Marine

All the best of marine forecasts for the UK, mainland Europe as well as GRIB files available for anywhere in the world.

SEA AREAS

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/marine/shipping_forecast.html

Met. Office Shipping

http://www.opc.ncep.noaa.gov/shtml/UKMOFFAT

UK Shipping Forecast - Server 2 - Server 3

http://www.opc.ncep.noaa.gov/shtml/UKMHSFAT

High Seas Metarea 1

http://www.opc.ncep.noaa.gov/shtml/FRAHSFAT1

High Seas Metarea 2

http://weather.gmdss.org/I.html

GMDSS World Shipping

http://www.frisnit.com/navtex/

Live European Navtex

http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/raw/wo/wont54.egrr..txt

Storm Warnings

INSHORE

http://news.bbc.co.uk/weather/coast_and_sea/

BBC Sea and Coastal Waters

http://www.metcheck.com/HOBBIES/inshore.asp

Metcheck Inshore Forecast

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/marine/inshore_forecast.html

Met.Office Inshore Waters

http://www.met.ie/forecasts/sea-area.asp

Met.Eireann Inshore Waters

http://www.weatherweb.net/uksail.htm

WeatherWeb Sailing Forecasts

http://www.windfinder.com/forecasts/wind_british_isles_akt.htm

Windfinder

http://www.accuweather.com/ukie/sailing-forecast.asp

AccuWeather Inshore Forecast

SURFING / Wave height forecasts

http://magicseaweed.com/

Magic Seaweed 6 day

http://www.windguru.cz/int/index.php?sc=71

Wind Guru

http://www.metcheck.com/HOBBIES/surfing.asp

Metcheck Surf

http://www.getaforecast.com/surf.php

Big G’s Surf

GFS and WW3 forecasts

http://www.xcweather.co.uk/

XCWeather with local reports -Mobile v2 - Mobile v1

http://www.windguru.cz/

Wind Guru 3 Day Forecast

http://www.passageweather.com/

Passage Weather - Mobile

http://www.oceanweather.com/data/NorthSea/index.html

Ocean Weather Wave heights

GLOBAL GRIBs

GRIB files are weather data files containing grided meteorological data
They require a GRIB file viewer to view the weather data (See FREEWARE below)
They are used to distribute weather information (usually mean wind speed and isobars)
Benefits are a small file size for transfering over mobile internet

SailDocs GRIB data e-mail query (at) saildocs.com 4 more info. 1 degree resolution to 7 days at 6hr intervals 25Kb

http://www.zygrib.org/

ZyGrib – Very detailed Grib file downloader/viewer – Highly Recommended

http://www.gpsnavx.com/GRIB/

Online Saildocs GFS grib file request

http://www.globalmarinenet.net/grib.htm

GlobalMarine Wave Watch 3 GRIB 7 day forecast

http://www.raymarine.com/raymarine/Default.asp?site=1&Section=3&Page=149&Parent=3

Raymarine 3 day forecasts 1 degree resolution to 3 days at 6hr intervals 100Kb

http://www.grib.us/

GRIB dot US downloader/viewer

Synoptic, Wind and Wave Charts

All are listed on the Weather Charts page

TIDES

http://www.yr.no/place/United_Kingdom/England/Liverpool~2644210/advanced_map.html

British Isles tidal currents by Norwegian Met.

http://www.fisica.uniud.it:8080/zones/:Europe/

Yearly tide tables by Xtide

http://www.tidetimes.org.uk/

TideTimes UK

http://easytide.ukho.gov.uk/EasyTide/EasyTide/SelectPort.aspx

UKHO 7 day Tide Tables

http://www.ntslf.org/tides/predictions

Proudman Oceanographic Tides

http://tides.mobilegeographics.com/

Global Tides with iCal

http://news.bbc.co.uk/weather/coast_and_sea/tide_tables/

BBC tides

OBSERVATIONS

http://www.xcweather.co.uk/

XCWeather with local reports -Mobile v2 - Mobile v1

http://www.marine.ie/home/publicationsdata/data/buoys

Met. Eirann Buoys

http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/maps/United_Kingdom.shtml

NOAA Buoy data - Mobile

http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/obs.shtml?lat=55.727110&lon=-7.031250&zoom=4&type=h&status=r&pgm=&op=&ls=false

Google Maps View

http://www.wunderground.com/MAR/ukm.html

Weather Underground UK Buoy Observations

http://www.dotet.co.uk/

Isle of Man Weather Stations

SST

http://www.wetterzentrale.de/pics/brack5.gif

Met.Office Sea Surface Temperature for UK

http://www.wunderground.com/MAR/ukm.html

WUnderground Sea Surface Temperature for Europe

http://www.windfinder.com/weather/water_surface_temperature_europe.htm

Windfinder Sea Surface Temperature for Europe

http://coastobs.pol.ac.uk/cobs/sat/

Irish Sea Surface Temperatures by Liverpool Bay Coastal Observatory

FREEWARE

GRIB file downloader and viewer in one by GRIB.US
GRIB viewer ViewFax from SailMail (Requires you to create a folder to install the program into) Highly recommended
SeaLights Night Navigation Simulation Software
Software On Board navigation software which can display GRIB files and generate emails for SailDocs server

LINKS

Visit My Harbour Free navigation charts for harbours
UK Sail.com
Frank Singleton’s complete weather information for Sailors
Ant Veal’s Great British weather Links
Boats for sale on Yachting and Boating World

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