Blank Met Office forecast charts ???

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I have spent (i.e. wasted !) a merry 30 minutes trying to find on the internet a (free) blank MetOffice chart on to which one can transcribe the sacred words and data from the Shipping Forecast. Even the RYA Metmaps is text only.

It's a conspiracy since, with dozens of highly graphical sites showing everything from wind direction to density of seahorses per hectare, all I need is the old-fashioned empty template on one page with the sea areas ready for annotation.

Any site links please ?
 
useful, thanks. V speedy. The table is on several sites, and the chart is nearly right yet a little small and indistinct. Perhaps a 2 sided page with the chart on one, and table on the other is what I am looking for.
 
http://www.rya.org.uk/shop/pages/pr...g)&mode=c&cat=Weather(RYA+Main)&type=&course=

The RYA used to sell a pad with about 30 sheets of the shipping forecast areas, coastal stations, tables for coastal reports, the graphic of sea areas and relevant geostrophic scales but I have not seen them for years.

The Met Office also had a simpler chart with coastal stations and sea areas but with no geostrophic scales, it was hard to find a few years ago and I can't find it now (it could be downloaded as A4).

Everyone expects the internet and apps to save the day these days, which is fine, up to a point.

If you are patient I can send you a couple of sheets from the pad I have. The coastal stations might be out of date but the maps are drawn with latitude and longitude lines, geostrophic scales, a hefty chunk of the Atlantic beyond the shipping areas and everything needed to plot a weather chart. You can easily revise one and keep it as a master for copying. I have just arrived at work, so it will be end of January before I can post out. It is the real deal.
 
sarabande said:
I have spent (i.e. wasted !) a merry 30 minutes trying to find on the internet a (free) blank MetOffice chart on to which one can transcribe the sacred words and data from the Shipping Forecast. Even the RYA Metmaps is text only.

It's a conspiracy since, with dozens of highly graphical sites showing everything from wind direction to density of seahorses per hectare, all I need is the old-fashioned empty template on one page with the sea areas ready for annotation.

Any site links please ?
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:confused:

Cant you do something with this

http://www.rya.org.uk/SiteCollectio...Documents/Regulations and Safety/Met_Maps.pdf


Or is it out of date?
 
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sarabande said:
useful, thanks. V speedy. The table is on several sites, and the chart is nearly right yet a little small and indistinct. Perhaps a 2 sided page with the chart on one, and table on the other is what I am looking for.
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You could print it off(deepen the contrast!), cut it in two and find access to a good photocopier to zoom each half toA4 (about 140%, I think) and copy 2 pages to 1, double-sided.
 
Spirit of Glenans said:
You could print it off(deepen the contrast!), cut it in two and find access to a good photocopier to zoom each half toA4 (about 140%, I think) and copy 2 pages to 1, double-sided.
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You can just print the one in the link I gave in #6 straight to A4. Double siding it you wish. Just as Sarabande seems to want

IIRC though the old RYA Metmaps pads were printed in light green. That's better for the chart but i am sure a bit of computer jiggery pokery with a photoeditor could change the colour or at least reduce the contrast.
 
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looks like forum magic again !


I'll run through Vic's (and BOB's) link with the latest format on the MO pages to check for any changes to e.g. Coastal Stations, as the Revision date is May 2003.

Then it looks as if I'm a happy listener and scribe again !


thanks to everyone.
 
if you find the map that you want and print it off as A4. I would recommend that you laminate it so that you can draw or write on it in Wax Pencil while listening to the forecast.
 
Shipping forecast trivia :)

as a snippet of utterly useless information, nevertheless pleasing to the enquiring mind, I have discovered that there is a three-bell change ringing method named "Shipping Forecast Singles". It was composed by Sam Austin and was rung to a peal in 2004 at St John the Baptist, Middleton, Warwickshire. Other three-bell methods by the same composer are named after various shipping areas.


Add that to your next pub quiz, and see who knows the answer !
 
Mister E said:
if you find the map that you want and print it off as A4. I would recommend that you laminate it so that you can draw or write on it in Wax Pencil while listening to the forecast.
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Thanks for the idea. The problem with wax pencils is that they cannot be sharpened to the fine point needed to fill in the small boxes on those templates, some of which are only 4mm high.


Oh, and it looks as if Fife Ness, Sheerness, Lame, and Greenock are no longer sources of data used in the Coastal Reports.
 
I saw pads of Shipping Forecast charts for sale in Todd's, the Bangor (NI) chart agent, last summer. Published by Imray, I think, but I can't find it on their website so I may be mistaken or they may have been old stock.
 
JumbleDuck said:
I saw pads of Shipping Forecast charts for sale in Todd's, the Bangor (NI) chart agent, last summer. Published by Imray, I think, but I can't find it on their website so I may be mistaken or they may have been old stock.
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By a spooky coincidence, searching for this led me here: http://www.ybw.com/forums/showthread.php?385546

This is about the only thing I can find on Todd's site for "pad": http://www.toddchart.com/product/view/22073/rya-wet-notes-pad-zw13
("shipping forecast" returns nothing)

And Imray do this: http://www.imray.com/publications/Bookshop/RB0480/
 
And for those who don't already have them, to accompany the crib sheet suggested by VicS, there were a couple of articles by Simon Keeling in YM Feb and Mar 2011 describing how to draw your charts from the forecast data. I would attach the pdf's here if I knew how!
 
gasdave said:
And for those who don't already have them, to accompany the crib sheet suggested by VicS, there were a couple of articles by Simon Keeling in YM Feb and Mar 2011 describing how to draw your charts from the forecast data. I would attach the pdf's here if I knew how!
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What are the URLs of the pdfs ?
 
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