While cruising, we relied extensively upon high frequency weather facsimiles (HFFAX), even when we were not offshore, because it is the only place where we could have access to relatively long range forecasts, more than 24 hours, in particular during a crosing. We received these HFFAXs with our Ham radio set and our laptop computer. There is now some information about curently valid HFFAXs available on the internet, in particular from US sources. We will try to keep up with this information and make it available to cruisers on our web page.

There is already a web site that covers a lof of HFFAX material, organized somewhat differently from here.

NMF Boston, Massachusetts. North Atlantic
NMG New Orleans, Louisiana. Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean & Tropics
NMC Pt. Reyes, California. Eastern North Pacific
KVM70 Honolulu, Hawaii. Pacific Ocean
NOJ Kodiak, Alaska. North East Pacific

The US Navy did transmit HF weatherfaxes that we often used, in particular in the Med, but they stopped doing so in January 1999, using instead satelite transmissions. Some of their weather faxes are available on the internet and we will provide links to a few of them that we have found useful. The US Navy, the Fleet Numerical Metrology and Oceanography Center (FNMOC), now makes available on the internet the output of their NOGAPS (Navy Operational Global Atmospheric Prediction System). It is a lot of data in a very convenient format, but the charts are a little coarse to our liking for cruising purposes close to shore. You may nevertheless still be interested in these charts.. Check other US NAVY charts at the bottom of this page.

Other world wide station schedules can be obtained from NOA in PDF format.

North Atlantic NMF Boston, Massachusetts,
Gulf of Mexico, Caribean & Tropics NMG New Orleans, Louisiana,
Eastern Pacific NMC Pt. Reyes, California.

Pressure - Wind
NWS: Analysis,115W-175W	00Z [TIF|GIF| B/W GIF]	06Z TIF|GIF| B/W GIF]	12Z [TIF|GIF| B/W GIF]	18Z [TIF|GIF| B/W GIF]
NWS: Analysis,175W-135E	00Z [TIF|GIF| B/W GIF]	06Z [TIF|GIF| B/W GIF]	12Z [TIF|GIF| B/W GIF]	18Z [TIF|GIF| B/W GIF]
NWS: Forecasts,115W-135E	24H00Z [TIF|GIF| B/W GIF]	24H12Z [TIF|GIF| B/W GIF]	48H00Z [TIF|GIF| B/W GIF]	48H12Z [TIF|GIF| B/W GIF]
NWS: Forecasts,115W-135E	96H12Z[TIF|GIF|B/W GIF]