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Pacific Weather Sources - On the Internet These are mainly for French Polynesia, westward to NZ, and northward to Hawaii. These are all the goverment office forecast products that I have found to be useful. (and a few non-govt sites) Global Weather Outlook from US NCEP This is a two week outlook on major weather factors influencing the world. It can help with longer range planning, and understanding what's making your wx happen. http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/precip/CWlink/ghazards/index.php New Zealand Met Current surface analysis: Surface Forecast Series (30, 48, 72H) These are great maps in small (PNG) format--about 16K per map. But not easily downloadable via email (appears to be no fixed product name for the graphics, unlike other offices' websites). Australia Met And here's for Australia. There may be a more user-friendly page, but I found this that seems to list all the products: http://www.bom.gov.au/inside/itb/dm/idcodes/tables/current/difacs_products.shtml http://www.weatherzone.com.au/ NOAA Charts in Color from Hawaii Current Streamline and Streamline Loop: 00, 24, 48, 72 Hr SFC Prog for Entire Pacific Full List of Hawaii Marine Weather Products: Satellite Pictures The best starting place for South Pacific Infrared Loops is here: http://www.goes.noaa.gov/sohemi/ When I had decent internet during cyclone season in the SW Pacific, here is what I watched. It covers from Australia to 170 W and from the Equator down to NZ. http://www.goes.noaa.gov/sohemi/sohemiloops/shirgmscol.html Here is the lowest bandwidth sat picture I have been able to find. It is likely available on a marine weather site somewhere, but this works well with crappy internet: http://aviationweather.gov/data/obs/sat/intl/ir_ICAO-F_bw.jpg This picture is updated about every 15 minutes, and if you download and save successive files, you can get a fairly nice moving satellite picture. A color version is here: http://aviationweather.gov/data/obs/sat/intl/ir_ICAO-F.jpg If you're looking for a really tiny (70Kb) satellite picture highlighting the ITCZ, here it is: http://www.prh.noaa.gov/hnl/satellite/cp_0000_ir.gif (there is a version every 6 hours at 0000, 0600, 1200, 1800, vary the name accordingly). This may not be offered during non-NPac-Hurricane season, but for sure is there May-Nov Or this is the 'current' version (I don't know how often it is updated) http://www.prh.noaa.gov/hnl/satellite/latest/CPAC_4km_IR.gif FIJI Met Office Fiji Met Office Maps and Satellite page They have some very good products, but some of them only start coverage west of 155 degrees West. French Polynesia Met Office Text forecast 36 Hour Forecast Map Satellite photo - French Poly - Updated every half hour Satellite photo - South Pacific - Updated every 3 hours Tonga Weather Page Bob McDavitt's Weekly Weathergram http://weathergram.blogspot.com An ECMWF Model View of the Weather The ECMWF is a different model than the GFS, managed and published in Europe. Some say it is more accurate in the SW Pacific GRIB GFS. Unfortunately, I don't know of a way to get it via Sailmail, and the detailed forecasts just aren't there. However, if the GFS forecast looks unbelievable, and you have access to internet, this is a good place to cross check with a different model. American Samoa's Site: http://www.prh.noaa.gov/samoa/ Met VUW Note this is mostly 'repackaged GRIB' files http://metvuw.com/forecast/forecast.php?type=rain®ion=spacific Passage Weather Note this is mostly 'repackaged GRIB' files Cyclone/Hurricane Information for the Pacific http://weather.unisys.com/hurricane/ In the SW Pacific, Fiji is supposed to be responsible for forecasting Tropical Weather. However, IMHO, they are pretty miserable at doing so. The US Navy's Joint Typhoon Warning Center, is NOT responsible to SW Pac cyclones, but they do post info when something is happening, here: http://www.usno.navy.mil/JTWC/ Fiji's Cyclone Site: Samoa's Site: http://www.prh.noaa.gov/samoa/tropical_cyclones.php
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