M A G A Z I N E #13

Weather
nosticated information regarding winds
and waves which are put to the disposal
by the US-Navy. Unfortunately this info is
quite hard to find, if you don’t know where
to look for it. This is why we prepared some
instructions for you how you can find these
charts: On the main page you have to click
on ‘Top Karten’, then you have to click on
NOGAPS in the upper left part in the new
window and scroll down in the middle till
you reach ‘10m wind’. The
figures listed here stand
for a forecast on an
hourly basis. Of course,
you can find much more
information on the website
of wetterzentrale.de,
but we must admit that
it doesn’t belong to the
appealing ones nor can
it be considered as user
friendly.
weather.msn.com
Actually a quite basic
weather service, but okay
for checking weather
conditions of your future
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holiday location. It offers a nice flash-element
which guarantees fun searching for
the weather conditions in various countries.
Simply surf to the following site:
http://weather.eu.msn.com/f5/loader19.swf
?mode=continent&continent=Europe&lan
g=EN
aemet.es
A weather service provided by the Span-
ish government which supplies very good
information on the Mediterranean. Besides
the information on wind velocity and direction,
they also offer information on ultraviolet
rays and the possibility for rain. With
them you have access to a database which
exists already for many years, which therefore
enables you to benefit from various
possibilities of statistic analysis. Of course,
you will also find satellite charts. So if you
want to become a hobby meteorologist,
here you can practice.
Weather365.net
This is a provider who doesn’t only offer actual
and detailed data, but also understands
what users are looking for. So they provide
the whole package as a very comfortable
and user friendly interface. Logging-on to
their website you can benefit from a few
cost-free functions and when you subscribe
to the premium service which bears
a charge you will have access to a really
detailed package of information of weather
conditions and forecasts. In that case you
can also benefit from GRIB-data which are
used for regattas.
Others:
www.wetter.de
www.wetter.com
www.weather.com
… and many more.