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National Weather Service Marine Forecasts
www.weather.gov/marine
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Marine Forecast Offices & Centers provide links
to their products as well as additional regionally focused
information. Click on map for links.
Beware of hypothermia during these cooler months. Did you know your body can cool 25 times faster in water than in air? That water does not need to be very cold to endanger you?
Did you know that the height of some individual waves may be twice the height of the forecast seas?
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Items of Interest to Mariners
- Got a text-ready cellphone or PDA?....use cell.weather.gov
- Got a smarter cellphone or PDA?....use mobile.weather.gov
- Read about NWS involvement in "The
Perfect Storm".
- Would you know how to save yourself from a rip current? Break the grip of the rip!
- Recent and Upcoming Changes to Marine Forecasts and Services
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Marine Weather in the News,
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- USCG Discontinues *CG for Wireless Emergency Calls Except In AK
- Use of 121.5/243 MHz EPIRBs discontinued January 1, 2007
- Have you registered your 406 MHz EPIRB?
- USCG to continue HF weather broadcasts via radiofax, voice, and SITOR
- Navigators...CHU Canada is shifting frequencies Jan 01, 2009
- JetStream - Online School for Weather - Ocean Chapter, Marine Forecast-at-a-Glance
- For copies of old forecasts, please see
our FAQ
- We appreciate feedback
Marine Text Forecasts and Products
Graphic Marine Forecasts and Products
Observations
Dissemination Information
- INTERNET
Read me!
Marine weather products via the Internet
- NOAA
WEATHER RADIO
Voice broadcasts of coastal marine
forecasts on a continuous cycle
- USCG
HF RADIOFAX
Broadcast of high seas weather maps
- WWV, WWVH
HF VOICE (TIME TICK)
Voice broadcast of high seas
warnings
- USCG
HF SITOR (NBDP)
Broadcast of high seas and offshore
forecasts in text form.
- USCG
HF VOICE:
Broadcast of high seas forecasts and storm warnings
via single sideband (SSB) radio
- USCG
MF VOICE:
Broadcast of offshore forecasts and storm warnings
via single sideband (SSB) radio
- USCG
VHF VOICE:
Broadcast of coastal forecasts and storm warnings
- USCG
AIS BROADCAST:
Broadcast of Observations via the Automatic Identification System (AIS)
- COMMERCIAL
MARITIME COAST STATIONS and WEATHER NETS
Weather broadcasts from commercial
coast stations and weather nets
- COMMERCIAL
SERVICES PROVIDING MARINE FORECASTS VIA SATELLITE
Weather broadcasts from commercial
satellite services
- AMATEUR "HAM"
RADIO
Marine forecasts made available
by radio amateurs for the small boat and yachting
communities.
- ALASKA
MARINE VHF VOICE
NOAA broadcast of offshore forecasts,
coastal forecasts, and storm warnings for the state
of Alaska
- ALASKA
MARINE HF VOICE - 4125 kHz
NOAA broadcast of offshore forecasts,
coastal forecasts, and storm warnings for the state
of Alaska
- COASTAL WARNING
DISPLAY PROGRAM
Visual signals to alert mariners
of storms at sea
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GMDSS
Provides emergency and safety communications
and disseminates Maritime Safety Information
- NAVTEX
USCG broadcast of offshore forecasts
and storm warnings in text form
- INMARSAT-C
SafetyNET
Broadcast of high seas forecasts
and warnings via satellite
- SPACE WEATHER
Sunspots and other phenomena affecting radio and satellite reception
- DMAWDS
Graphical display of NWS model
data for the Great Lakes
- GREAT
LAKES FAX-BACK SERVICE
Great Lakes forecasts and analyses
in graphic and text form
- PORTS
Real-time information that supports
safe and cost-efficient navigation
- EMWIN
Suite of methods of making available
a live data stream of basic weather data
- NOAA
WEATHER WIRE SERVICE
Primary telecommunications network
for NWS forecasts, warnings, and other products
to the mass media, emergency management agencies,
and private weather services
- FAMILY OF
SERVICES
Composed of multiple data streams
of meteorological and hydrological messages, it
serves mass media, emergency management agencies,
and private weather services
- NOAAPORT
Satellite broadcast of NWS forecasts,
warnings, and other products to the mass media,
emergency management agencies, and private weather
services
- NEXRAD
Radar Product Central Collection/Distribution Service
(RPCCDS)
Real-time weather radar images
- NOAA
WEATHER SATELLITES
NOAA geostationary and polar-orbiting
satellites
- MASS MEDIA
Commercial radio, TV, and other
media
- PRIVATE
WEATHER SERVICES PROVIDERS
Value-added and unique weather
products from private weather services
- NOAA
TELEPHONE RECORDINGS
Recorded marine forecasts , Dial-A-Buoy
and PORTS.
- PUBLICATIONS
Marine Weather Services maps and
other publications
- PHONE
NUMBERS and ADDRESSES
Contacts for questions or comments
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