LAGOS NAVIGATORS

Weather Web Sites

This list is based on a presentation given by Peter Fox of “Aventura”, in Marmaris in Turkey. Lagos Navigators may find it useful as a source of information for their future travels.

National Office= s

UK Met Office - www.metoffice.gov.uk<= /span>

For Synoptic charts and Satellite pictures= , as well as general information

UK Satellite – http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/= satpics/latest IR.html <= /p>

Satellite pictures for each hour over prev= ious 24 hrs of the North East Atlantic, Europe, Mediterranean, North Africa and Western Russia.

German Met –http://www.wind.met.fu-berlin.de

Satellite pictures for the same as UK Met office from half an hour intervals.

Dutch Met – http//www.meteonet.nl/aktueel/brackall.htm

Synoptic charts (This is a scroll down for each 12 hour forecast)

Portugal Met - Instituto de Meteorologia, IP Portugal

Full range of charts, with very good swell model.

Composite Web S= ites

Wetter Online - http://<= span style=3D'font-size:16.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Arial;mso-hansi-font-family= :Arial; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>www2.wetter3.de/fax.h= tml

Synoptic and weather charts covering the M= et Office; USAF; Wetter; NCEP; Japanese.

This site is particularly good for charts showing:

o&nb= sp; Exeter Synopt= ic charts that can give you a chart for every 6 hours with a little work especially the Mediterranean and Europe

o&nb= sp; Other synoptic charts showing, Rainfall, Snowfall, Fog, Ice pellets, Cloud cover and Thunderstorms with amounts

Weather Underground – http://www.wundergrou= nd.com/global/stations/17298.html

Current weather conditions, with week-to-v= iew, simple charts of weather, wind and temperature. Astronomical timings & = details are also available.

Frank Singleton – http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/franks= weather/

Covers weather advice, forecast sources, essential sites, weather charts, GMDSS texts, mobile phones, GRIB files

Windfinder – http://www.windfinder.com

For wind charts covering most of the World giving 7day coverage it also gives 7 day spot charts of major towns and res= orts. Used to compare and confirm other wind sites.

Windguru – http://www.windguru.com/int/

Has 7-day spot charts for cities and resorts all over the world, covering all aspects of weather.

This site can be subs= cribed to for €17.68 per year and gives very good professional coverage with=

GFS, 9km and 27km models.

Grib Files

Ugrib - http://www.grib.us

For quick use Grib files showing wind, rainfall and MSL pressure including meteograms – These have been very useful for quick and easy downloads and found to be fairly accurate.

Predict wind – http://www.predictwind.com

For excellent wind charts and GRIBs, but a= t a cost.<= /p>

World Weather &= amp; Passage Planning

Ogimet weather - www.ogimet.com<= /span>

For GFS world weather, (synoptic charts showing 500 and MSL pressure with rainfall)

Passage Weather ̵= 1; www.passageweather.com

Excellent weather reports world wide and e= asy to use especially good for sea passages not local information - giving surf= ace winds, surface pressure, wave height, visibility, precipitation, cloud cove= r, sea temperatures up to a week

Tropical storms worldwide – www.solar.ifa.hawaii.edu/Tropical/tropical.html

This is a site that covers tropical storms worldwide and gives pictorial as well as text report= s on their position, direction, speed and wind speeds