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Weather forecasting sites & swells

Posted By: Contender

Weather forecasting sites & swells - 01/12/2024 04:10 PM

I use Weather Underground and Windy in the states and it does give fairly good BVI readings.
What other sites are good, especially for current & future sea swell conditions?
Posted By: RatmansWife

Re: Weather forecasting sites & swells - 01/12/2024 05:01 PM

We find Windguru very accurate.
Posted By: Sandsailsun

Re: Weather forecasting sites & swells - 01/12/2024 07:15 PM

Another vote for wind guru
Posted By: Zanshin

Re: Weather forecasting sites & swells - 01/13/2024 07:46 AM

My morning weather check (after looking at the sky) starts with WindGuru, it is low-bandwidth and allows for different weather models as well. But I use several sources:

Windy
NOAA
PredictWind (need to register for a free account with an e-mail address)
Zoom Earth
Blitzortung Live Lightning Map ( I use this to see if I'm going to get squalls/storms, it is a really cool app)

I've got a bunch more for hurricane season and detailed weather. But outside of the hurricane season for day sails or passages such as BVI to St. Martin these are all good. But in a pinch, WindGuru will suffice smile

Note that if you don't have internet, you can still tune your on-board VHF to the NWS weather channel and listen in to the same report that you can get at NWC WXRADIO
Posted By: GeorgeC1

Re: Weather forecasting sites & swells - 01/13/2024 01:19 PM

I mostly use windguru. They are very accurate 3 days out and ok out to 5 days. I also like this site for swell prediction.

http://www.stormsurfing.com/cgi/display.cgi?a=carib_height
Posted By: Kmon

Re: Weather forecasting sites & swells - 01/13/2024 01:34 PM

Here's another one:

https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/data/Forecasts/FZCA52.TJSJ.html
Posted By: Contender

Re: Weather forecasting sites & swells - 01/16/2024 12:29 AM

Thanks to all - very helpful!
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