Bay of Biscay, Websites - Marine Weather

[Edu]

Hello,

I´m looking for websites with weather charts for Bay of Biscay. So far the best I´ve found is this Sailing Weather - Marine Weather Forecasts for Sailors and Adventurers - PassageWeather

What else´s out there that´s worth a look?

thanks
ed

[redbopeep]

Passage weather is useful for forward looking forecasts (up to 5 days) but you can't save the information. A better choice could be to use zyGrib link which does the same stuff but you can save the files. Similar is UGrib link.

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You have many choices for weather forecasting while at sea including radio based info and weatherfaxes.
Many cruisers use grib files obtained via radio based email. Grib files are available via email or ftp. Free. Take a look at saildocs.com
The above link includes links to other sources of Grib files.



Inmarsat Coverage Map

METAREAs are usually divided into sea areas for weather forecast broadcast using INMARSAT-C, NAVTEX, VHF, MF/SSB and HF/SSB radio.

METAREAs or NAVAREAs are regions of the oceans for which specified nations have the responsibility for the co-ordination of the provision of meteorological and other marine safety information. For METAREAs look at the above link and image of a coverage map which shows all METAREAs worldwide. METAREAS I, II, III and IV, covering the North Atlantic and the Mediterranean are the responsibility of the UK, France, Greece and the USA respectively.

[edsailing]

And, of course, you can get Navtex in Biscay and all the way down the coast and offshore.

[Edu]

Thanks for the replies,

There´s link at passage weather that says "download all the wave/wind/pressure forecast images .zip file" so I think one does can save the charts provided by the website.

I will take a look later on at all this links and info, thanks a lot.

ed