Weather forcasts in Croatia

[dunedin]

Any recommendations for best sites to get weather forecasts in Croatia ?

Also, are the VHF forecasts given only in local language or also English ?

thanks

 

[Refueler]

Any recommendations for best sites to get weather forecasts in Croatia ?

Also, are the VHF forecasts given only in local language or also English ?

thanks

Via internet - I use Weatherunderground .... seems to have more locations than most.

This is Croatia listing ... choose nearest station to what you want ...

http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/hdfForecast?query=Croatia&searchType=WEATHER

 

[dunedin]

Great thanks -looks useful so bookmarked this site

Looks like the VHF forecasts are in 4 languages includung English so all sorted, thanks

 

[Refueler]

I find I add 15% to wind speed forecasted as it is referenced to 10m height and steady rate. That seems to then agree with what I find out there. But I find that applies to many weather sites anyway ..

Only niggle ... most use m/s now - but site insists on Km/hr ...

 

[cgull]

I have found the forecasts in English very difficult to understand and use reliably, they seem to be just read out from a standard script.

I looked at www.weatheronline.co.uk/marine/weather Adriatic North Wind Charts recently.
Next time i go there next year I will take laptop for internet access hopefully.

Been there twice this year. Couple of weeks ago it was very windy, Bora conditions, frequent gusts of 25 kts from almost zero, most days

 

[rtchina]

croatia weather

this is our second season here in Northern Croatia. Problem is that the weather can be very local. The mountains along the coast can produce high winds, whereas a bit futher out and all is reasonable. Not that we find the Bora unreasonable. We get to go south pretty quickly and it keeps the powerboats in harbour.
WWW.Windfinder.com is pretty good but I have found their predictions to be up t 12 hour out. Better accept the fact that there is a lot of good shelter, and the water is deep, so make the most of it.

 

[ReneJK]

I have always used Buoyweather "2 day free forecast" , http://www.buoyweather.com/index2.jsp

you can even make a website, with widgets from that site , of the area that you are sailing and make something very simple and easy to look at like so

http://members.casema.nl/rene.kesting/holiday/kroatie_weer.html

when you become a premium / paying member its also possible to have the forecasts e-mailed or through SMS

 

[Refueler]

Why not go for Ugrib.us service ... free - downloads in seconds on demand any area you select ... runs an animated sequence or stops as you want ... very good. That and weatherunderground gives me all I need .. OK I'm Baltic - but I've checked and both give Croatia ...

 

[dunedin]

So just got back last night. Liked the weatherunderground site a lot - worked fine from my mobile phone, but more importantly only had little round sun icons for a full week - perfection

 

[Jobs a good un]

Try www.meteo-info.hr its a local site and in my 2 years there found it best good luck

Regards

Mark

 

[RichardS]

You will find that these pages from the English pages of the official Croatian weather site, dhmz, are excellent. The first page gives you a 24 hour prognosis and is the one that will be broadcast on the VHF. It is updated twice per day. The second link to "Aladin" is excellent. It gives a pictorial forecast at 6 hourly increments for the next 72 hours updated each day. It predicts local anomolies very accurately and is easily used with the colour codings roughly following the beaufort scale (when it gets beyond dark green stay in the cafe bar). I have used this for about five years. It does not take long to download each page. It is pretty accurate especially with timing of changes. A great passage planning tool.

http://www.dhmz.htnet.hr/prognoza/prognoze_e.php?id=jadran_e&param
http://www.dhmz.htnet.hr/prognoza/karte_e.php?id=dada&param=st&it=06

Agreed - after 2 years visiting Croatia I rely on this site. It's been very accurate for me.

I bought a Vodafone dongle in the Vipnet store in Trogir for about £30 - plug it in my PC and get 24 hour internet virtually anywhere - even in the north of Vis Island which is about as far off the mainland as you can get. The south of Vis is just about out of signal reach unless you are lucky.

Charge it up for £20 and get enough download for 2 weeks of daily weather, email, surfing and even the BBC news!

Just like home but with the sun!

Richard

 

[saltymike]

Try Split Radio

Have sailed in Adriatic for some 20 years, and found Split Radio navtex (in English) to be reasonable. They also broadcast voice in mostly english - you have to listen, I think they start the weather in Croatian, then Italian, then German (?) then english.
Hope this helps!

 

[GULET]

Weather forecast over VHF is for sure on English. I know, I am local. And there is always a way to contact someone local and to check what is the weather forecast

 

[billreilly]

Have a look at PassageWeather.com:

http://www.passageweather.com

They cover the whole world, with Croatia and the Adriatic covered in this region:

http://www.passageweather.com/maps/adriatic/mappage.htm

Bill

 

[CJ13]

Use Navtex

We spent 5 seasons in Croatia.
Navtex was the only reliable source of weather we found. Broadcasts in english twice/ day plus additional warnings if a Bora is due. Forecasts are produced locally so much more specific than internet based models.
We found the VHF english language braodcasts difficult to understand and were often out of range.