Weather Along the Way

Once we finally can get going (probably Thursday late morning), we won't have internet.  So we'll be calling Mindy to give us forecasts and observations from the wind and sea state at NOAA buoys along the way.  (We'll also have SSB and VHF radios for voice and FAX and NAVTEX forecasts.) 


Here are the buoys.  This is real stuff, so this content might be inappropriate for queasy stomachs.  For example, right now SE of Bermuda, the wind is NE27 gusting 33 (not bad), with 16 foot seas with a period of only 7.6 seconds (barf city).  It was worse last night.

Virginia Beach:

http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=44014

SE of Bermuda:

http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=41048

NE Bahamas:

http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=41047

Atlantic South, way out to the S of Bermuda.

http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=41049

E Bahamas:

http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=41046

SW Atlantic, just N of the Virgin Islands

http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=41043

Here are the forecasts we'll be looking at:

Passage Weather:

http://www.passageweather.com/index.htm?http%3A//www.passageweather.com/maps/bermuda/mappage.htm

http://www.passageweather.com/maps/westindies/wind/000.png

NWS Text forecasts:

Graphical Zone forecast: http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/marine/zone/wrdoffmz.htm

http://forecast.weather.gov/shmrn.php?mz=anz086&syn=anz089

http://forecast.weather.gov/shmrn.php?mz=amz080&syn=amz088

Bermuda Harbor Radio:

http://www.weather.bm/forecastmarineextended.asp

http://www.weather.bm/charts.asp

National Hurricane Center:

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/index.shtml

Graphical forecast for Hatteras:

http://graphical.weather.gov/sectors/mhxMarineWeek.php?page=2&element=WindSpdMarine

Enjoy.