Another Good weather site.

Just looked at it - it seems remarkably like a grib file with different colours. Or the NOAA surface charts. I am beginning to wonder whether all these sites, inclduding Windguru and windfinder all just use the same base data. Over the last few months they have all been pretty consistently wrong on the same occasions. Now if someone could find a site that actually forecasts not just what is going to happen but what is even happening at the moment and reasonably accurately, I would be delighted!!!!
 
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Just looked at it - it seems remarkably like a grib file with different colours. Or the NOAA surface charts. I am beginning to wonder whether all these sites, inclduding Windguru and windfinder all just use the same base data.

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when the person that runs the site introduced it here in the forum a few months ago, he/she said they are GFS grib files, indeed the most commonly available source of wind vector forecast in the internet
 
I also use Caribwx as well. I guess the point I am making is that if all these sites use the same base data then it is only a matter of presentation and any baseline errors appear everywhere. An independant and differently sourced site would be of great help.
 
Tried the txt from Mailasail? Email help-text as subject to weather@mailasail.com for options. Handy if low bandwidth connection. Presumably there's been a person involved along the way as well instead of just straight from a computer. Worth a look.
 
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Tried the txt from Mailasail? Email help-text as subject to weather@mailasail.com for options. Handy if low bandwidth connection. Presumably there's been a person involved along the way as well instead of just straight from a computer. Worth a look.

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I'm pretty sure that their service is just a 'pass through' straight to the NOAA service.
 
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I'm pretty sure that their service is just a 'pass through' straight to the NOAA service.

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Probably is. Metarea2 seems to be from METEO-FRANCE. Useful though if you have email access but no web, espec combined with a grib fom the same place.
 
It's a nice site and fast to load but it seems this passageweather.com website is frame-based, meaning it is difficult to bookmark a specific page/location/weather chart. This might be an annoyance if you are on low or expensive internet connection.
 
Her is a list I put on Scuttlebut about a month ago. Passage weather is a favourite of mine.

GOOD INTERNET WEATHER FORECAST SITES

Passageweather
Excellent for world wide coverage. 7-day prediction of Wind Strength, Synoptic Charts, Wave Height,Precipitation,Visibility, Sea temperature and local forecasts. Gulf Stream strength and direction
Very easy to use
Plus weather information for Major Yacht Race Venues e.g. Fastnet, Sydney Hobart etc
www.passageweather.com

Wind Guru
Good site if you happen to be a selected location.
Bias towards surfers. Pro. version available
www.windguru.com/int/index.php?typ=none


WeatherOnline
Good worldwide coverage of wind and rain
www.weatheronline.co.uk

XCweather
This is good for UK wind and weather. Quick and easy.
www.xcweather.co.uk/

Fukgesteuerte Wetterstaion
Synoptic chart for Atlantic and Europe Same as Met. Office but free.
www.wetterzentrale.de/pics/bracka.html

EuroWeather
Good site with hour by hour ecord of windspeed, pressure etc
Choose your own location. Useful table with weather around Europe.
You are not alone in the wind and rain!!
http://www.eurometeo.com/english/home

Printout of the UK shipping forecast
Say no more!
http://www.opc.ncep.noaa.gov/shtml/UKMOFFAT

Frank Singleton’s Weather for Sailors
Excellent site with masses of info.Europe and America
Frank sails a HR34 so emphasis is on sailing info.
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/franksweather/

Met Office Satellite Animation
Fascinating to see the weather systems roll in. Slow to load
www.metoffice.gov.uk/satpics/latest_uk_vis.html

Windfinder
Worldwide coverage, mobile phone friendly.
Leads to some of the other sites listed here
http://www.windfinder.com/

Mark Stronge’s UK Weather Portal
Good for UK but many other links from the site+ GRIB files
UK Tide tables, Surf forecast. Freeware GRIB downloader software
www.stronge.org.uk/marine.html





Ant Veal’s Great Weathe
Another portal for UK weather forecasts plus unusual data e.g. Lightning strikes!
10-day weather and 6 hourly reports. Pro. And amateur reports. Road reports.
Archived data from 1899, Webcams across the UK. Masses of stuff!!
http://www.greatweather.co.uk/

Wunderground
Some interesting alternative locations. Heat index, Windchill, Humidity
Worldwide coverage
http://www.wunderground.com/


Sat24.com
More European satellite animations with rainfall radar etc
Faster load up than Met Office satpics. Open up and the clods are on the move!
http://www.sat24.com/frame.php?html=view&country=gb&sat=vis

UGRIB weather data for free
Has the GRIB.US data which is incorporated into many other sites
Some interesting leads from this site.
www.navagear.com/2007/04/ugrib-weather-data-for-free/

Magic Seaweed
Cool site for surfers. Interesting data on swell height and period plus wind strength
Webcans and spectacular photos. Animated GFS grib data
http://magicseaweed.com/
 
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It's a nice site and fast to load but it seems this passageweather.com website is frame-based, meaning it is difficult to bookmark a specific page/location/weather chart. This might be an annoyance if you are on low or expensive internet connection.

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PassageWeather.com is iframe based, but bookmarking any page will work just fine...

And there's also an interface for using a low-bandwidth internet connection, check out http://www.passageweather.com/download.htm
 
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