Weather Forecasts - Iberian peninsular & Biscay

[alant]

Just brought a boat back from Gibraltar - weather relatively benign, although wind mostly on nose.
Had great difficulty getting any weather info, either from coast stations (info if any, given in a fast garbled manner, even VHF Channel change & not understandable), Navtex - masses of navigational info but little weather, BBC Radio 4 - only heard 46degN.
Apart from website access type comms, anyone got any reliable sources for this route.


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[snowleopard]

had the same problem. there was an english language forecast on vhf from the spanish coastguard at la coruna but that was all i could get. we tended to rely on radio france (15.300 & 11.700 MHz at 11.39 UTC) and weatherfax from northwood which was the best all-round solution.

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[Birdseye]

used the nasa weatherman successfully, but found the best source was the uk maritime mobile net on 14303 mcs

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