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Current & immediate weather.

Sea Area forecasts, (Met Eireann).

Isobar, Rainfall, Cloud & Temperature charts, (Met Eireann).

Coastal reports & Sea Crossings forecasts. (Met Eireann).

Current rainfall pattern on radar.

Current rainfall on radar.

Fast updating rainfall radar image.

3 hour forecasts (1 hPa isobars, rainfall & isotachs.) (Met Eireann).

Shipping Forecast (UK Met Office, Exeter).

Offshore buoys data. M1, M2, M3, M4, M5 & Marathon Gas Field. (Marine Institute).

Current weather & wave heights from shipping.

Current conditions in Kilrush.

Current satellite image.

Current visible satellite image.

German Aerospace Centre most recent satellite image.

SkyLink Weather Satellite image.

Animated satellite pictures.

Large Satellite picture.

Shannon current weather.

Surf reports.

West Coast wave patterns.

Meteosat 7. for current pressure, visibility and wind speed.

Dun Laoghaire Harbour current weather conditions.

Theyr.net (Bjorn Erlingsson).

Ascat chart.

Quikscat from KNMI.

SFC wind speed chart.

Current fronts, cloud cover and pressure. (Windfinder.Kiel.)

“Breaking News” weather.

MeteoConsult.

“2 Day Plus” weather forecasts.

OGIMET charts.(Guillermo Ballester Valor).(Recommended.)

Magic Seaweed MSLP & Precipitation charts. 

16 day forward, NCEP based, MSLP charts.

Magic Seaweed swell charts.

Magic Seaweed wind charts.

Passage Weather 7 day surface pressure and wave height charts.

7 day synoptic charts. James McGregor.(Recommended.)

North Atlantic weather systems. James McGregor.

SkyLink Weather 3 day charts.

Météociel’s synoptic, precipitation etc., charts.

12 day Wind/Weather forecast from French Met Service. 

Stormsurf’s surface winds animation from zero hours to 180 hours.

Swiss Meteosail featuring DWD synoptic charts and Windfinder forecasts.

Weatherweb Irish coasts.

Simon Keeling’s sail charts.

Bracknell’s Synoptics (via Westwind, Markus Pfister).

Synoptic charts via Zeilen.

European Centre for Medium Range Forecasts. (Reading, UK.)

NCEP’s Medium Range Forecasts.

9 GFS charts on one page. (Wetterzentrale.)

Wind flow films from Meteoblue.

WeatherOnline Wind.

Czech Wind Guru (Vaclav Hornik).

Accuweather sailing forecast.

Meteox forecast.

Metcheck 48 hour forecast.

Metcheck 7 Day forecast.

Metcheck 14 Day forecast.

WeatherOnline Wave Height forecast charts.

Meteosim (Catalunya.) Wave Watch 3 charts.

Wind forecast from Kiel, Germany.

Virtual buoys.

Storm Forecasts. (Experimental site.)

European Weather Awareness Site.

Weather singularities.

Weather Links sites.

Ocean Prediction Centre of NOAA site of weather links.

Starfish Surf Company weather links.

Surf Forecasts site page of weather links.

“Falling Rain’s” worldwide weather.

Metbrief’s weather links.

Tafs & Metars.

ICAO codes; Cork, EICK; Shannon, EINN; Dublin, EIDW; Belfast Aldergrove, EGAA;

EINN Tafs & Metars.

Decode list for METARS & TAFS.

Current TAFs decoded.

Metars, full decode list.

Geoff Butler’s Pilot Weather Course.

Tides.

Tide Prediction, (UK Hydrographic Office).

2014 tide tables for Limerick, Tarbert & Foynes. (in PDF format)

2014 tide tables for Cobh.

2014 tide tables for Galway.

2014 tide tables for Dublin.

2014 tide tables for Londonderry.

2014 tide tables for Belfast.

WXTide32.

Marinas & Moorings.

Irish marina web sites.

Aerial views of Irish marinas.

Kilrush Marina.

Cahersiveen Marina.

Wikipedia list of marinas.

Official notices.

Commissioners of Irish Lights, Notices to Mariners re Lights and Buoys.

Admiralty Notices to Mariners.

Marine Notice No 9 of 2004 re Sea Area Forecasts.

Marine Notices from Dept. of Transport.

Sailing Directions amendments.

Reed’s Almanacs’ amendments.

Inland Waterways Marine Notices.

Mars. (ITU site.)

Official sites.

Department of Marine, division of Dept. of Transport.

Waterways Ireland.

Irish Sailing Association.

Inland Waterways Association of Ireland.

Irish Cruising Club.

The Cruising Association of Ireland.

U.I.M. Monaco.

Shannon Foynes Port Company.

List of national Met services worldwide. (courtesy of DNMI.)

Irish Water Safety Council.

Marine Casualty Investigation Board.

Heritage Boat association.

Irish Marine Federation.

Irish Underwater Council.

Cospas-Sarsat.

Royal Institute of Navigation.

Informatory sites.

Seascapes news programme.

Photographic album of all Irish lighthouses.

West Coast lighthouses.

Irish navigation marks photo album.

Lighthouse data base.

“Inland Waterways Dictionary.”

Dept. of Marine list of links.

Adrian Power’s sailing links.

Irish ships.(Aiden McCabe.)

A guide to Irish islands. (Irish Sea Kayaking Assoc.)

Col Regs. (Nautical Know How Inc.)

Col.Regs. MCA.

IALA Buoyage. (Sailtrain.)

Technical Info. (Reading College.)

Douglas Scale.

Beaufort Scale.

Noonsite, Ireland.

Mars reports.

GMT, UT & the RGO.

Perigees & Apogees.

Grib files.

World-wide magnetic variations.

Online charts.

Moon phase now.

Sun or Moon rise/set tables.

Earth & Moon Viewer.

Navigation lights.

Clare Islands.

Shannon Estuary.

Haby’s meteorological hints.

Yachting and Boating World.

Navis.

Galvanic table.

World sailing directions.

List of Irish representative associations.

Convert measurements.

VHF channels.

Dictionary of boat names.

Training sites.

Sailtrain.

Sea Lights, Capital Sailing.

RNLI training console.

Keith Bater.

Three simple rules.

Boating test questions.

David Pascoe Topics.

Navigation course.

Sail Tale Quizzes.

Peter Blundell’s Lights, Sound and Fog signals.

Col. Reg. tests.

Electrical Training.

Boat logs.

Willi & Tina conquer Lough Derg.

Tina & Willi Klug’s month-long trip on the inland waterways, April 2008.

Lough Derg to Dingle.

Tina & Willi Klug’s inland waterways trip, April 2006.

Tina & Willi’s Inland Waterways trip, September 2006.

Nick & Kathy Bowles’ circumnavigation of Ireland.

Grahame Stronge’s Strangford to The Channel Islands cruise.

Circumnavigating the North Pole westabout.

Paddling the Shannon.

Henk de Velde.

Dashew’s cruising logs.

Knots.

Well illustrated animated knots.

Grog’s animated knots.

I will knot!

Mark Rosenstein’s knots.

Warp to chain splice.

Flags.

Flags and their meanings.

Flags of the world.

Flag meanings.

Maritime flags.

World flags database.

International Code of Signals.

Forums.

Powerboat Ireland forum.

YBW Forums.

Cruisers’ Forum.

Net Weather Forum weather guides. (Very useful.)

Updated news feed.