{"id":14358,"date":"2010-11-19T00:01:25","date_gmt":"2010-11-19T05:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/?p=14358"},"modified":"2010-11-18T04:10:55","modified_gmt":"2010-11-18T09:10:55","slug":"internet-weather-sources-for-the-atlantic-crossing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/internet-weather-sources-for-the-atlantic-crossing\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet Weather Sources For The Atlantic Crossing"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.<\/p>\n

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Even though hurricane season is officially over we still check the National Hurricane Center tropical depression\/storm\/hurricane forecasts<\/a>. We are looking for warning signs.<\/p>\n

A favorite is the complete fax coverage<\/a> in a single URL including the surface, 500mb, winds and waves current conditions to 96 hours forecast.<\/p>\n

A new product from the National Hurricane Center in the form of a five day gridded forecast <\/a>with surface winds, \u00a0pressure, and waves for the tropical area south of the fax coverage above. Extends from the West Indies out to mid-Atlantic.<\/p>\n

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\ufeff<\/a><\/p>\n

Passage Weather for a quick look at the GFS GRIB files.\u00a0http:\/\/www.passageweather.com\/\ufeff<\/a><\/p>\n

And finally, we download GRIB files using Saildocs<\/a> and review them in Expedition<\/a> where we run routings (more on this later).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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