Weather check

[oded kishony]

What's your favorite source for weather information?
What's the worst?
Do you have any equipment on board such as barometer?

Oded Kishony

[Captain Smollett]

I'm strictly inland/coastal right now, so I don't use a lot of offshore resources, but here's my list:

NOAA  (you'll notice the text of these reports is basically what your local weatherman reads on the air)

National Hurricane Center for hurricane info, including sat images, predicted tracks, etc.

NOAA Marina Coastal for coastal data

Weather Underground for near real time NexRad radar

NOAA Weather Maps for the big USA picture

Coast Pilot, T-Tables for general trends when planning for a new area.

and of course, WX stations on my hand held VHF, which has an 'alert' option also.

I have an altimeter from my mt. climbing days that I sometimes use a barameter, and of course, I use the appropriately-named-by-CapnK 'Mark 1 eyeball.'

[oded kishony]

Thanks Caapt S a few sources I didn't know about.

~OK

[s/v Faith]

Add;

http://www.oceanweather.com/data/

[s/v Faith]

Oh, and of course;

Herb Hilgenberg (SHIP-ROUTING and WEATHER FORECASTING
For  Vessels on the  HIGH SEAS
                                                             FIXED HF MARINE LAND STATION VAX498)

[marujo_sortudo]

I believe I read about someone doing a crossing with just a SW radio receiver and a Spot Satellite Messenger and Herb (mentioned above) giving him tailored weather/navigation advice.  Neat low cost option (compared to a HF/SSB transceiver.)