PNW Weather
Does anyone know of a source for receiving text email marine weather for the
PNW? I would like to receive it on my cell phone (Verizon).
Environment Canada has a text email service which gives a broad overview in
the form of a Synopsis for a large area of Canada and a Forecast for the
smaller local area. It does not include any wave heights or forecasts of
wave heights.
US forecasts are WEB based. I have not been able to find text email for US
forecasts.
WEB based is great, but one has to be at a marina with WiFi service - no
good at anchorages.
How do other PNW boaters obtain weather forecasts - both US and Canada?
Don Sorensen
M/V Esperanza
60 DeFever
Seattle/Dallas
if your phone, like most, has a built in browser you can access a lot of
stuff off the weather channel mobile website... the marine forecast is under
36 hr forecast > lifestyle. you can also get radar and sat images.
not familiar with Verizon service, but cingular has great coverage
nationwide...i used it when driving to Seattle a couple of month ago, great
to check weather ahead and worked in most places except the most rural
areas.
pascal
miami,fl
----- Original Message -----
From: "D Sorensen" dsoren@sbcglobal.net
To: trawlers-and-trawlering@lists.samurai.com
Sent: Monday, June 19, 2006 3:49 PM
Subject: T&T: PNW Weather
Does anyone know of a source for receiving text email marine weather for
the
PNW? I would like to receive it on my cell phone (Verizon).
Environment Canada has a text email service which gives a broad overview
in
the form of a Synopsis for a large area of Canada and a Forecast for the
smaller local area. It does not include any wave heights or forecasts of
wave heights.
US forecasts are WEB based. I have not been able to find text email for US
forecasts.
WEB based is great, but one has to be at a marina with WiFi service - no
good at anchorages.
How do other PNW boaters obtain weather forecasts - both US and Canada?
Don Sorensen
M/V Esperanza
60 DeFever
Seattle/Dallas
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I've had good experience using mobile.wunderground.com. You can
bookmark the marine forecast for multiple locations and it is
designed specifically for mobile phones. The "land" forecast includes
current radar, if your device is capable of accepting graphics. For
10 bucks a year you can get an alerts service(which I have not
tried), among other things.
http://www.wunderground.com/ (main site)
http://mobile.wunderground.com/ (Mobile site)
George
On Jun 19, 2006, at 2:49 PM, D Sorensen wrote:
Does anyone know of a source for receiving text email marine
weather for the
PNW? I would like to receive it on my cell phone (Verizon).
Environment Canada has a text email service which gives a broad
overview in
the form of a Synopsis for a large area of Canada and a Forecast
for the
smaller local area. It does not include any wave heights or
forecasts of
wave heights.
US forecasts are WEB based. I have not been able to find text email
for US
forecasts.
WEB based is great, but one has to be at a marina with WiFi service
- no
good at anchorages.
How do other PNW boaters obtain weather forecasts - both US and
Canada?
Don Sorensen
M/V Esperanza
60 DeFever
Seattle/Dallas
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D Sorensen wrote:
Does anyone know of a source for receiving text email marine weather for the
PNW? I would like to receive it on my cell phone (Verizon).
Environment Canada has a text email service which gives a broad overview in
the form of a Synopsis for a large area of Canada and a Forecast for the
smaller local area. It does not include any wave heights or forecasts of
wave heights.
US forecasts are WEB based. I have not been able to find text email for US
forecasts.
WEB based is great, but one has to be at a marina with WiFi service - no
good at anchorages.
How do other PNW boaters obtain weather forecasts - both US and Canada?
Don Sorensen
M/V Esperanza
60 DeFever
Seattle/Dallas
Access to the web via Verizon is spotty along the west coast, especially
offshore, this includes email. Globastar, maybe Iridium for text based
reports. There are very expensive web access systems, in the $25K range,
which are beyond the scope of anything I could recommend. WiFi coverage
is improving in many coastal harbor ports.
The NWS VHF radio channels are your best bet.
Mike
Capt. Mike Maurice
Beaverton Oregon(Near Portland)
Send the following email to ftpmail@weather.noaa.gov with anything you like
in the subject line:
open
cd data
cd raw
cd fz
get fzus56.ksew.cwf.sew.txt
quit
You will get a reply with the PNW text forecast.
see http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/fax/ftpmail.txt for instructions on getting
weather info by email.
Thats a good tip.. But you don't need to do all the cd's.. This works just as well..
open
get /data/raw/fx/fzus56.ksew.cwf.sew.txt
quit
On Tuesday, June 20, 2006, at 01:25PM, Hal Wyman hal@halwyman.com wrote:
Send the following email to ftpmail@weather.noaa.gov with anything you like
in the subject line:
open
cd data
cd raw
cd fz
get fzus56.ksew.cwf.sew.txt
quit
You will get a reply with the PNW text forecast.
see http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/fax/ftpmail.txt for instructions on getting
weather info by email.
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