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EAbrams
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Initially Posted - 11/15/2007 :  18:08:31  Show Profile
When I day sail, I just check my local TV station for the weather that day.

What do most of you do for weather when out for a weekend or longer. Those five day or extended forecasts on TV are not very accurate.

I saw XM weather and wondered if it was worth the monthly fee and the cost of purchasing something to receive the signal. Some chartplotters can receive the signal directly.
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Response Posted - 11/15/2007 :  18:26:08  Show Profile  Visit britinusa's Homepage
Ed, we get www.sailflow.com on my web enabled ATT Phone.

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Response Posted - 11/15/2007 :  18:42:25  Show Profile
Since their "upgrade" a few months ago, I find them less helpful than before but, it might be because I'm looking for Great Lakes weather and they're a coast service????????

PaulJ posted a link here to the national weather service that I thought was terrific but, I didn't copy it to my machine and now it's gone from the forum. Hopefully he'll post it again. Only, not so wide this time
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Response Posted - 11/15/2007 :  18:56:44  Show Profile
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by britinusa</i>
<br />Ed, we get www.sailflow.com on my web enabled ATT Phone.

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Thanks Paul
Since cell phone service is starting to cost as much as my cable bill I opted not to get internet. Verizon wants $45.00 just for unlimited web. I do own a Treo 650 and that would be an option.

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Response Posted - 11/15/2007 :  18:58:11  Show Profile
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by John Russell</i>
<br />Since their "upgrade" a few months ago, I find them less helpful than before but, it might be because I'm looking for Great Lakes weather and they're a coast service????????
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John
Whose upgrade? Sailflow?

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John Russell
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Response Posted - 11/15/2007 :  19:00:03  Show Profile
Sorry, Sailflow.
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Response Posted - 11/15/2007 :  19:39:26  Show Profile
I've been checking out the web site. Verizon does offer pay for what ever you use. I can see that getting expensive real fast if one was to go surfing the net.

Can the weather be downloaded to your phone and then end the internet connection?
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Response Posted - 11/15/2007 :  19:47:32  Show Profile
<font color="blue"><font size="4"><font face="Comic Sans MS">Some of my personal sites.....

http://www.nws.noaa.gov/

https://www.navo.navy.mil/

http://www.nwmangum.com/NOGAPS.phtml

http://www.passageweather.com/

Buy a used laptop computer with 802 for $200 and use wireless 802 wireless network free to get on the intrernet.

Look on the internet under...... free 802 wireless sites ...this will give you some insite or maybe outsite.


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OLarryR
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Response Posted - 11/15/2007 :  19:52:12  Show Profile  Visit OLarryR's Homepage
I oftentimes use www.wunderground.com . I like the display and the details section when you hit the link for that day. The detail section provides the temps, winds, rain percentage, etc for every 3 hours. Then I go to the toolbar and go to the marine forecast which is sometimes a bit different and it also provides the tides.

If I forget to check and I on the boat already, then I check the weather using the VHF.
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Response Posted - 11/15/2007 :  20:07:52  Show Profile
<font color="blue"><font size="4"><font face="Comic Sans MS">John Russell


http://www.crh.noaa.gov/greatlakes/

I still have the wide version.

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Response Posted - 11/15/2007 :  20:19:30  Show Profile
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by OLarryR</i>
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If I forget to check and I on the boat already, then I check the weather using the VHF.
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That's really my question. What to do after I'm on the boat a day or two.
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Response Posted - 11/15/2007 :  20:21:02  Show Profile
Paul, Thanks. The one you posted the other day had a table format. How do I get there from here?

I like this one a lot, too.

http://www.weather.com/weather/map/interactive/44870?from=36hour_map_large&zoom=7&interactiveMapLayer=radar
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Response Posted - 11/15/2007 :  20:32:21  Show Profile
Larry - How do you get weather updates on the VHF?
Thanks!
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Response Posted - 11/15/2007 :  20:46:10  Show Profile
<font color="blue"><font size="5"><font face="Comic Sans MS">jerlim

http://www.nws.noaa.gov/nwr/

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Response Posted - 11/15/2007 :  21:03:40  Show Profile
http://www.erh.noaa.gov/cle/marine/marine.html
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Response Posted - 11/15/2007 :  21:28:59  Show Profile
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by jerlim</i>
<br />Larry - How do you get weather updates on the VHF?<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></font id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">In most places, NOAA weather is on Ch. 1. Most newer radios have a WX button that scans for the closest NOAA broadcast and will alert you if there's a severe weather warning.
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OLarryR
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Response Posted - 11/15/2007 :  22:15:40  Show Profile  Visit OLarryR's Homepage
Dave beat me to it !

When I bought my boat and put the VHF on for the first time, Channel 1 is the first channel that pops up and it's the weather station. Dave has the more complete answer.

The only thing is...sometimes they cover some other info before they get to what I really want to know...like what's going to happen during the next 4 - 6 hours.
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Response Posted - 11/16/2007 :  07:08:15  Show Profile
So, is the VHF the place most of you turn to when out on the water for a few days? Paying extra for something like XM weather is nice but not necessary?

Is NOAA weather the same thing as those weather only radios that sound an alarm when they have a special alert to broadcast?

Edit: I see Dave answered my second question
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Response Posted - 11/16/2007 :  07:48:39  Show Profile  Visit DaveR's Homepage
On the boat I'm also a fan of Noaa's forecast. I also have animated radar on my cell via medianet. I just buy 1 megabyte of internet a month from ATT for $7.95. and on the pc I agree with Larry, [url="http://www.wunderground.com/radar/radblast.asp?zoommode=pan&prevzoom=zoom&num=6&frame=0&delay=15&scale=0.209&noclutter=0&ID=MLB&type=N0R&showstorms=0&lat=29.14913940&lon=-81.02513885&label=Daytona%20Beach,%20FL&map.x=400&map.y=240&scale=0.209&centerx=586&centery=752&showlabels=1&rainsnow=0&lightning=0&lerror=20&num_stns_min=2&num_stns_max=9999&avg_off=9999"]Weather Underground[/url] breaks the info down really well. I love the radar zoom and the multiple radar locations.
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Response Posted - 11/16/2007 :  11:13:01  Show Profile
Thanks guys
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Nautiduck
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Response Posted - 11/18/2007 :  14:09:46  Show Profile
VHF Channel 1 for us.
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Response Posted - 11/20/2007 :  17:43:31  Show Profile  Visit piseas's Homepage
The Coast Guard has a local phone number that I call. He or she gives a recorded marine weather report for my area. Its very accurate and complete. Plus I use the sites others have mentioned above. I don't think there is a need to pay for it.
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