I've become infatuated with the weather !
Curious what others do to check suitability of conditions before leaving the house.
Do you generally just use the seabreeze weather info, coastalwatch.com.au or just look out the window :)
Thanks
Mark
Coastal watch, swellnet, check weather maps as well to work out wind direction and speed. Plus gut instinct as well.
Wind guru is really good been using it for years and it's pretty detailed and solid .... But only accurate to about 3 days or so then tends to be pretty variable
Down my way I look at mostly BoM Marine, the very local Black Rock Yacht Club weather pages (when they're up) and Seabreeze (in that order), and ....and then maybe..just maybe...if I'm lucky, I might get what I think I'm going to get.
All weather forecasters use a bunch of models to work out what's going to happen.
While not any kind of guru I use Windguru, Stormsurf, Seabreeze and BOM. Swellnet also has good written forecasts.
If you look at a forecast for say 1 week in time and they all say the same thing the chance is good it will happen. If they are all different it means noone knows what's going to happen.
On the day I find the Hurley App on the iphone while you lighten the load after an early morning coffee is as good as anything except driving to the beach.
Check Seabreeze more than a couple of times a day to make sure I don't get any surprises while out. Check the swell at Cronulla twice a day and look at the trees at the back of my house before I go. Chances are, I'll go no matter what, but it gives me an idea of which board I'll need and where to ge in.
No substitute for being outside to know what the weather is doing.
I agree with Greenroom - the synoptic chart was all we used back before the interweb.
Local surf webcams, weather map and the wind tree up the street. If its shaking I'm packing the windsurf gear - if not the SUP and shorty are in the car - if its borderline the whole lot gets loaded
A lot of the weather reports locally don't take into account local wind effects and tidal swell surges / pulses etc - and some of the recorders are so far from the beach that they do not reflect whats happening on the water - gaining some local knowledge about wind patterns, tidal influences season by season where your heading certainly helps
You gotta love looking at all the forecasts and planning your week on a each evening
Add this one to your list - great wind stats
just click on Aust and update your local breaks.
wisuki.com/forecast/4933/elliston
We've got an iPhone app out now too (Android coming)
$1.99:https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/seabreeze/id510545941
or Free (with support from sponsors)
itunes.apple.com/au/app/seabreeze-free/id571581320?mt=8
Greenroom is bang on about reading syntopic .. a useful skill that takes moments to learn (this article is about looking for wind, so reverse the concept when reading! ... www.seabreeze.com.au/info/wind.asp)
(A tip: when viewing the graphs, you can click on the 7 day forecast on any of the weather pages to take you though to the synoptic charts, for that 'extra insight')
Bit late but my take, in order.
Have a body check outside your house, ya no when its blowing offshore in qld
Weather obs
weather forecasts
and most impotantly wave bouy readings, eg, Min/max, swell direction, period and water temp.
haha .. should probably choose another day for the screen grab .. it was a while back & too much SE for surfing/sup, and too offshore for kiting. 
