Weather & other useful links for cruising in
Ireland.
Current & immediate weather.
Sea Area
forecasts, (Met Eireann).
Isobar,
Rainfall, Cloud & Temperature charts, (Met Eireann).
Coastal reports &
Sea Crossings forecasts. (Met Eireann).
Current rainfall pattern on
radar.
Current rainfall on radar.
Fast updating rainfall radar image.
3 hour forecasts (1
hPa isobars, rainfall & isotachs.) (Met Eireann).
Shipping Forecast (UK Met Office, Exeter).
Offshore buoys data. M1, M2, M3, M4, M5 & Marathon Gas Field.
(Marine Institute).
Current
weather & wave heights from shipping.
Current wave heights.
Wavenet.
Current wind.
Current satellite image.
Current visible satellite image.
German
Aerospace Centre most recent satellite image.
SkyLink
Weather Satellite image.
Animated satellite pictures.
Large
Satellite picture.
Shannon current weather.
Surf
reports.
West Coast wave patterns.
Meteosat 7. for
current pressure, visibility and wind speed.
Dun Laoghaire
Harbour current weather conditions.
Theyr.net (Bjorn
Erlingsson).
Quikscat
chart.
Quikscat from KNMI.
SFC wind speed
chart.
Current fronts, cloud cover and pressure.
(Windfinder.Kiel.)
"Breaking News" weather.
MeteoConsult.
Great Blasket to Hag's Head 24 hour wind
forecast.
"2 Day Plus" weather forecasts.
OGIMET
charts.(Guillermo Ballester Valor).(Recommended.)
Magic Seaweed MSLP & Precipitation charts.
(Recommended.)
16 day forward, NCEP based, MSLP charts.
Magic Seaweed swell charts.
Magic Seaweed wind charts.
Wetsand 7 day swell forecast.
Passage Weather 7 day surface
pressure and wave height charts.
7 day synoptic charts. James McGregor.
North Atlantic weather systems. James McGregor.
SkyLink
Weather 3 day charts.
Météociel's
synoptic, precipitation etc., charts.
Stormsurf's surface winds animation from zero hours to 180
hours.
Swiss Meteosail featuring DWD synoptic charts and Windfinder
forecasts.
Weatherweb Irish coasts.
Weatherweb Lundy, Fastnet & Irish Sea.
Weatherweb West Sole & South Shannon.
Weatherweb North Shannon.
Bracknell's
synoptics all on one page. (Dutch Meteonet.)
Exeter charts.
(Martin Stubbs.)
Bracknell's Synoptics (via Westwind, Markus Pfister).
Synoptic
charts via Zeilen.
European Centre for Medium Range Forecasts. (Reading,
UK.)
NCEP's Medium Range Forecasts.
9 GFS
charts on one page. (Wetterzentrale.)
Wind
Flow Movies from Meteoblue.
WeatherOnline Wind.
Czech Wind Guru (Vaclav Hornik).
Accuweather sailing forecast.
Metcheck 48 hour forecast.
Metcheck 7 Day forecast.
Metcheck 14 Day forecast.
WeatherOnline Wave Height forecast charts.
Meteosim (Catalunya.) Wave Watch 3 charts.
Wind forecast from Kiel, Germany.
Virtual buoys.
Storm Forecasts. (Experimental site.)
European Weather Awareness
Site.
Weather singularities.
Weather Links sites.
Ocean Prediction Centre of NOAA site of weather
links.
Weatherjack.
Starfish Surf
Company weather links.
Surf Forecasts
site page of weather links.
"Falling Rain's" worldwide
weather.
Metbrief's
weather links.
Tafs & Metars.
ICAO codes; Cork, EICK; Shannon, EINN; Dublin, EIDW; Belfast Aldergrove,
EGAA;
Tafs & Metars for Ireland.
EINN Tafs & Metars.
Decode list for METARS & TAFS.
Current TAFs
decoded.
Metars,
full decode list.
Geoff Butler's
Pilot Weather Course.
Tides.
Tide Prediction, (UK Hydrographic Office).
2010 tide tables
for Limerick, Tarbert & Foynes. (in PDF format)
2010
tide tables for Cobh.
2010
tide tables for Galway.
2010
tide tables for Dublin.
2010
tide tables for Londonderry.
2010
tide tables for Belfast.
WXTide32.
Marinas & Moorings.
Irish
marina web sites.
Aerial views of Irish marinas.
Kilrush
Marina.
Cahersiveen Marina.
Arklow Marina.
Wikipedia list of marinas.
Official notices.
Commissioners of Irish Lights, Notices to Mariners re Lights and
Buoys.
Admiralty
Notices to Mariners.
Marine Notice No 9 of 2004 re Sea Area Forecasts.
Marine Notices from Dept. of Transport.
Sailing Directions amendments.
Reed's Almanacs'
amendments.
Inland Waterways Marine Notices.
Mars.
(ITU site.)
Official sites.
Department of Marine, division of Dept. of Transport.
Waterways
Ireland.
Irish Sailing
Association.
Inland
Waterways Association of Ireland.
Irish Cruising
Club.
The Cruising
Association of Ireland.
U.I.M. Monaco.
Shannon Foynes Port Company.
List of national Met
services worldwide. (courtesy of DNMI.)
Irish Water Safety Council.
Marine Casualty Investigation
Board.
Heritage Boat association.
Irish Marine
Federation.
Irish
Underwater Council.
Cospas-Sarsat.
Royal Institute of Navigation.
Informatory sites.
Seascapes news programme.
Photographic album of all Irish
lighthouses.
West Coast
lighthouses.
Irish navigation marks photo album.
Lighthouse data base.
"Inland
Waterways Dictionary."
Dept. of Marine
list of links.
Adrian Power's sailing links.
Irish ships.(Aiden
McCabe.)
A guide to Irish islands. (Irish Sea Kayaking Assoc.)
Col
Regs. (Nautical Know How Inc.)
Col.Regs.
MCA.
IALA Buoyage. (Sailtrain.)
Technical Info. (Reading
College.)
Douglas Scale.
Beaufort
Scale.
Noonsite, Ireland.
Mars
reports.
GMT, UT & the RGO.
Perigees
& Apogees.
Grib
files.
World-wide magnetic variations.
Online charts.
Sight reduction tables.
Moon
phase now.
Sun or
Moon rise/set tables.
Earth &
Moon Viewer.
Navigation lights.
Clare Islands.
Shannon
Estuary.
Haby's meteorological hints.
Yachting and Boating World.
Navis.
Galvanic table.
World
sailing directions.
List of
Irish representative associations.
Convert
measurements.
VHF channels.
Dictionary
of boat names.
Training sites.
Sailtrain.
Boat
operators course.
Online VHF GMDSS course.
Sea Lights,
Capital Sailing.
RNLI training console.
Keith
Bater.
Three simple rules.
Boating test
questions.
David Pascoe Topics.
Navigation
course.
Sail Tale Quizzes.
Peter Blundell's
Lights, Sound and Fog signals.
Col. Reg.
tests.
Electrical Training.
Boat logs.
Willi & Tina conquer Lough Derg.
Tina & Willi
Klug's month-long trip on the inland waterways, April 2008.
Lough Derg to
Dingle.
Tina & Willi Klug's inland waterways trip, April
2006.
Tina & Willi's Inland Waterways trip, September
2006.
Nick & Kathy Bowles' circumnavigation of Ireland.
Grahame Stronge's Strangford to The Channel Islands
cruise.
Follow the boat.
Circumnavigating the North Pole westabout.
Paddling the
Shannon.
Henk de Velde.
Cruising
logs.
Knots.
Animated knots.
More
animated knots.
Well
illustrated animated knots.
Grog's animated knots.
I will knot!
Mark Rosenstein's
knots.
Warp to chain splice.
Flags.
Flags and their meanings.
Flags of the
world.
Flag meanings.
Maritime
flags.
World flags
database.
International Code of Signals.
Forums.
Powerboat Ireland forum.
YBW
Forums.
Cruisers' Forum.
Yanmar
forum.
Net
Weather Forum weather guides. (Very useful.)
Updated news feed.
