Weather Links

Introduction

The links below are ones I have found useful and are working and current as of April 2005. Please do let me know if they break. Do post comments on the Weather Forum so we can all share opinions on which ones are best (or least worst!). Post new link suggestions too.

UK Meteorological Office forecasts

Shipping forecast http://www.meto.gov.uk/datafiles/offshore.html

Inshore waters forecast http://www.meto.gov.uk/datafiles/inshore.html

Poole Harbour Weather

A new weather station for the Harbour! Let us know what you think

http://www.pooleharbourweather.com/weather/

BBC

Regional forecast http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/ukweather/south/index.shtml

5 Day forecast for Poole http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/5day.shtml?id=1187

Purbeck District Council weather station

An excellent on-line station with weather at Peveril Point. It includes historical data for trend analysis. http://www.purbeck-dc.gov.uk/content/weather/index.html

NOAA's Data buoy centre; British Isles

This interesting site gives the latest current data at about 20 buoys around the United Kingdom, including four in the Channel. Data includes wave heights as well as wind speed and direction.  http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/Maps/United_Kingdom.shtml

The Channel Lightship data is on http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=62103 and the Western Channel windpatterns by satellite on http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/quikscat.php?station=62103

BrambleMet

This is another weather station publishing live and historical wind data at the Brample Bank in the Solent. It has links to similar data in Southampton Water and Chichester Harbour. http://www.bramblemet.co.uk/default.shtm

WindGuru

This is a windsurfers favourite! It forecasts wind data for the next four days. Select UK-Poole Harbour for local details

http://www.windguru.cz/int/index.php

Wetter Zentrale

This German site gives us for free  what we UK tax payers have to pay extra for at the Meteorological Office! The full synoptic map of the UK. Select the forecasts for 12 hour periods up to 5 days out using the FAX section at the top of the page frame which accesses all the European synoptic charts. Select the source (HIRLAM is the USAF, DWS the German Weather Service, Bracknell is the UK Met Office. Select then the prediction time  ("Analyse 12h ...etc")

http://www.wetterzentrale.de/topkarten/fsfaxsem.html

The Weather Channel

A good general forecast source. This page gives 10 days' forecasts for Poole

http://uk.weather.com/weather/local/UKXX0113?x=7&y=5