Weather

[Cardiff Yacht Club]

Cardiff Barrage:
www.cardiffharbour.com/harbour/10.170.1.62/Date_Current_Vantage_Pro.htm

Flatholm:
www.cardiffharbour.com/flatholm/flatholm/Current_Vantage_Pro_Plus.htm

Barry:
www.windguru.cz/int/index.php?sc=6459

Bristol Channel Inshore:
www.bbc.co.uk/weather/coast/inshore/regional_forecast.shtml?9

Shipping Forecast:
www.bbc.co.uk/weather/coast/shipping/

Turbot Bank:
www.bbc.co.uk/weather/coast/buoy/index.shtml?co_turbot_bankbuoy#results

UK Wind Map:
www.xcweather.co.uk/

Long Range:
www.ecmwf.int/products/forecasts/d/charts/medium/deterministic/msl_uv850_z500!Wind%20850%20and%20mslp!240!Europe!pop!od!oper!public_plots!2008082900!!/

[Cardiff Yacht Club]

Downloadable weather charts:
www.findafishingboat.com/free_weather_charts.php

[dazzle]

Useful weather site for those going further afield:
passageweather.com

Bob

[sandpiper]

Superb free weather software (grib file viewer): www.grib.us/

You need to register and download a small program (2.54Mb), but it's well worth the 5 mins effort.

[rose]

These weather sites are very usefull, but one thing we as sailors must bear in mind is that they are only forcasts, and that the wind especially in the BC can vary quite a bit from that forecast.

[Cardiff Yacht Club]

www.passageweather.com/

[Cardiff Yacht Club]

meteonet.nl/aktueel/brackall.htm

Grib files and charts, with Geostrophic scale.

[sheila]

Just thought I'd post a reminder to some of the new members, especially those who are new to the Bristol Channel, of the links at the top of this thread to the current weather conditions at Flat Holm Island and at the barrage, which Vince and I use a lot and find very useful.