January 11, 2007 13:39
The German weather site www.wetterzentrale.de shows weather maps from around the world provided by many weather systems (US army, airforce, UK, NL, JP, DE, FR etc. weather systems...)
I often use the Topkarten link with GFS (Global Forecast System) maps.
They show every infos you need (500, 750, 850 hPa; wind force and speed, temperature at 2m height, waves height etc) from 0 hours up to 384 hours forecast with an interval of 6 hours.
There are about 16 different info maps available from GFS, plus some panels which show several maps at once.
Link: http://www.wetterzentrale.de/topkarten/fsavneur.html
There's even an animated screen which shows you 4 selected maps out of the 16 from 0 to 180+ hours.
http://www.wetterzentrale.de/topkarten/ani/gfs/
Unfortunately the anims need a fast internet connection, because loading these data via mobile phone is too expensive.
Though the site is in German I think one could easily understand the abbreviations and all maps are in color!
To use these maps when I'm sailing, I just do save some maps at home on my computer and do hotlink the URL addresses.
This way I only need do download the appropriate map and don't need to load the complete homepage.
Look at these examples and you know what I mean.
this shows the 500hPa map With Rtavn being the name of the map (Europe) and 06 = 6 hours, 1= first map from the panel
http://www.wetterzentrale.de/pics/Rtavn061.html
This shows 850 hPa and Temp. for the same region and time
http://www.wetterzentrale.de/pics/Rtavn062.html
This shows the rain in mm for the same region and time
http://www.wetterzentrale.de/pics/Rtavn064.html
This shows the temp (°C) in 2m height for the same region and time
http://www.wetterzentrale.de/pics/Rtavn065.html
This shows the wind direction and strength for the middle EU but the same time
http://www.wetterzentrale.de/pics/Rtavn069.html
Regards,
Manou
I often use the Topkarten link with GFS (Global Forecast System) maps.
They show every infos you need (500, 750, 850 hPa; wind force and speed, temperature at 2m height, waves height etc) from 0 hours up to 384 hours forecast with an interval of 6 hours.
There are about 16 different info maps available from GFS, plus some panels which show several maps at once.
Link: http://www.wetterzentrale.de/topkarten/fsavneur.html
There's even an animated screen which shows you 4 selected maps out of the 16 from 0 to 180+ hours.
http://www.wetterzentrale.de/topkarten/ani/gfs/
Unfortunately the anims need a fast internet connection, because loading these data via mobile phone is too expensive.
Though the site is in German I think one could easily understand the abbreviations and all maps are in color!
To use these maps when I'm sailing, I just do save some maps at home on my computer and do hotlink the URL addresses.
This way I only need do download the appropriate map and don't need to load the complete homepage.
Look at these examples and you know what I mean.
this shows the 500hPa map With Rtavn being the name of the map (Europe) and 06 = 6 hours, 1= first map from the panel
http://www.wetterzentrale.de/pics/Rtavn061.html
This shows 850 hPa and Temp. for the same region and time
http://www.wetterzentrale.de/pics/Rtavn062.html
This shows the rain in mm for the same region and time
http://www.wetterzentrale.de/pics/Rtavn064.html
This shows the temp (°C) in 2m height for the same region and time
http://www.wetterzentrale.de/pics/Rtavn065.html
This shows the wind direction and strength for the middle EU but the same time
http://www.wetterzentrale.de/pics/Rtavn069.html
Regards,
Manou