Weather Links

The links on this site represent an increasingly small percentage of some of the best weather sites, though there may well be a superb site out there which we have not yet found. Please let us know if you find something better.

Online Weather Full range of forecasts for land, sea & air. Particularly valuable for 3 day forecast at 6 hourly intervals for Holyhead
North Wales Weather

Simple land forecast

Georg Muller's Topkarten Comprehensive compilation of most of the world's met. infomation, including Metfax, ECMWF and military sources.
Theyr Net They now charge for all services
Inshore Waters (UK Met.)

The forecast broadcast by BBC and promulgated by coastguard stations. Also to be found, with sound, on the BBC web sites.

Shipping Forecast (UK Met.) What else!
Met Eireann

The Irish equivalent of the Met Office forecast - and frequently closer to reality.

Dun Laoghaire The harbour's own weather service
Frank Singleton

Ex-Met. Office forecaster, BBC broadcaster and RYA Yachtmaster - this is a personal collection of weather web sites and references which he believes will be of value to the sailor.

NOAA Offshore buoys Observations from Oceanographic buoys around the British Isles.
European Weather Centre

Surface Pressure charts (in colour). Very similar to UK Met. faxes most of the time. Many other predictive guidance pages.

US Military Network

Vast quantities of US data, supplied under the freedom of information rules to world wide users.

Proudman Oceanographic Short term Irish Sea wind, wave and weather forecasts using Proudman models run by the Met Office.
Proudman Institute Wave height predictions for the Irish Sea for the next 36 hours.

XCWeather

Designed for aircraft, this site gets 5 stars for its presentation and speed. Go here FIRST!