Weather software for Grib files

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On this year's summer cruise we were alongside a French boat that was equipped with software for interpreting grib files. Unfortunately I omitted to find the name of the program. It gave detailed and accurate predictions of wind strength and swell height for the Western Mediterranean after inputting the latest info from a local Internet cafe.

I'm very interested in signing up to do the same. I have looked at Frank Singleton's site but it seems rather quiet on specific information. Can anyone recommend a site from which I can obtain some better info, or better still give some experience-based information?

Thanks for all input.
 
Im shocked to find that a seiries of total crashes caused by a bad wi-fi connection (to strong a signal) removed all my bookmarks and grib files!!

I found it first on this forum (i think) i may have found it as well on an amature radion site anyway it certain that all the information about grib will be somewhere in the archives on this site try SSB Wether radio and grib, thats about what i will be doing!

Hope this helps alternatively you could ask "brenden" hes the poster tht has an image of his boat on a sharp rock and seems to know evry post ever made and no doubt the site you shoul go to to full answer your question
 
Here you go....
http://www.siriuscyber.net/wxfax/

Good, simple viewers.

If you have a powerful pc then the Raymarine Raytech software http://www.raymarine.com/raymarine/default.asp?site=1&section=3&page=145&Parent=0 is great. World charts (at a small scale) + full animation of GRIB files. It works completely free of charge for displaying GRIB in the demo mode. Just hit ok when it asks you for the 'licence key'.

The only thing the demo mode doesn't seem to do properly is talk to gps and other instruments.
 
Yes concur with Brendan. The usual way to go these days is to have a PC plotter that overlays Weather files on to the charts.
Maxsea is probably the best at this and you can sign up for their "chopper" grib file service. Later maxsea versions also allow tides, current overlays and radar overlays. Maxsea will also use the various free grib file offerings around, and will give a minimum display of mean windspeed and direction.


Steve
 
another suggestion

you can dowload the demo version of MSCAN, it has a program named FileViewer (IIRC) which allows to perfectly read grib files, without any unwanted additions/deletions usually characterising demo versions
 
Thanks for all the posts. I spent most of Sunday afternoon trawling through all the sites mentioned. Have installed the Raymarine software and find the most useful Grib files are obtained by using the internal facility straight to Raymarine. I don't seem to be able to find swell height information for free. I also downloaded a demo version offered by ocens.com which is able to supply wave and swell info at a price. Unfortunately it seems to conflict with the Raymarine software so I didn't actually see anything. Several other sites supply wave info for cash but I'll keep looking for a free one. USA gov supplies free wave gribs for NW Atlantic but I want Mediterranean.

Thanks to all.
 
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