Two weather questions

[MidlandsOnSea]

With the Winter months apparently coming to an end, I start looking at the weather for to plan a trip from the South West to the Solent. And I find two developments.

I see that the MetOffice is stopping its MetWeb service, which I've used for some time because I thought the services were great, especially the animated surface pressure chart and the 2 to 5 day planning forecasts. What other sites would you recommend for a replacement service?

The other thing I see is that the forecasts don't mention sea state. Did I miss something? Have they stopped giving sea state forecasts?

If I'm being dense, then I blame it on the long Winter break dulling the brain.

 

[TigaWave]

Surprised no one has answered this one usually there is a deluge of various sites and stations....
This site gives you a huge variety to try out and see which you prefer including wave bouys which ar a great way to see the coming sea state further down the channel.
http://www.greatweather.co.uk/
I tend to use weatheronline.co.uk sail section.

 

[powerskipper]

this has 5 day charts /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif this does wind arrows

 

[fisherman]

http://www.findafishingboat.co.uk/weather.htm

Try the link to theyr.

 

[markdj]

You might want to try out my weather website. Has all the aforementioned links so you can compare forecasts.

http://www.stronge.org.uk

Also if you have a laptop onboard you can download the unlimited demo of Raytech Navigator and use the GRIB data download free daily email subscription from my website. Only 20Kb a day for all UK wind forecasts out to 6 days ahead.

Good cruising


M

 

[ajt]

www.bramblemet.co.uk is quite good and gives tidal info too