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Old 09 May 2007, 18:19   #1
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Does anyone have a weather website they look at which they can recommend??

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Old 09 May 2007, 18:30   #2
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We use ECMWF for looking a few days in advance and the Met Office and BBC sites.
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Try www.greatweather.co.uk
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BBC weather is great - also has tide tables and buoy data etc.

For wind speeds etc the best has to be

http://www.xcweather.co.uk/
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I use these sites
http://www.metcheck.com/V40/UK/HOME/
http://www.xcweather.co.uk/

as well as the met office and bbc

Hope that helps and thanks for the tips on getting more speed out of my rib

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Old 09 May 2007, 18:46   #6
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Try these

http://www.xcweather.co.uk/

For the next one, take the to able to register (free) and you get access to more locations by subscribers under spot search

http://www.windguru.cz/int/index.php?lang=eng

http://www.windfinder.com/windreports/windkarte_gb.htm

http://www.metcheck.com/V40/UK/FREE/




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Old 10 May 2007, 19:57   #7
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Have a look at this for a good 6 day forcast of north atlantic synoptic charts - then make up your own mind what the weather will do

http://meteonet.nl/aktueel/brackall.htm

Also some useful weather links we have included on my brother's website here:

http://www.team-incognito.com/links.htm

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thank you for all the links. xcweather seems to be a good one.

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Bramblemet is great for realtime info in the Solent (or at least it will be when they fix it). You can get it on your mobile too through wap which is dead handy
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https://www.weatheronline.co.uk/

http://www.weatheronline.co.uk/

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Try weather online. The sailing section is very good. Having selected the sailing section click on Great Brittan and it will give you a selection of areas with wind forecasts for a few days ahead.

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I've put a selection of the weather websites that I find most helpful on my website.
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Looking rather intently at the weather for RB08 I've found a couple more good weather sites.

There's a surfing site Magic Seaweed which has some great tools on it, including wave bouy data and a very nifty swell animation

GRIB.US, which has been mentioned before, is also worth a look.

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