JCOMM is dead. Long live WWMIWS

[franksingleton]

The Joint Commission for Oceanogrsphy and Marine Meteorology is now, last year, dead. Their website has been replaced by WMO-IMO WWMIWS. This is an excellent source of High Seas and NAVTEX weather messages worldwide. Its main drawback is that, although you can bookmark URLs for Metareas, you cannot do so for individual bulletins. That is not a problem with good internet access but will be an expensive pain if you are on the High Seas and using satcoms. Using email over HF/SSB, it will be no help at all.
There is a discussion at WMO documents access by email which is related but, in my view, not directly so.

 

[franksingleton]

PS to the above, maybe I should HSS stayed with thst thread. The point about bookmarking is thst you cannot use the Saildocs text retrieval.

 

[Black Sheep]

There are some static URLs in the "bulletinsets" item in the left-hand menu. Gives you the High Seas forecast for your chosen metarea

 

[franksingleton]

There are some static URLs in the "bulletinsets" item in the left-hand menu. Gives you the High Seas forecast for your chosen metarea

As far as I can see, the static URLs, as I said, only get you to the menu for the area. OK with internet connection allowing use of a browser. The Saildocs text retrieval needs the URL of the actual forecast. Using a stphone, thst might not be too costly. With HF/SSB and s modem, no use st all.

 

[Black Sheep]

No - click on the word "Bulletinsets". That takes you to wwmiws.wmo.int/index.php/metareas/bulletinsetlist
which is a table of metareas against message formats (text. html, pdf, json). Any of those will give a static URL for the current High Seas warnings and forecast for that area.
Hence https://wwmiws.wmo.int/index.php/metareas/bulletinset_download/2/txt will always give current High Seas forecast for Metarea 2 in text format

 

[franksingleton]

OK. Thank you. I see, now. Is there any way to get the NAVTEX messages? Maybe not, but it is an improvement on the JCOMM site.