There are so many sources of weather data on the Internet what to use can become confusing. There are a series of sights we check twice a day, to get a feel f or the rhythm of the weather, which incidentally is shaping up for a fast sailing passage if what we are seeing now holds.
Even though hurricane season is officially over we still check the National Hurricane Center tropical depression/storm/hurricane forecasts. We are looking for warning signs.
A favorite is the complete fax coverage in a single URL including the surface, 500mb, winds and waves current conditions to 96 hours forecast.
A new product from the National Hurricane Center in the form of a five day gridded forecast with surface winds, pressure, and waves for the tropical area south of the fax coverage above. Extends from the West Indies out to mid-Atlantic.
The duty forecaster’s comments on how the models are performing and what might happen that is not covered in the broadcast forecast. http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/raw/ag/agnt40.kwnm.mim.atn.txt
Passage Weather for a quick look at the GFS GRIB files. http://www.passageweather.com/
And finally, we download GRIB files using Saildocs and review them in Expedition where we run routings (more on this later).
September 25th, 2011 at 7:34 pm
Hello,
The Expedition link doesn’t seem to work. http://www.tasmanbaynav.co.nz/ looks like what I’ve seen you use from screen shots.
Enjoying your adventures, thank you for sharing.
September 29th, 2011 at 4:49 pm
Hi Joe:
Checked your link and it is correct.