A Few Weather Sites

Squalls, doldrums, heavy seas, gear failures, being tired, being cold are the condition for sailing, part and parcel of the commitment to get from here to there -- not enemies to be eliminated, but companions to be danced with.

- Unknown.

There are at least a zillion weather sites. Check out Yahoo! or one of the many search engines. These are a handful that I have found useful in preparing for the weekend sail. I have no interest in keeping up with weather sites, so this page will not change much, if ever.

Some Useful Weather info

The U.S. National Weather Service: Especially useful here are the marine weatherfaxes.
National Weather Data: NWS info from Ohio State
Java (tm) Demos and Work in Progress: Useful Java applets with weather maps and sat. data from U. Ill.
Current Observation for Thomas Point, MD: A little real-time buoy action.
National Data Buoy Center: The National Data Buoy Center (NDBC), a Department of Commerce agency, deploys buoys throughout the world's oceans and lakes. NDBC also operates many coastal, land-based stations. Meteorological and oceanographic variables such as wind speed and direction and wave conditions are measured hourly by sensors onboard these buoys and land stations.
sci.geo.meteorology FAQ: Ok. So you want more. Check out this extraordinary faq put together by Ilana Stern.
Oceanweather Inc.: A private marine forecasting and consulting firm that makes available some of their data on the web for noncommercial use.
intellicast.com: Marine section of intellicast.com.
Marine Weather dot Com: A bunch of useful info.

Some Weather Services (some require fees)

Jenifer Clark's Gulfstream: Fee service which provides Gulf Stream charts for mariners.
Ocean Strategies: Ocean Strategies is a weather, routing and seamanship technology company, specializing in providing customized routing packages and instruction in weather analysis and interpretation. I took a weather course from Michael Carr, the president of this company.
CoastWeather.com: This business is run as a low-cost subscription service, with lots of free material.

Form last updated: Sun July 27, 1997

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