Your put-in

This route needs coordinates

To show the wind, the forecast, sunrise and sunset and a map, the route in Notion needs the latitude and longitude of the put-in.

On a computer, open Google Maps and find the put-in.
Right-click the landing. The first line of the menu is the coordinates, for example 45.5310, -78.7133. Click the numbers to copy them. (On a phone: press and hold the spot, then copy the numbers from the search box.)
In Notion, open the route in your Routes database. Paste the first number into Latitude and the second number (keep the minus sign) into Longitude.
Open the route link again.

Latitude is between −90 and 90; longitude is between −180 and 180. West of Greenwich (all of North America) longitude is negative.

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Your put-in

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This page reports the wind. It does not tell you to go.

The decision to launch is always yours. A wind band here describes what the forecast says the air is doing over the next few days. It knows nothing about your boat, your load, your skills, the people with you, the fetch of the water you mean to cross, or how far it is to a shore you could reach. None of that is in a forecast, and none of it is on this page. “Calm” describes the wind, never your plan or your crossing.

Cold water is dangerous regardless of air temperature. Immersion takes your breath and your grip within a minute, long before it takes your warmth, and a hot afternoon does not change that. This page has no water temperature — the forecast does not carry one and it will not be guessed here. Find that out for yourself before you go.

Personal flotation devices, required equipment and where you may put in are set by your own jurisdiction, and differ from one water to the next. Nothing here states any of them. Read and follow the rules that apply where you are paddling, and check local marine or lake forecasts and any advisories on the day.

Wind on open water

The bands are wind speed and nothing else: calm is under 12 km/h, take care is 12 to 25 km/h, and above 25 km/h is stay off the open water. Where the forecast carries a gust figure the band is taken from the gust, because a gust is what puts a boat over; where it does not, the band is taken from the strongest sustained wind in that window and says so. Direction is the direction the wind blows from.

These three bands describe the wind. They are not a rule about when to paddle, and no such rule is encoded anywhere on this page or in the template. Wind over water is stronger than wind over land, it funnels between islands and down a long reach, and it can come up in minutes. Read it yourself at the put-in, and be willing to turn round.

Forecast

Sunrise, sunset & daylight

Sunrise and sunset are astronomy for the put-in's coordinates: the times the sun's edge crosses a flat horizon. A high shore, a headland or cloud will take the light off the water earlier than this, and paddling out the last of the light is how people end up finding a campsite in the dark.

Put-in map

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