Weather Gadget

[snowleopard]

Just happened across this on the Met Office website. The gadget puts an icon on the desktop (Firefox & Vista only) that gives you quick access to forecasts including Shipping & Inshore waters. It seems quite handy.

 

[Helina]

Looks nice !

Maybe you could put some pressure on them to provide it to Finland as well.

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[robstracey]

Try gettin these guys to make one for finland

web page

 

[Helina]

No doubt they wouldn't make it - unfortunately there is a limit on my credit card !

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[joe17]

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Looks nice !

Maybe you could put some pressure on them to provide it to Finland as well.

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Helina, I have been using the FMI testbed. It covers the south coast down to Hanko. It is even accessible (and just about readable) from a decent mobile phone browser (Nokia S60). For some reason Harmaja has dropped off the reporting stations - but that is OK because you can observations from there from the normal Helsinki weather page.

http://testbed.fmi.fi/history_browser.php

 

[happyboater69]

Good link

 

[Helina]

Hi Joe,
I've been looking at test bed too, not very bad at all.
As for forecasts I use Lokki on the mobile - like it quite a lot.

 

[joe17]

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Hi Joe,
I've been looking at test bed too, not very bad at all.
As for forecasts I use Lokki on the mobile - like it quite a lot.

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I used Lokki, but found I can get most of it on the normal internet, and most of that is accessible on my phone.

I use :

testbed

Veneily.fi Wind

The FMI Helsinki page with Harmaja selected for the observation

 

[Helina]

The testbed is nice - have to check how it works with my phone N80.
Planning to get Navtex in the near future.