Weather, The Importance Of The Big Picture

by John September 6, 2011
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[Written Saturday, 27 August] The image above is a screen shot from Jim Corenman’s excellent View Fax application (available for free from Sailmail) showing a GRIB for the winds for the Labrador Coast for Tuesday, three days hence. As you can see the model is forecasting strong to gale force northeasterly winds, but no big [...]

Lessons From Maria

by John September 29, 2011
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[Written 17 September] As I write the wind from the remnants of Hurricane Maria, or to be more accurate at our location, post-Tropical Storm Maria, is howling in the rigging as Morgan’s Cloud surges and tugs at the shore-fast and anchor holding her secure in a cove in north Newfoundland. The winds are down to [...]

Weather, How To Look Ahead—Way Ahead

by John October 6, 2011
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In the last few weeks I have posted on weather twice: The importance of looking at the big picture. Recognizing the possibility of dangerous weather well ahead of time. In this post I’m going to talk about one of the weather tools that I mentioned in those two posts.

Duelling GRIB Viewers

by John October 15, 2011
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I have written several posts lately on weather and each has mentioned GRIBs. In this post I’m going to get into the nuts and bolts of the software we use to view GRIB data.

Our Weather System, Part 1—Weather Fax

by John October 27, 2011
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In my last few posts on weather I have been writing about various aspects of weather analysis. In the next three posts I’m going to pull it all together by detailing the daily procedure that we found worked well during our Arctic cruise this summer. In part one I’m going to cover weather fax, part [...]

Our Weather System, Part 2—GRIBs

by John November 17, 2011
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This is the second in a series of three posts on the system that we developed during our Arctic cruise this summer to do our daily weather analysis. In the first post I wrote about the way we use weather fax. In this one I’m going to get into the details of how we request [...]

Our Weather System, Part 3—Forecasts

by John January 16, 2012
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In this, the final installment of my series on our weather information gathering system, I’m going to write about how we receive voice (well, really not) and text forecasts while at sea and in remote places.

The Best Weather Forecast You Never Heard Of

by John January 19, 2012
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In the last post I explained how to receive text forecasts while offshore. Now I want to share one of my favourite forecasts, that I suspect very few people bother to get: