Introduction
The links below are ones found to be useful and working as of May 2012. Please do let us know if they break. Do post comments on the Forum so we can all share opinions on which ones are best (or least worst!). Post new link suggestions too.
UK MetOffice Forecasts
Marine Weather: http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/marine
Shipping forecast: http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/marine/shipping_forecast.html
Inshore waters forecast:
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/marine/inshore_forecast.html#SelseyBilltoLymeRegis
Bournemouth 5 Day forecast:
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/forecast/bournemouth? tab=map&map=SignificantWeather
Poole Harbour Weather
An on-line weather station within the Harbour
http://www.pooleharbourweather.com/weather/
Swanage Weather Station
An on-line weather station at the NCI Coastwatch hut at Peveril Point.
http://217.154.121.34/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
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
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