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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.

HF FAX Scedules available on the Internet:

US NWS Transmission Schedules:

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.

Most of the HFFAXs transmited by the US NWS are available in TIFF and in GIF format on the internet.

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

You may obtain these HFFAXs, and some others, from the tables below:

If you run into problems, bad links or if you have suggestions to improve
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* The NWS Facsimiles are in TIFF format you need to have a TIFF viewer.

NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN

North Atlantic Ocean
Sea State
Surface Pressure & Wind
  NWS: Analysis 40W - 95W 
00Z
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12Z
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  NWS: Analysis 10E - 45W 
N/A
N/A
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  NWS: 24H Forecast 45W - 95W 
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12Z
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  NWS: 48H Forecast 10E - 95W 
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12Z
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  NWS: 96H Forecast 10E - 95W 
12Z
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12Z
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EASTERN NORTH ATLANTIC and WESTERN MED.
From Braknell, UK. Surface Pressure 35N-80N ; 60W-35E

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24H[TIF|GIF]
36H[TIF|GIF]
48H[TIF|GIF]
60H[TIF|GIF]
72H[TIF|GIF]
96H[TIF|GIF]
120H[TIF|GIF]

CONTINENTAL US

Analysis
Surface Pressure & Wind
  NWS: Continental U.S. 
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06Z[TIF]
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18Z[TIF]

ATLANTIC TROPICS

Analysis
Surface Pressure & Wind
  NWS: Tropics 05S - 35N, 0 - 120W 
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06Z[TIF|GIF ]
12Z[TIF|GIF ]
18Z[TIF|GIF]

GULF OF MEXICO AND CARIBBEAN SEA

Gulf of Mexico - Caribbean Sea
Wind - Sea Height
  NWS: 24HR Forecast 
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06Z[TIF|GIF]
12Z[TIF|GIF]
18Z[TIF|GIF]
  NWS: 48HR Forecast 
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12Z[TIF|GIF]

NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN

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

You may also obtain many charts for all the worlds oceans from the US NAVY Public web site.


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