The home page for the Marine Portal opens with menu choices for features and specific locations.
- The home page for the Marine Portal opens with menu choices for features and specific locations.
- Selecting the wave height button brings up the overall map. You can click on any lake for a specific detail. Using either the arrow controls or the text links in the center portion of the menu, you can get forecast wave height information for a specific timeframe.
- This wave period area shows wave periods in seconds.
- Wind speed and wind direction flagsare shown on this depiction. Further clicks will take you to a specific lake and continued clicks take you to more detailed forecasting for winds in your area.
- Clicking this button will show similar information for forecast wind gusts.
- The weather button brings you to as much detail as you want on general forecast weather - specifically focussed on precipitation.
- Forecast temperatures are shown in this area. Again, you can drill down to specific, pinpoint areas with further clicks.
- Small graphics below the buttons on this page take you to specific enhanced features. In this case, a click here will take you to detailed radar information.
- Here is the full radar map for the area.
- This thumbnail will take you to a page for satellite images of the area.
- Now you are presented with a menu to allow you to view the satellite images with further clarity through various enhancements. We will select the rainbow loop.
- While this is shown as static, it is actually a moving loop graphic showing forecast changes to satellite imagery.
- This thumbnail is used to select further information on current weather hazards.
- If we look at the page here, we can see that there are specific zones that we can click for further information. Clicking on the shoreline band for the eastern edge of the lake, we can select the Saugatuck area (or Muskegon, South Haven, St. Joseph)
- As the result of that selection, we now have a "Marine Point Forecast" narrowed down to a specific area - Saugatuck. Here we can see a graphical or text-based depiction of forecasts, current winds, visibility, temperature - and convenient links for both radar and satellite graphical data.
- For all of the areas explored previously here, we could have clicked on Lake Michigan or used this menu bar.
- All of the information we've seen can also be viewed in more more detail for Lake Michigan (with continued zoom capabilities) by selecting any of these resource areas.
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