Marine Forecast Texts for METAREA I
UK, Northwest European and Baltic Waters and High Seas

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• INMARSAT Forecasts - Worldwide
• METAREA II, French, Spanish Portuguese coasts and High Seas
• METAREA III - Mediterranean and Black Sea
• METAREA IV - XVI - outside Europe
• Sea area charts

Links to forecasts

UK High Seas, Sea Areas and Inshore waters

UK Met Office Home page

• High Seas forecast on INMARSAT for METAREA I --- Issued viaat 0930/2130 UTC
• UK Met Office Waters Shipping Forecast --- Issued at 0505/1130/1725/2330 Local Clock Time
• Extended Outlooks for UK Shipping forecast areas ---Separate forecasts issued around midnight for each UK NAVTEX station.
• UK Inshore Waters Forecast --- Issued by the Met Office at about 0000/0600/1200/1800/ UTC
• Latest Storm Warning --- Issued by UK Met Office for METAREA I
• Latest Gale Warnings --- Issued by the UK Met Office for UK Sea Areas

Alternative, for faster links from the IMO/WMO JCOMM site[

• Cullercoats NAVTEX 518 kHz warnings and Forecasts
  
• Niton NAVTEX 518 kHz warnings and Forecasts
  
• Portpatrick NAVTEX 518 kHz warnings and Forecasts
• Actual reports around UK coasts --- Updated hourly.

Alternatively, on the BBC sites

• Shipping forecast
  
• High Seas forecast
  
• Inshore waters This is a list from which individual areas are selected.
  
• Extended Range Forecasts
  

Particularly useful, direct from the Met Office meso-scale model, although limited in locations, the next link should be the best meso-scale forecasts achievable. Good as a check on commercial meso-scale forecasts.

• Coastal forecasts
  

Irish Coastal waters

Met Éirean Home page

• Coastal waters forecasts around Ireland and Gale Warnings ---
• Irish buoy reports
• Irish land station reports

The Netherlands

• KNMI,Home page
• Dutch Sea Areas
• Dutch coastal waters ---
• NAVTEX bulletins via Ijmuiden[P]

Jersey Met Office

French Sea and Coastal areas forecasts

Météo-France Marine Home page

Sea Areas

• Casquets to Hebrides Sea area forecasts in French .
• Humber to Casquets Sea area forecasts in French

Inshore Waters Forecasts

• Belgian frontier to baie de la Somme
• baie de la Somme to Cap de la Hague
• la Hague to Penmarch

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Germany

German Met Service, DWD Home page

Index for all DWD marine forecasts
Look for "Seewetter Nord-,Ostsee" and click on "mehr" for an index. I cannot save these links. For those whose German is less than perfect, these are -

• Küstenwetterbericht - Coastal Weather 24 hours forecast
  
• Windvorhersagen - Wind forecast 36 hours plus outlook
  
• Seewetterbericht - Shipping Forecast 24 hour + 24 hour outlook, English Channel, Nordsee and ostsee
  
• Seewetter 3 Tage - Three day forecast at grid points, Sea areas Thames northwards and S Baltic
  
• Stationsmeldungen - Latest Actuals
  
• aktuelle Windmeldungen - More actuals
  
• Mittelfristseewetter - Five day outlooks
  
• Vorhersagekarten Ostsee - Forecast maps Baltic, 24. 48, 72 hours
  
• Vorhersagekarten Nordsee - Forecast maps North Sea, 24. 48, 72 hours
  

All in German.

Easier might be to try the Kortweer page. This is a "umbo" page of marine forecasts and actuals.

Sweden

SMHI, Swedish Met Servic Home pagee

• Baltic Sea Area Forecasts --- In English. ssued by the Swedish Met service - SMHI
• Coastal Forecasts Index page --- Not very friendly unless on broadband. In Swedish

Denmark

Danish Meteorological Institute Home page

• http://www.dmi.dk/eng/index/forecasts/forecast_for_sea_areas.htm 24-hour forecasts for Danish Sea Areas --- Southern Baltic and North Sea - Text only version in English

Finland

 Finnish Met Service Home page

• Forecast Gulf of Finland, Northern Baltic, Sea of Aaland and Archipelago, Gulf of Bothnia --- In English.

Baltic States and Poland

• Estonia ---Vector wind charts, no texts
• Latvia --- pictorial, no texts
• Lithuania - Short period marine forecast in text
• Poland --- Graphical, impressive but not very useful output from UK Global model and USN COAMPS

For more Baltic links go to my page Baltic Forecast Sources

Norway, Faeroes and Iceland

The Norwegian Met Service Home page

• North of UK and Norwegian Seas
• Norwegian Inshore waters
• Faeroes Sea Areas

Icelandic Met Service Home page

• Icelandic Shipping Forecast --- In English at 04:30, 10:03, 16:30 and 22:10 UTC)
• Icelandic Inshore Waters Forecast --- In Icelandic, at 01:00, 04:30, 06:45, 10:03, 12:45, 16:30, 19:30 and 22:10 UTC. At the times underlined there is also a High Seas forecast. At 1003 there is a 3 day outlook.

English Channel, Irish sea to Gibraltar and Canary Isles

For 3-day forecasts at grid points from the English Channel, Irish Sea, Sole, Biscay to Gibraltar and Canary Isles. Go to the DWD Index page.
Look for "forecast mediterranean sea". Click on "mehr".. Then click on "Streckenwetter".

See also pages on -

• Forecasts around Western Europe
• Mediterranean and Adriatic Weather services
• Baltic weather services
• Trans-Atlantic weather forecasts
• Weather in the Baltic
• Forecasts around Iceland

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