Decent weather link for western france. Wind speeds.

[moondancer]

For this country I use xcweather.co.uk which work very well. Does anyone know an equivelant that works for Western France?

I have a need to know the expected wind direction for next week!

Many thanks

Brian

 

[AIDY]

yes xcweather just click on the french flag on the top left hand side to change to french charts. you could try magic seaweed.

 

[jhr]

I always find Windguru very useful. Here's Les Sables d'Olonne for example.

 

[westernman]

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I always find Windguru very useful. Here's Les Sables d'Olonne for example.

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For where I am (Leucate), I find Windguru pretty much wrong pretty much most of the time.

Windfinder is a little better. Unfortunately the best is to call up what they call a surtaxed number for Meteo France.

However, Leucate may be a bit particular......

 

[ebbtide]

I also find meteo France useful - they have a website you know.

 

[westernman]

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I also find meteo France useful - they have a website you know.

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But you getter a better more local forecast if you call the surtaxed number - at least my experience so far.

 

[Cloven]

Converted to UGRIB this season - has been pretty reliable so far.

 

[ChrisE]

Not sure about xcweather for French and UK for that matter. Tends to be a bit optimistic for my liking.

Fr'instance on Sat xcw gave east 10-12knots across the channel and in the event we had east/north east 14 to 24. Admittedly, there was a fast moving front coming through but compared with the shipping forecast for Wight which gave e/ne 4-5 occ 6 for the same period, I'll be a little more cautious of xcweather in future.

 

[LostinFrance]

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Converted to UGRIB this season - has been pretty reliable so far.

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Wasn't on Saturday on the Gironde. I downloaded charts on Friday night and Saturday morning before racing and got my fingers burnt (literally when some wkr didn't cleat in the spi halyard when I yanked it up from the mast) with the predicted 3-4 when it was 5 with squalls. Direction was spot on though.