You can start out here to practice online after you see this slide show.
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/marine/home.htm
- You can start out here to practice online after you see this slide show. http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/marine/home.htm
- The home page for you is here at http://mobile.weather.gov/ This is the page you should bookmark; it provides a menu driven path to all the resources that are formatted for your phone or PDA. We only see the top part of the page here. You should scroll through and see everything available for your area. We've typed in Grand Rapids, MI but you can put in whatever area you like.
- This screen shows you choices for a particular city. In this case, we'll pick detailed 7 day forecast. http://mobile.weather.gov/port_mp_ns.php?CityName=Grand%20Rapids&site=GRR&State=MI&warnzone=MIZ057
- This screen is what you'll see and, while it is not specifically marine oriented, will give you a good overview of weather for the area. http://mobile.weather.gov/port_mp_ns.php?select=1&CityName=Grand%20Rapids&site=GRR&State=MI&warnzone=MIZ057
- If you pick local radar back at this screen, you will get...
- ...this graphical menu which allows you to either choose either a high-res static view or moving forecast view. http://mobile.weather.gov/port_mp_ns.php?select=2&CityName=Grand%20Rapids&site=GRR&State=MI&warnzone=MIZ057&radar_lc=kgrr
- This is the view that you'll see on your screen. It will give you a good overview of precipitation or other severe weather. http://mobile.weather.gov/radarhr.php?radar=kgrr
- If you scroll down further from the main menu page you'll see that there are specific choices for marine weather. http://mobile.weather.gov/marine/marine.htm
- Pick Great Lakes here and you will drill further down into the wealth of NWS information. http://mobile.weather.gov/marine/lake.htm
- Here are reporting cities in the Great Lakes areas that have specific marine weather windows.
- Pick one and a large menu of what is available is presented. http://mobile.weather.gov/marine/grr.htm
- If you pick Open Lake in the previous example, this next menu gives you the lake choices. We'll pick Lake Michigan. http://mobile.weather.gov/marine/glf.htm
- Here's the textual forecast for Lake Michigan that you'd get from going through these menus. If you like, you can bookmark any page you would like to come to directly. http://mobile.weather.gov/pil.php?pil=LOTGLFLM
- Here's an example of the infrared satellite images available. http://mobile.weather.gov/port_sl_hr.php?satid=ECI8
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