Weather resources for Gibraltar to Canaries sail

Blue Note
Marco M.
Wed 8 Oct 2014 00:41
Here are some links on weather for the Gibraltar-Canaries:

Of course Passageweather is always a good source for wind forecast.
http://www.passageweather.com/

Grib files can also be received by email to quert {CHANGE TO AT} saildoc {DOT} com
with this in the body: "send gfs:26N,37N,3W,20W|0.5,0.5|0,3..192|WIND,WAVES "

Text forecast for the Metarea II zone:
http://weather.gmdss.org/II.html
or by email to weather {CHANGE TO AT} mailasail {DOT} com with this in the body" metarea2.txt"

Table for HW tide in Tarifa (scroll down the page)
http://www.tide-forecast.com/locations/Tarifa/tides/latest

Tarifa forecast: http://weather.gmdss.org/Tarifa.html

Following is a map indicating the different area for the Metarea II zones:
I also included a snap-shot of the 5 days current forecast for Friday Oct. 10 that I received by sending an email to quert {CHANGE TO AT} saildoc {DOT} com
with this into the body : " send RTOFS:27N,39N,6W,21W|0.25,0.25|0,12..120|CUR "

Metarea II zones