinas.
Zihuatanejo
Zihuatanejo harbor and Marina Ixtapa.
Lázaro Cárdenas
Commercial port and maritime authorities.
Manzanillo
Commercial port and Marina Las Hadas.
Puerto Vallarta
Marinas across Bahía de Banderas.
San Blas
San Blas port, marina and official contacts.
Mazatlán
Commercial harbor and marina district.
Culiacán
Altata and Nuevo Altata boating facilities.
Los Mochis
Topolobampo port and marina.
Ciudad Obregón
Guaymas, San Carlos and Yavaros regional ports.
Data & Technology
Data, software and services supporting BajaStorms.
- TideCheck ↗
Tide predictions where local station data is unavailable.
- MapLibre GL JS ↗
Open-source library that renders the interactive maps.
- OpenStreetMap ↗
Open map data behind the base maps. © OpenStreetMap contributors.
- CARTO ↗
Keyless base-map tiles that follow the site theme.
- Open-Meteo ↗
Free, open weather API for the daily city forecasts.
- MET Norway ↗
Norwegian Meteorological Institute weather data, used as a forecast fallback.
- Natural Earth ↗
Land and coastline data for the maps.
- Cloudflare ↗
Satellite imagery delivery and caching.
- Resend ↗
Subscriber alert-email delivery.
- Sanity ↗
Blog content and image management.
- OpenAI ↗
Automated Spanish translations of NHC advisories.
A quick note: BajaStorms is an independent information service, not an official weather or emergency agency. For official guidance during a storm, follow Protección Civil, SMN/CONAGUA, the NHC, and your local authorities.