A simple, basic, online weather forecast ?

[ianat182]

If you have YAHOO enabled on Mozilla Firefox it has a line of options on the opening display at the top - todays display is of a sun and cloud and 12degreesC, click on this and it gives you a general forecast, add a place name for it to search and it displays the local forecast, (from Weathernet). Below this there is a brief one line entry for the next few days and clicking on any of these days will expand the search in more detail for your searched locality.

ianat182

 

[franksingleton]

Some while ago the BBC stopped its pages of actuals and the pages of the NAVTEX "shipping forecast" texts although they still provide the NAVTEX "extended forecasts" - 3 to 5 days ahead.

I do not know how useful sailors find the "Coastal Forecasts." These are outputs direct from their meso-scale forecasts. These should be better than other meso-scale forecasts because they start from a better analysis and because the Met Office meso-scale model is as good as any, probably better,