GRIB weather files

GRIB data can be accessed from several Web sites. Some are free access, some charge.

The sites that charge usually have more data types available wind, pressure, wave height, temperature etc.

Note: following web site URL's may change!

Supplier	Coverage	Free	Premium Services	Comments
Predict wind	World wide	?	Optional	Some GRIB data free of charge
Norwegian Meteo Institute	World wide	Yes		In Norwegian and English + general weather Features very detailed GRIB data for some areas.
Meto France -French weather service	World wide	No	Yes	One of the original suppliers. Web site is in French
Météconsult		No	Yes	Wind only - Chargeable data, but flexible coverage - other none GRIB data on site - follow marine link
theyr.com	World wide	No ?	Yes	Commercial site
Tidetech	World wide	No ?	Yes	Large coverage and well respected data, used by profesional racing yachts and commercial applications
Non Grib weather sources
Important: Euronav Ltd is not in anyway recommending or supplying any of the above services. Using any of the services is at your own risk and cost.  Please remember a forecast is just one possible prediction of the future weather pattern. Longer range  forecasts will be considerably less reliable than short range forecasts. Some of the data is fairly 'broad stroke' and will not take into account local conditions. Which one is best ? This all depends if you wish to pay, the cost of your communications, and the amount of detail and data types you need. Free data: seaPro Weather routing - for this you only need wind information, for worldwide coverage  try  Global Marine Networks (compressed files - shorter download)) Purchased data GRIB data from  Meto France or the Norwegian weather service (Europe only) offer a more comprehensive service including  sea temperatures, wave heights, currents, smaller cells sizes etc. These data sets tend to cover the needs of commercial applications such as fishing. To use the data you should:-  Download the GRIB data from a weather site (above web sites) Download the file to your seaPro grib file folder (typically C:\program files\euronav\seaPro2000\grib) If the GRIB file has been zipped you will need to unzip it. - download a copy of the WinZip utility from any number of sites  (this is usually shareware) If bz2 , seaPro will automatically decompress the files for you To use the file, open seaPro (if not already running), select "weather" and the "weather (GRIB) from the menu.This will then allow you to pick the GRIB file you wish to view.