Weather Sources

Weather Sources

Here are some of the sources of weather that we have used which some of you may find useful.

WWW.

www.metoffice.co.uk	The UK Met Office for weather faxes and forecasts: You pay for this service with the purchase of tickets via the MetWeb area. Very good for 5 day forecasts.
www.weatheronline.co.uk	Once you leave the southern tip of Portugal, heading South West, this is an excellent site for all areas of the world including the Canaries & Caribbean.
www.met.ie	Irish weather, useful if like us, you go to Ireland first before crossing Biscay
www.fnmoc.navy.mil/	The US Navy's web site which has some easy to understand wind and wave predictions for a good number of days ahead, although the site is not the easiest to navigate.
www.theyr.net	Again, another useful site with good graphical representations of weather patterns but only really for Europe.

Weather Fax Schedules (Based on the Admiralty list of Radio

Signals Volumes 3(1) & 3(2))

Northwood (UK)	Coverage South up to around 30° North, which gives information almost to the Canaries.
Offenbach Germany	Coverage for Northern Europe and East and West Atlantic
Boston	Useful for the Atlantic crossing covering both East and West areas.
New Orleans	Wind and Wave patterns for the Caribbean Sea area.
H o nolulu	Wind and Wave patterns for the Pacific Ocean.
Pt Reyes California	Wind and Wave patterns for the Pacific Ocean.

Other useful frequencies for Weather and General News etc

Many others can be found in Compass, published in the Caribbean and free!

BBC World Service	AM Frequencies : 198Khz , 6180Khz, 6195Khz, 9410Khz, 12,095Khz, 15,070Khz
Antigua Harbour Radio	VHF Channel 06 at 09.00am every day for the Antigua area. A real treat!
Caribbean Weather (Chris)	08.30AST - Frequency 8104 USB
Caribbean Weather (Chris)	09.00AST - Frequency 12359 USB
Southbound II (Herb)	16.00 AST - Frequency 12359 USB

Here are some Satellite images of Hurricanes which have come close to us during our time in the Caribbean.