This course covers using weather forecasting tools and data to navigate safely in adverse condtions.
- Ocean Prediction Center’s (OPC) warnings analyses, and forecast products
- Secrets to interpreting OPC’s 500 Mb charts
- How to properly display and analyze marine weather analysis and forecast chart information for timely and prudent decision making
- Surface pressure analyses and forecasts
- Wave formation, propagation, and decay and the impact differences between breaking and non-breaking waves
- How to integrate weather reports to minimize duration of encounter of adverse conditions
- “Rules of Thumb” for avoidance
Marine weather communications and weather resources at sea – from HF single sideband radio-facsimile charts to e-mail access and the OPC internet.