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Mariners Guide Mariners weather guide to the Gulf of Alaska Coastal Waters, including the Inside Passage, Prince William Sound and the Kodiak Island Waters. |
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Text reports Graphic index by region. |
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Inside Passage Weather Text, maps, and images, for BC and AK inside passage. This is the custom set of links we use for our onboard courses while underway.
Very valuable for R2AK |
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Mariners Guide Environment Canadas Mariners Guide |
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Selected observations. Includes 24h and 30-day histories.
West Point
Smith Island
Tatoosh Island
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Coastal waters 60 to 250 nmi For WA and OR. Text forecast and with buoy reports. |
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Combined plot SeaTac airport combined plot of all wx data for 24hr. Great for learning how weather patterns behave.
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Ferry Reports Real-time data from WA State Ferry system. A wonderful resource. |
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Forecast meteograms Plots of temp, press, wind speed and direction, clouds, and more for past and future hours along Pacific NW waters. Note these are computations. Real meteograms of past observations are also available. An excellent way to anticipate good times for checking barometers. |
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Graphic Plot Graphic Plot of WA Reports. Gives excellent overview.
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Live Ferry Cams Have a nice look at Pacific NW waterways and also check to see how much traffic might be waiting for ferries. In the summertime, there is often a wait of several hours to use the ferries. |
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MM5 maps MM5 model predictions are weather maps that take into account the local terrain. Very detailed predictions of winds near shore that would not be obvious from regular weather maps or even text/voice forecasts. Choose out to 72 hours. Loops also available. |
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Radar Image WA state weather radar image. To see where it is raining.
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Swiftsure or Vic-Maui Start Observations and forecasts along the Strait of Juan de Fuca |
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Text reports Graphic interface to each region. |
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Historical storms in the Pacific NW Wonderful in-depth illustrated discussion of all of the bad storms in the Pacific NW. |
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San Francisco currents tides and currents for various locations, live and predicted. |
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San Franciso Bay Real time reports of wind fields, wx reports, tides, currents and so on. A unique live presentation from USCG in collaboration with NOAA. |
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Swells Animations of present forecasts of swell height, direction, and period, along with wind and pressure. These are grib data model forecast animations, so we do not know for sure what model they are using, but they are certainly nice looking, if not accurate. |
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Text reports Graphic interface to each region. |
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UW mega site Very many excellent resources here, including option to plot out past data of any type for any time period, real time data, weather cameras, ultra hi-precision barometer readings, graphic weather loops for all regions, and very much more. |
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Channel txt reports graphical interface to channel reports |
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lumahai.soest.hawaii The main source of Hawaii weather, follow the links to find whatever you want. |
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Text Reports Graphic interface to each region. |
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Trans Pac and Pacifc WX This is a custom webpage we made for quick access to data without graphics, suitable for satellite links if other sources fail, and very convenient for on-land planning. |
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Netherlands Antilles Rescue and other services available in this group of 5 islands plus Aruba, along with related links of interest in the Caribbean, including weather and a nice pdf article on overview and storm prep in the region. |
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Text Reports Graphic interface to each region. |
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Text Reports Graphic interface to each region. |
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Text Reports Graphic interface to each region. |
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Text Reports Graphic interface to each region. |
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Australia Text reports and forecasts and maps. Check both public and registered marine weather links. |
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Australian weather services A commercial site with many fine presentations of AU wx, including an extensive wx glossary. |
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New Zealand All data and maps. Great for monitoring America's Cup conditions. Also has tutorials on NZ weather. |
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New Zealand wx Many sources and links. See especially the top one to another list of NZ wx links. |
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Radio Fax schedules VMC & VMW Radio Fax Schedule, with links to the products involved. Other links explain the services and regions covered.
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Europe An excellent list of European weather sources. |
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NE Atlantic and Europe All of the Bracknell weather charts are available by email in convenient format and actually nicer than the ones on the main met office web site. This page explains how to access them. Note that the analysis and 24-hour forecasts are available four times a day,
the 36/48/60/72-hour forecast are available twice a day (after 0700 and 1900UTC),
the 84/108/132-hour forecasts once a day, available approximately mid morning,
and the 96/120-hour forecasts once a day, available after 2300UTC.
For those in waters around the UK or in the North-East Atlantic the main Shipping Forecast and the High Seas Forecast issued by the Met Office at Exeter can be accessed using this service as well.
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The Very Useful UK Weather Page Convenient links to Bracknell weather maps and other sources. |
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Real Time Oceanography Real time oceanography of the Great Lakes |
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Forecast maps Nowcast, 24-hour, 48-hour, and 72-hour wind-wave forecast for the eastern Pacific Ocean. Wind values are in knots and combined wind/sea wave heights are in feet. The forecasts are presented as black & white gifs.
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Streamline analysis 850 mb streamline analysis updated twice a day over the route + even better ones at 1000mb |
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Wide area surface analysis Center of Marquesas at about 9° 23' S, 139° 27' W
(1)Wide area surface map showing whole route (00,06,12,18Z)
Analysis covers the region from 20°S to 50°N between the Greenwich Meridian westward to 160°W. |
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US coastal nowcasting We are not really sure where this new service is going, but it looks interesting and worth watching. If nothing else, it is an interesting source of quick online maps of waterways. |
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