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Beaufort Scale - summary with Beaufort Scale / knots / mph / conditions.

Beaufort Scale - good explanation from the Met Office.

Meteorology - excellent introduction from UKDivers.net.

Marinecall Weather Services have a free booklet which is worth having as it gives tide times for Dover, Plymouth and Portsmouth together with constants for 70 ports round UK as well as their contact numbers, forecast locations and a wealth of other useful info.

Marine Safety Information (MSI) broadcast schedules - from the UK Coastguard - Inshore & Area Forecasts on marine VHF. Similar information for Ireland.

Marine Safety Information (MSI) - Scotland - .pdf with Broadcast schedules - Inshore & Area Forecast times on marine VHF - includes map with locations of CG aerial locations in Scotland. Broadcast schedules are also included in the UKSKGB "Easy Reference" .pdf's for Scotland - Western England & Wales - Eastern England.

Satellite images from the Dundee Satellite Receiving Station.

Understanding the Shipping Forecast & Inshore Waters Forecasts - explanation of the format and terms used in the Forecasts.

Understanding Wind (part 1) /Understanding Wind (part 2) - highly informative .PDF Factsheets from Cailean MacLeod explaining the effect of wind on sea paddling.

Weather - article on understanding weather from the BBC, with background on how the weather works.

General Weather Forecasts

BBC Weather - as good as any.

Channel Coastal Observatory provides some wave, tide and meteorological data.

Ireland, the Met Eireann site.

MetMarine.com provide world wide marine weather forecasts for skippers, in English direct to UK registered mobile phones, for the Med, Greek and Turkish waters. See also sailingissues.com for VHF broadcast info for similar areas.

Marinecall "is the UK's leading provider of telephony-based weather information for coastal, inshore and offshore UK sea areas. We supply all sorts of weather reports to meet every need". Marinecall Mobile allows you to obtain forecasts by "text", WAP or MMS message. MetWeb is a subscription based service, offering detailed online forecasting.

Stronge.org.uk pulls several weather sources onto one site.

Theyr are back on line with their versatile and helpful site giving a good overview of winds, temps and precipitation (or even rain!) Easy to follow graphs and the wind-speed graph is especially helpful. (As of May 2006 this site requires subscription)

Weather Online offers a comprehensive set of weather data, including some interesting historical data and a sailing forecast.

Weather Outlook

Windfinder - superb site with excellent visuals - 6 day forecast with wind speed, direction, cloud cover etc. Select the area you want from the main map.

WindGURU - very similar to Windfinder (same source??) also with 6 day forecasts. The link is set to Oban - select the area you want.

XCWeather.co.uk offers live wind & pressure data for the UK - superb site.

Met Office sites

Click to Listen to the current forecast on BBC Radio 4 - (requires sound and an appropriate player)

Inshore waters forecast

Shipping forecast

Main UK Met Office site

Observations & trends are shown here.

Sailing Clubs & other "Yachtie" type sites

Banff Sailing Club also has some nice direct links to general weather sites and proper Bracknel synoptic charts for 24, 48, 72 and 96 hours at http://www.btinternet.com/~banffsailingclub/weather_links.htm

Online Weather's Sailing Forecast

Southampton Water - Bramblenet has local data. As does Chichester Bar.

Yachting & Boating World brings Weather, Tides and Synoptic charts all together here - charts are a bit small, but useful none the less - they have a useful "24 hour history" wind graph linked from the Forecast Data pop-ups.

Synoptic charts & Technical weather sites

Airport information and weather www.tmdg.co.uk/weather/ - Current windspeed and dir (METAR) and 18 hour forecast (TAF) at UK airfields. You need to enter the 4 letter airfield identifier from this site: www.nws.noaa.gov/tg/siteloc.shtml

European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting has lots and lots and lots of techy stuff http://www.ecmwf.int/

Scotlandonline.com - UK 3-5 day inshore outlook from the met office for free!

Synoptic Charts - present, 24 hours, 48 hours, 72 hours

Westwind has lots of lovely technical stuff, if you understand it!

Wetterzentrale is a nice German technical site, in German! But http://www.wetterzentrale.de/pics/bracka.html will give you a proper synoptic chart for Europe!

Surf & Wave Prediction Data Sources

A1 Surf - viewer friendly surf site with wave data, forecasts and summaries for all the major surf spots in the UK.

Channel Coastal Observatory provides some wave, tide and meteorological data. Good wave data for eastern channel - seems to have wave bouys that the
big site doesn't

magicseaweed.com - brings you detailed surf forecasts, surf reports, surf webcams, wave buoys, surfing photos and more surfing information all updated every six hours from the latest available data.

National Data Bouy Centre - the original data source for most of the previous sites, this takes you straight to the raw info!

NOAA weather buoys See what's coming, wind speed, direction, air temp, dew point, air pressure and trend, wave height, period and sea temp.

Wavenet, DEFRA's "Strategic Wave Monitoring Network for England and Wales" - lots of good stuff on waves, including bouy data for England & Wales.