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Blundering around on the Internet, as one does when the opportunity arises, we
discovered a major weather site: http://www.intellicast.com/Sail
which may be the definitive global weather website for sailors.
It has been online since
April 1995 and is one of the top sites in existence, of any kind, apparently.
It costs nothing to get information from the site, which is supported by
advertising. With more than 250,000 pages, it is a massive website.
Has anyone out there tried using their Sailing Planner? Never heard of it? Nor
had we!
This is what they say:
"Sailing Planner is an interactive planning tool to help sailors, windsurfers, and boaters plan outdoor activities. Sailing Planner will include local radar, detailed local wind maps, water temperatures, tides, and buoy reports. It will include forecasts for ports of call and coastal marine areas, with a ticker of current wind and water
conditions."
Intellicast.com is provided by Weather Services International (WSI Corporation), a subsidiary of
TASC, Inc., and a Litton Industries company (NYSE: LIT). WSI is one of the world’s largest suppliers of real-time weather data, imagery and weather forecast services to customers in the broadcast media, aviation, utilities, government and
agrigculture markets.
If you have experience with using the site, we'd be very interested to hear
about it. If there is a particular weather site on the Internet which you like
to use, you may like to tell us about it. We'll list sites on this page
and, if you care to give a description of the site and how best to use it, we'll
put that in too, for the benefit of readers who rely on Internet café access
and need to be able to go straight to information.
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To subscribe to a free weather text system, you can send an e-mail to: necol@sintmaarten.net
Subject: Weather Subscribe. To unsubscribe, send another e-mail to the
same address, Subject: Weather Leave. There is no need to put anything in
the text part of the e-mail.
An e-mail, requesting a weather update, to weather@caribwx.com
will, we are told, elicit a reply. This is, however, second-hand hearsay...can
anyone tell us what the service is like? (Yes, we know we could just try it ourselves but
we're working offline as we prepare this page and we're a bit pressed for
time...) we have also heard that this is now the first and only walk-in Weather
Centre in the Caribbean...any information available?
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