Weather

I am not sure where to put  this item but someone can pick it up and run with it.

Users of NAVTEX might like to know that IMO has issued an up to date version of the NAVTEX manual. see  http://www.mikrocontroller.net/attachment/101039/Draft-NAVTEX-Manual_15-09-10.pdf

Those even slower on the uptake than I am may be interested in the zyGrib wind/weather sequence facility. On a zyGrib chart, select a location with the mouse pointer, right click, choose Meteotable. The result will be as the attached picture. Very useful.

GFS GRIB data on the 1/2 degree resoulution Have been  available from Saildocs for some months now. Newly introduved on zyGrib, if you ask for 7 days you will get 8. Presumably, they will amend the menu in time. The app from Weather 4D also has 8 day GFS GRIBs.

For those into hand-held technology, iGrib is a GRIB file viewer for iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch. It is being developed by a CA member (S/V Mojo) and is low cost at £2.99.

New, at least to me, is a website produced by the JOINT OPERATIONAL METEOROLOGY AND

In recognition of the new Biscay section, I have split the "Western Europe" Weather links page into two parts. One is for NW Europe, mainly British Isles waters and the second for Biscay and coasts of Iberia.

Although not directly related to sailing, members and others might be interested in my views on the apparent lack of preparation for severe snow events. See http://weather.mailasail.com/Franks-Weather/Uk-Heavy-Snow-How-Rare

Further to my “discovery£ that Weatheronline provides the UK Met Office meso-scale wind vectors, I have now found that COAMPS forecasts can be obtained in GRIB format for the Mediterranean, British Isles, Biscay, the North Sea and Scandinavia.

Because I rarely look at Weatheronline, I am a year behind the pace in noting that output from the UK Global and the North Atlantic European (NAE) meso-scale versions of the Unified Model are publicly available using a web browser.